State Police have arrested a Niagara County pediatric dentist on sex abuse charges.

Troopers say 57-year-old Louis Surace of Lockport was charged with sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child for conduct that is being investigated between 2008 and December 2018 involving a minor.

They say they received a tip from Child Protective Services earlier this month regarding unwanted sexual contact with a child under the age of 17.

"We have to look at cases like this with extreme importance only because there is a sexual nature to them. We have a victim and — like any case — we take with a high level of professionalism but also the fact that this is a doctor who is practicing dentistry in Lockport, New York and is around kids in his profession,” said Trooper James O’Callaghan, New York State Police.

Surace was arraigned and is being held on bail.