A Parkland pediatrician has plead guilty to federal child pornography charges.
49-year-old Michael Mizrachy was arrested on January 12th after deputies searched his home and found that Mizrachy used an instant messenger application to obtain child pornography and communicate with minors.
Among the allegations, police say Mizrachy used a Yahoo e-mail account to keep a disturbing video showing a naked 5 or 6-year-old girl getting abused by a man.
Search warrants for his home led investigators to find photographs of "small children" and teens in their underwear on his iPhone and computer.
Mizrachy became a suspect in June of 2020, after Yahoo altered the federal Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.
In a federal arrest report unsealed in March, Homeland Security Special Agent Eric Stowers wrote that Mizrachy agreed to speak with detectives on October 20th, 2020.
During the interview, Mizrachy told authorities he kept the Yahoo email account for several years as his “hidden secret," before admitting to being sexually excited to children as young as 13 years old."
Mizrachy will be sentenced on January 7th. He faces up to 20 years in prison.