Ohio Doctor Ali Salim Charged With Rape and Murder of Pregnant 23-Year-Old

A central Ohio doctor was charged Wednesday with rape and two counts of murder in the death of a pregnant woman, whose body was found last summer in her car after she had headed to a house-cleaning job listed in an online ad.

Ali Salim of New Albany was indicted by a Delaware County grand jury on nine felony counts in the deaths of 23-year-old Deanna Ballman of Pataskala and her unbo child.

Ballman, who lived in Pataskala and was nine-months pregnant, was reported missing the day before her body was found Aug. 1 in a vehicle parked near a road northeast of Columbus. A coroner determined she died of acute heroin intoxication.

Relatives said she had gone to a New Albany house-cleaning job listed in an online classified ad. Her mother said Ballman called saying she wasn't feeling well, and then the call was dropped.

Dead: Deanna Ballman, pictured, was allegedly killed by Salim last summer

Salim, 44, was indicted on two counts each of murder and tampering with evidence, as well as single counts of rape, assault, kidnapping, corrupting another with drugs and abuse of a corpse.

Salim was arrested at home and taken to jail Wednesday to await his arraignment Thursday afteoon, the sheriff and prosecutor said. Court records listed no attoey for him.

In court: Dr. Ali Salim, pictured, waits for deputies to escort him from the courtroom after he pleaded not guilty to charges of killing Ballman on Thursday

Licensure information from the state indicates Salim was bo in Pakistan and trained there at King Edward Medical College, graduating in 1993. He told the State Medical Board of Ohio that his specialties were inteal medicine, emergency medicine and psychiatry.

Unclear: Ballman's family claim she was responding to a housecleaning ad though reports suggest she met with Salim to model for him