Chicago-area ex-doctor gets prison for swapping drugs for sex

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Chicago-area ex-doctor gets prison for swapping drugs for sex

By Fiona Ortiz CHICAGO (Reuters) - A former doctor who worked at hospitals in the Chicago area was sentenced on Tuesday to 70 months in federal prison for swapping Vicodin and other prescription medications for sex through advertisements on Craigslist. Joshua D. Baron, 40, who was a pediatric neurologist, pleaded guilty in March to providing some 149 prescriptions for drugs such as Adderall, Xanax, Percocet and OxyContin to 16 people, in exchange for sex or cash, the United States Attorney's office said in a statement. Baron's victims were women and he used the pseudonym Robert Crumb - the name of the satirical cartoonist - in his advertisements in the "Casual Encounters" and "Men Who Would Pay" sections of Craigslist, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. At the sentencing hearing, Baron said he was deeply regretful for what he had done and blamed his acts on a sex addiction connected to abuse he said he had suffered.

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