Las Vegas doctor taped himself having sex with sedated girl, woman, police say

A Las Vegas doctor facing nearly a dozen child pornography charges videotaped himself having sex with a sedated, underage girl in his office, according to Las Vegas police.

The investigation started when Dr. Binh Minh Chung’s wife got suspicious and snooped through her husband’s text messages and computers, according to an arrest report released Wednesday. The wife found several videos of her husband having sex with other women and the underage girl.

Chung, a 41-year-old family practitioner, is charged with 10 counts of possession of child pornography and one count of using or permitting the use of a child for the production of pornography, according to court and jail records. His medical license has been suspended.

Clark County’s Chief Deputy District Attorney Jim Sweetin said he anticipates additional charges being filed.

Las Vegas Justice Court Senior Judge James Bixler ordered Chung to be held on $550,000 bail Wednesday morning.

The girl, along with Chung’s wife, reported the abuse and videos to police on June 4, according to the arrest report.

Police have not released the girl’s age, but she told investigators that Chung was her family doctor and had convinced her to get treatment for acne. Sometime in July 2014, Chung picked her up from her home about 10 p.m. and drove her to his office for her third treatment, according to the report.

She received a shot in her arm and passed out, she told police, but kept going in and out of consciousness.

The first time she could remember coming to, the report said, the girl realized she was alone in an exam room, that her pants were off and that her feet were in stirrups. She lost consciousness again, the report said.

At another point she woke up and vomited.

When she fully came to, about 3 a.m. the next day, it was from Chung waking her up, according to the report. The doctor told her she’d had a bad reaction to the acne treatment and drove her home.

The report then skips ahead to June of this year, after the girl had gone to police.

Detectives asked her why she waited nearly a year to tell police. The girl said a conversation with her mother helped jog her memories of that night.

Her mother believed she herself had been “drugged and raped” by Dr. Chung, according to the report. And the mother learned that after the doctor’s wife had contacted her.

Once the daughter heard that, she told police, she started to remember details from the night Chung took her to his office.

Police then obtained search warrants for Chung’s work and home computers. They confiscated several computers and hard drives, the report said, and noticed a bottle labeled “Ketamine.”

Ketamine, a so-called club drug, acts on the central nervous system and can cause changes in mood and awareness. Ketamine is also known as Special K, K, Vitamin K and Jet.

Because the warrant was limited to seizing electronics, police photographed the bottle, seized the computers and left.

When detectives came back the following day with a warrant for sedatives and narcotics, Chung’s office was back open for business with new computers. The staff, according to the report, were told that computers had been stolen in a burglary the night before.

The bottle labeled “Ketamine” was no longer in the office, according to the report.

While searching through Chung’s computers and hard drives, police found 10 videos of child pornography, the report said.

Police arrested Chung on Saturday and booked him into the Clark County Detention Center.

Chung declined interview requests, according to Las Vegas police, who run the detention center.

The Nevada Board of Medical Examiners suspended his license Tuesday.

Medical board officials suspended Chung’s license because the public and his patients are at risk of imminent or continued harm, according to board documents.

A hearing has been scheduled for July 27 on the case against Chung, said Todd Rich, deputy executive director of the medical board.

It’s not the first time Chung has been accused of a sex-related crime.

He was arrested in 2006 in connection with an open and gross lewdness with a teenager case, court records show.

But the outcome of that case is unclear. Court records don’t show whether he was convicted or acquitted.

The medical board filed a letter of concern against the doctor after the 2006 criminal case was opened. Chung’s license was not suspended during that investigation, Rich said.

Chung graduated from the University of Nevada School of Medicine in 2001 and completed his residency at the school’s affiliated hospitals in Las Vegas, according to medical board records. He was first licensed by the Nevada medical board in 2005.

It appears that Chung was operating his practice without a current business license, according to the Nevada Secretary of State’s office. His license was revoked in 2013.

A woman who answered the phone at Chung’s office at 8785 W. Warm Springs Road, near the intersection at Durango Drive, said all of the doctor’s appointments have been cancelled and that no other physicians have been designated to see his patients.

Detectives are asking anyone concerns they or their children may have been hurt by Chung to contact the Metro Sexual Assault Section at 702-828-3421.

Reporter David Ferrara contributed to this story.

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