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From Xinhau news: They met after the girl's family moved to Los Angeles from China and her mother began working for Anderson at his lab. Anderson had been a coach and mentor to the girl since she was 9, when her mother, Anderson's second-in-command at his USC laboratory, asked him to help the girl.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael E. Pastor handed down the sentence, rejecting the 70-year-old researcher's arguments that his imprisonment would deprive humanity of the benefits of his medical efforts. He and his wife, an accomplished surgeon, said they chose not to have children to devote themselves to medicine.
After he was charged in Los Angeles, a Maryland man claimed that Anderson had molested him 20 years earlier. Anderson was charged then with abusing the boy, but Maryland prosecutors dropped the case.
From Los Angeles Times: Anderson's sex abuse charges followed other setbacks. By 2003, his USC lab had lost most of its funding. Gene therapy had not lived up to the expectations that followed Anderson's early success.
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