Ex-North Texas family practice doctor on the run in promotion of prostitution case
A former North Texas doctor who has a conviction for interference with child custody remained on the run Thursday, wanted on a Dallas charge of promoting prostitution.
Elizabeth Rohr, 60, was recently added to the Dallas County Sheriff’s Most Wanted List after she fled the area in December 2019.
Rohr has been wanted for a bond forfeiture since Dec. 26, 2019, according to Dallas County Sheriff Department records.
Rohr had listed addresses in Roanoke, Southlake, Denton and Dallas.
In 2013, a Dallas County grand injury indicted Rohr on a charge of aggravated promotion of prostitution. The indictment noted that she “did knowingly manage, own, invest in, finance, control and supervise a prostitution enterprise that used at least two prostitutes.”
Rohr, who had been a doctor for 19 years, had her license revoked on June 8, 2007, for the child custody interference conviction, according to Texas Medical Board records.
Before her license was revoked, Rohr had actively practiced family medicine in Texas for 13 years, according to the TMB. Her secondary specialty was emergency medicine.
Medical board officials require doctors to self-report criminal offenses. Under criminal history for her, Rohr had reported none in 2007. The TMB obtained her criminal history from the Texas Department of Public Safety.
In 2004, Rohr drew national attention when authorities issued an Amber Alert for her five children after she lost a custody battle and faced charges of abusing horses.
She was supposed to have delivered the children to her ex-husband Craig Saunders’ home, but fled. She was arrested days later in San Benito, in South Texas. The children were found unharmed in a nearby hotel
A few months later, Rohr was given probation by a jury, but a Denton County judge sentenced her to six months in jail for contempt of court, according to Denton County criminal court records.
That same year, the UPI reported that Rohr was sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty to charges of mistreating horses that were found neglected and malnourished on her Southlake property.
This story was originally published September 3, 2020 at 5:34 PM.
