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Last Friday former Master of Yale’s Saybrook College Antonio C. Lasaga, a notable geologist, was sentenced in state court to serve 20 years in prison for molesting a young boy whom he was mentoring. Yet the real surprise came prior to the sentencing, when Lasaga was defended by three of his eminent professorial peers, including Harvard’s own Dudley Professor of Economic Geology Heinrich D. Holland...
Hiroshi Ohmoto, one of the other professors who spoke on behalf of Lasaga, said Lasaga had a tendency to spread himself too thin with academic and social obligations...
Despite the pleas for leniency, Fasano said Lasaga could not go unpunished. The judge reminded the professors that there was a victim...
...Lasaga was also sentenced to 15 years in federal prison last Wednesday for the possession and receipt of child pornography. This sentence will run concurrently with Friday’s 20-year sentence...
...former housemaster for Saybrook College—one of Yale’s 12 residential colleges—Lasaga was charged with possessing and receiving child pornography...