Ali Salim
The Columbus Dispatch
Doctor sentenced to 36 years for killing pregnant woman
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DELAWARE, Ohio — A doctor who admitted to killing a pregnant woman and her unborn daughter in the summer of 2012 was sentenced today to serve 36 years and 4 months in prison.
Ali Salim, 44, pleaded guilty in October to killing 23-year-old Deanna Ballman after she answered a Craigslist ad he’d placed for a prostitute. Ballman was nine months pregnant at the time of her death. Her unborn daughter, whom she’d planned to name Mabel, also was killed…
Until his arrest, Salim was an emergency-department psychiatrist at Knox Community Hospital in Mount Vernon. The State Medical Board suspended his medical license in April. Salim is not a U.S. citizen, and could be deported to his native Pakistan after he is released from prison…
Excerpted from:Doctor sentenced to 36 years for killing pregnant woman
By Laura Arenschield
The Columbus Dispatch
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