Parents are reeling after a Johnson County doctor is charged with sexually exploiting kids

Parents across the region are shocked after federal charges allege a Johnson County pediatric neurologist tried to produce explicit content including children. Dr. Brian Aalbers is charged with attempting to produce and possessing child sexual abuse images.


Until recently, two of Sarah and Brandon Howland’s three daughters were patients of pediatric neurologist Dr. Brian Aalbers. The girls, ages 2 and 3, saw Aalbers at Overland Park Regional Medical Center on a semiregular basis. Sarah Howland said other than being a little awkward and talking fast, Aalbers was good at his job.

“He was really knowledgeable, and he found some stuff in their MRI that another neurology clinic missed,” she said. “He just seemed unorganized but he was never inappropriate or anything.”

But the Howlands, and potentially hundreds of other patients, suddenly lost care when Aalbers was charged in federal court with attempting to produce and possessing child sexual abuse images. The news of Aalbers’ charges has shocked parents, forcing many to question a doctor they once trusted.

“It just made me sick to my stomach and (we) initially didn't have any of the details,” Brandon Howland said. “So my mind just started racing as to what it could, what it could not have been.”