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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Federal prosecutors announced Wednesday that a doctor who used to work at UPMC Children’s Hospital pleaded guilty to charges of child pornography. Fifty-three-year-old Ashok Panigrahy knew that in November of 2022, he had material that showed a minor being sexually exploited. Panigrahy will be sentenced on July 17th, and he could receive up to twenty years in jail, a $250,000 fine, or both.