Jeffrey Beck

Beck during his interview with Chris Hansen

**Jeffrey R. Beck** was a potential predator confronted in the Suburban Washington, D.C. edition of **To Catch a Predator**. He is well known for his interest in spanking, prestigious job and, as a pediatrician, also being an early example of a disturbing trend of suspects who would target minors around the same age as the people they worked around.

## Biography

Dr. Beck attended medical school at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Los Angeles and Graduated the Year of 1978 Dr. Jeffrey Beck worked in many states starting in Ohio, and others such as New York, Georgia in the 1990s.

Dr. Beck, an emergency room doctor and pediatrician, who practiced medicine at Memorial Hospital at Easton and Dorchester General Hospital in Cambridge ever since 1999. According to Chris in a Podcast Beck was divorced for serval years his wife he married since he was young right before the sting and Dr. Beck lived in Edgewater Maryland.

## Chatlog and Sting

In 2005 Dr. Beck at the age of 54 used the screen name "Gbabbnsp" to start a chat with a boy he believed to be fourteen years old. Unlike most of the predators caught in Suburban Washington, D.C. in his conversation, Dr. Beck didn't get too graphic about sex. He did inform the young child that he does not want to just meet him for sex, but to be friends, and in the future whatever happens happens. Beck then stated that he wanted to cuddle and make him feel loved, and, safe, cared about,

   Dr Beck comes to the sting house where he knocks on the Door. When Dr. Beck enters the sting house's kitchen, Del Harvey pretends to be the boy, who says he needs to change his pants as he spilled diet coke all over his shorts. Dr. Beck then steps over the dog fence meant to discourage the predators from going over towards the steps when saying he could come up if the boy wants, Chris Hansen stops Beck as he makes a beeline for the decoy upstairs.

Dr. Beck then takes a seat and asserts that he only arrived because he felt horrible that the boy was home alone and had no intention of having sex with the boy. He claims he came over to take him out for lunch. He continued to maintain he wouldn't do anything with the boy. Beck says if you read the chatlog I did not come for sex. Beck gets nervous and begins munching on a cookie and chews faster and faster. As soon as the cameras Dr. Beck has nothing to say and gets up and leaves.

Dr. Beck was never charged, however. Dr. Beck was fired from his job as he was deprived of his medical license in Maryland and California. News outlets from both locally and nationally covered his case in great detail.

## Medical License Revoked

On July 13, 2006, Jeffrey Beck lost his medical license from the Maryland Board of Medicine. The report goes into detail about the sting and includes several pages directly from the Chat Log. The report claimed Doctor Beck's behavior was "predatory grooming behavior" and, an example it gives was how Dr. Beck told the boy to stop smoking, as he said he does not like kissing an ashtray, which means he does not like to kiss people who smoke (the boy).

Also in the report the board describes how Beck would insult patients and overall be very rude and nasty to them. Beck would ask nurses to mislabel pills as "destroyed" when in reality the pills were not destroyed. Beck would also prescribe medicine to family and/or friends most likely to be sold or be used personally, such as Xanax.

The report revoked Dr. Beck's license in Maryland for 10 years at the time, however shortly after the sting Beck tried to move to California and get a medical license there. Beck was almost successful however the Board of Medicine in Maryland heard and contacted the California Board of Medicine and Dr. Beck's lincense was revoked there too.

## 2022 Update

As shown in a podcast in 2022 Chris managed to track down a profile on an app with doctor listings. On the profile was a phone number for Beck, so Chris gave him a call. The conversation was brief, with Beck seeming in a normal mood at first, but grumpily saying "I'm fine" when Chris introduced himself and asked how he was doing. Chris attempted to explain why he was calling, but Beck swiftly hung up. Chris left a message for Beck when he didn't pick up after the second call, but never heard from him. The profile was removed shortly after the conversation.

Dr. Beck according to Hansen, had two roommates whom the two roommates met on an online site geared to spanking fetishes when one was an adult and one was a kid at the age of fourteen. Hansen then describes how one of Doctor Beck's roommate's friend, got caught with child pornography with a child as young as five.

Hansen said in his podcast that if Dr. Beck had done exactly what he did during the sting today, he probably would have been charged with a crime, caught by Hansen with the police right there. But then Hansen mentioned how back in 2005, with no police right there and a different set of laws he got away and there is a couple of reasons why. According to Hansen it was a county issue Dr. Beck was in the wrong county so the local Fairfax Police could not get involved (as in Virginia unlike many states the crime can only be prosecuted where that predator was at the time), but number two the FBI could not get involved as Dr. Beck was really careful not committing to a sexual act, as even though he groomed the decoy he promised not to come for sex. Leaving his intent somewhat vague, as the FBI only goes after cases that they know are, definitely guilty, traveling to have a meeting for sex.

Despite Chris claiming that it is unclear whether Dr. Beck practices medicine today searches of the medical board show it is still revoked, in all the states such as Maryland and California. As it is safe to assume he does not practice medicine, Chris says he is still open to hearing from Dr. Beck and would like to talk to him

## Trivia

- Dr. Beck is the only aired predator from the episode without a Predator Raw segment

- a clip found on YouTube shows extended footage of Beck that was not shown in the broadcast as well as the episode Where are they now?

## Links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Zn\_NL1mWA&t=1864s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdHCv9QjiW8

https://templeoftcap.freeforums.net/thread/21778/doctor-jeffrey-beck

## References

1. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/?pg=Dateline2005

2. https://www.mbp.state.md.us/bpqapp/Orders/H5515606.258.PDF