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July 31, 2004
"Father Of Gene Therapy" Arrested
This is sad and terrible news. I'll let the news article tell the story:
"Gene therapy pioneer Dr. William French Anderson was arrested Friday on charges of sexually molesting a girl over a four-year period, authorities said.
Anderson, 67 -- an internationally prominent University of Southern California scientist known as "the father of gene therapy" -- was arrested about 8:30 a.m. at his San Marino home one day after prosecutors filed a criminal complaint alleging six felony counts of assault, said Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office." ...
"The six felony counts against Anderson include one count of continuous sexual abuse against a person under 14 and five counts for lewd acts with a child, Gibbons said.
If convicted on all counts, Anderson could receive up to 56 years in state prison, Gibbons said.
Authorities said the girl, now 17, was about 10 when the alleged abuse started."
From the Guardian, some background on the Doctor:
In 1979, Anderson led a team of scientists with the National Institutes of Health in curing a genetic flaw in the cells of mice. By 1990, his laboratory had performed the first gene therapy experiment on a 4-year-old child with a rare genetic disease that prevents babies from developing their own immune systems.
Posted by Dave at July 31, 2004 08:58 PM
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