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Dear Stupid,
Well here you are again, dogging me around, the anonymous sniper who I punched in the mouth and he got his feelings so hurt that he began to cry and now he can't let it go. I can tell by your semi-literate writing style and your repeated use of "Look it up" that you are the same cowardly half-wit from a couple of other threads.
Calling me a "dickhead" and Jenkins a "fucktard" simply points to how pathetic, self-loathing and miserable you are. Why don't you actually pony up a $35 Premium membership and stick with one name instead of hiding behind 12 different aliases. You've got more personalities than Sybil.
I don't care to indulge your ignorance of tort law, but if you have any legal citations, briefs, or recent case law on civil action pertaining to the subject at hand, then I think it is incumbent upon you to "look it up" and post the results. But you won't. You wouldn't know at which end of a law library index system or Lexus search to begin.
And yes, stupid people should not breed. You are an object lesson for all to see.
LOS ANGELES - A renowned geneticist was convicted Wednesday of molesting a colleague's daughter, starting at age 10 when the girl took martial arts classes at his home.
William French Anderson, 69, is widely credited as the "father of gene therapy," a promising but controversial experimental medical treatment that involves injecting healthy genes into sick patients. His successful treatment of a patient this way in 1990 launched the field.
Anderson was convicted of one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child under age 14 and three counts of committing a lewd act on a child.
He showed no reaction as the verdicts were read. He sat stoically, staring straight ahead, his head held high.
His wife, a renowned surgeon, sat in the front row of the spectator section behind him with her eyes downcast and fists clenched in her lap.
Despite pleas by Anderson's lawyer that he should stay free to continue his scientific work, Superior Court Judge Michael E. Pastor ordered him jailed.
"While Dr. Anderson is statutorily eligible for probation, he is clearly facing possible decades in prison," the judge said. Prosecutors said the scientist faces a maximum 22 years in prison.
In ordering Anderson's incarceration, the judge also cited an e-mail Anderson wrote to his victim suggesting he might commit suicide and saying he had bought a gun and ammunition.
Anderson's lawyer, Barry Tarlow, told the judge his client was not a danger to himself or anyone else and would not flee.
He also vowed to appeal the verdicts "to the highest court in the land. We will not rest until justice is done."
Anderson had been free on bond during the trial.
The judge ordered a psychiatric study of Anderson before his Nov. 17 sentencing.
Co-prosecutor James Garrison said the judge can consider a wide variety of factors, including Anderson's work, in sentencing the scientist.
"We all acknowledge the contributions he has made in the past. But what's important now is the damage he did to the victim," Garrison said.
Co-prosecutor Cathryn Brougham said she had conveyed the verdict to the victim, who is now 19, and "she is very pleased."
Jurors sent word to the judge that they did not want to speak to the media after the verdicts were read.
Prosecutors accused Anderson of molesting the girl from 1997 to 2001. They said the abuse began during Saturday morning taekwondo lessons at his home in San Marino, a wealthy suburb east of Los Angeles.
"There was the secret dirty side to that relationship," Brougham told jurors in her opening statement at the three-week trial.
Anderson has been placed on leave from his position as director of the Gene Therapies Laboratories at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine.
Anderson has published hundreds of articles in scholarly journals and won numerous awards for his work. He was Time magazine's runner-up for Man of the Year in 1995 and launched the scientific journal Human Gene Therapy.
Tarlow had argued that his client was a kindly mentor to the girl and was being smeared by her mother, whom he said wanted to assume Anderson's position at USC.
Tarlow said that while Anderson was brilliant in the lab, he lacked social skills, as evidenced by e-mails introduced at trial in which he wrote about pondering suicide if the girl's allegations became public.
"Nothing about having a 176 IQ means you have good judgment," Tarlow said during the trial
"As I approached the friendly abyss, I grew aware of a melodious unity of sounds rising like vapor from a small mining town that lay at my feet, in a fold of the valley. ... What I heard was but the melody of children aqt play, nothing but that, and so limpid was the air that within this vapor of blended voices, majestic and minute, remote and magically near, frank and divinely enigmatic - one could hear now and then, as if released, an almost articulate spurt of vivid laughter, or the crack of a bat, or the clatter of a toy wagon, but it was all really too far for the eye to distinguish any movement in the lightly etched streets. I stood listening to that musical vibration from my lofty slope, to those flashes of separate cries with a kind of demure murmur for background, and then I knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita's absebse from my side, but the absence of her voice from that concord."
"I know you are, but what am I?"
How dare that Eckerd employee call the police to accuse these people of child pornography!! How many pictures did this employee have when they were a child in a bath tub or in a pool naked that their parents took. I know that my parents took pictures of all of us when were babies in the bath tub. There is nothing wrong with that. This employee owes this family an apology for the hell he/she put them through. As far as DCFS.... goes they suck!! I know first hand how they try to convince that child that their parents are hurting them. My daughter who is now 22 told me how when the police and DCFS came to my house they were telling her that it was ok for her to tell them how I have abused her and the other kids. My daughter kept telling them that I never hurt them. They kept telling her that they knew she was protecting me and its ok for her to tell them that I have abused them. DCFS has too much power and it should be taken away from them. They love to ruins peoples lives!! I truly hate them!!