USC Scientist Freed on Bail in Sex Case
A prominent geneticist facing child-molestation charges in Los Angeles and Maryland posted bond and was released from jail Monday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
William French Anderson, 68, was released shortly after 5 a.m. on bond.
On Friday, a court commissioner set Anderson’s bail at $1 million in the Maryland case. Before his arrest Wednesday on the Maryland warrant, Anderson had been free on $600,000 bail in a pending Los Angeles County case.
Anderson is on leave as the director of the Gene Therapy Laboratories at USC.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
