Pakistani doctor practicing in Jacksonville sought sex with teen girls
Friday, February 13, 2009 at 9:12AM
Updated on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 11:03AM by
Kay B. Day, Editor
The arrest of a doctor from Pakistan who practiced at a prestigious facility in Jacksonville raises questions about the vetting process for doctors from some other countries.
Pakistan flag from CIA Factbook.(Jacksonville, Fla.)—When Dr. Irfan Nawaz, 32, was arrested in Minnesota, he had traveled to St. Cloud to meet a girl he believed was 15 years old. He planned to have sex with her. Nawaz admitted he’d chatted with girls online, and he told the judge during the trial in February that American girls were promiscuous and stupid. The Florida Times Union reported remarks from his confession to officials: " ‘The only thing that I was thinking was I was laughing at how stupid girls are in this country, and I thanked God I did not marry someone from this country,’ Nawaz, a native of Pakistan, says on one recording. He told Circuit Judge John Merrett on Friday he was sorry but said those things because they were true.” Nawaz was a board certified internal medicine doctor practicing at Mayo Clinic.
