A Winchester father and son have been charged with child pornography

Posted on October 26, 2024 by Josh L

A Winchester father and son have been charged with child pornography

A former Winchester doctor and his father have been charged with child abuse, possession of child pornography and using a camera hidden in an electrical outlet to film a man in the shower, officials said.

Bradford D. Ferrick, 33, and his father, David B. Ferrick, 67, were charged in September to a grand jury following an investigation by Winchester police and state police assigned to Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s office, authorities said.

The men pleaded not guilty in Middlesex Superior Court to a total of 23 charges, including destroying evidence. The elder Ferrick, who is also accused of incest, is at large Bail is set at $85,000, according to the release.

According to prosecutors, the father and son sold videos of themselves having sex on the website OnlyFans, earning about $30,000 for the videos, which were advertised as “real” incest.

Bradford Ferrick also appears in US District Court in Boston on child pornography charges, according to reports. According to the data, he pleaded not guilty and is in custody pending trial.

Then authorities searched the apartment Ferrick was renting in Amherst and seized hidden cameras, including one designed to be worn as a bracelet, according to an FBI affidavit. The bracelet contained a memory card with two video recordings of the boys during medical examinations, the affidavit states.

Winchester police began investigating the Ferricks last year. During the search of the Winchester house According to court filings, where Ferrick and his parents live, authorities seized thousands of sexually explicit images and videos, some of which depicted victims as young as 6 years old.

According to court records, authorities also found footage from a camera hidden inside an electrical outlet that captured images of a man taking a shower. Prosecutors say David Ferrick and his son exchanged messages about the images and tried to improve their quality by applying water repellent to the camera.

Bradford Ferrick was first arrested in 2023, and after he was charged in Woburn District Court, he allegedly went home and remotely accessed his iPhone, which was seized by law enforcement, prosecutors said in court documents. “When he did this, he remotely wiped all data from the device,” prosecutors said.

Bradford Ferrick graduated from the State University of New York at Syracuse in 2022 and began his family medicine residency at Baystate Franklin Family Medicine in July 2022, including rotations at facilities in Greenfield, Deerfield and Springfield.

He was fired from Baystate Health last year and is no longer licensed to practice medicine in Massachusetts, according to the Massachusetts State Board of Medicine.

Franklin Superior Court also charges Bradford Ferrick with secretly recording a patient undergoing a genital exam in 2022 while he was a doctor at Baystate Medical Center in Greenfield. The case is pending.

John R. Ellement can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him @JREbosglobe.