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Former St. Louis Area Pediatrician Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Exchanging Prescriptions for S*x Acts

ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge John A. Ross on Tuersday sentenced a former St. Louis County, Missouri pediatrician to 20 years in prison for prescribing pain pills and other controlled substances in exchange for s*x acts, n**e photos or cash.

From at least 2014 through May of 2023, Craig A. Spiegel, now 70, exploited his position to obtain cash, s*xual acts or s*xual photographs from at least 19 patients, many of whom he began treating as children. Spiegel illegally distributed an “astronomical amount of drugs,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Amy Sestric said in court. Rather than referring patients with a substance use disorder to treatment, Spiegel exploited their disease for his own gratification and prescribed dangerous combinations of addictive drugs to those vulnerable victims. Spiegel pressured and harassed reluctant patients via text messages and became s*xually violent with at least one victim, Sestric said. Spiegel met one of his victims when she was only about seven or eight years old and initiated s*xual contact years later by preying on her vulnerability when she was going through a divorce, a sentencing memo filed by Sestric said.

Spiegel admitted prescribing controlled substances to his co-defendant, April Bingham, in exchange for s*xual favors. He knew that she was selling some of the drugs, and that she was addicted. He prescribed drugs to Bingham using the names of friends and relatives in part to take advantage of their insurance benefits. Bingham then introduced Spiegel to others who paid him or performed s*x acts in exchange for controlled substances.

Spiegel’s crimes were only thwarted by an investigation that began with the Bridgeton Police Department. After his indictment, Spiegel lied in an April 2025 hearing in U.S. District Court in St. Louis while accusing police officers of illegally searching his cellular phone. Spiegel falsely claimed, in court and under oath, that he had not signed a consent form authorizing the search of his cellular phone until after the cellular phone data had been extracted by investigators.


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Joseph Duggar, one of the stars of the TLC reality show "19 Kids and Counting," has been arrested for alleged s*x crimes involving a child. (Adobe Stock Photo) https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/nation-world/joseph-duggar-arrested-19-kids-and-counting-alleged-child-s*x-crimes/507-13e24d40-482b-4f84-95fe-9a2db37a1c38?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_KSDK_News