July 31, 2004

DAMN PRIESTS:

Gene Therapy Pioneer Arrested for Molesting Girl (Dan Whitcomb, 7/31/04, Reuters)

A Southern California scientist known as the "Father of Gene Therapy" for his pioneering work in that field was arrested on Friday and accused of molesting a young girl over a four-year period.

W. French Anderson was taken into custody at his home in the exclusive Los Angeles suburb of San Marino on Friday morning as sheriffs deputies served him with a search warrant for the premises.

Deputies also searched his offices at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine and removed computers. Authorities declined to say what evidence, if any, was seized in those raids.

Anderson is accused of molesting the girl, a family friend who is now 17, over a four-year period starting in 1997 while he coached her in Karate, said Sandi Gibbons, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.

Gibbons said the girl was 12 years old in 1997.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 31, 2004 6:01 PM
Comments

A Democrat I hope.

Posted by: genecis at July 31, 2004 8:07 PM

If she was 12 any time in 1997, she's at least 18 now.

Posted by: Steve at August 1, 2004 6:20 AM

The key being that W. French Anderson was arrested.

The problem with the Catholic priests wasn't that some of them were pedophiles, it was that the Church bureaucracy knew about it, but instead of stopping it, the way any normal follower of Christ would, they kept transferring these monsters, so that they could have fresh, unwary prey.

As if that weren't enough, the Catholic Church refuses, at the highest level, to admit to any wrongdoing, and have kept the very officials responsible for shielding the ravening criminal priests from justice.

Despite the good Karol Jozeph Wojtyla* has done in the international arena, Satan overtook the Catholic Church on his watch, and the old Pole won't, (or is no longer capable of), doing anything about it.

My contempt for the leadership of the Catholic Church is complete and deep.


*Pope John Paul II

Posted by: Michael Herdegen at August 1, 2004 2:26 PM

Yes, Michael.

Orrin's selective postings about failings does his preaching more harm than good.

And is odd from a person who believes all of us are fallen.

Evidently, though all of us fall, some are to be allowed to do so without comment.

Posted by: Harry Eagar at August 2, 2004 12:46 AM
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