Word: sonly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stewart denies the accusation. But police have sketched a ghoulish scenario supported by witnesses. On Feb. 6, 1992, Stewart, a medical worker, smuggled a syringe filled with infected blood into the hospital where his son, at the time 11 months old, was being treated for a respiratory ailment, police say. He then allegedly injected the boy with the substance. For years the boy was in and out of hospitals, doctors unable to determine the cause of his illnesses. Then, in May 1996, the boy, who does not belong to any high-risk groups, was found to have full-blown AIDS...
Suspicion fell on Stewart after the boy's mother, who has identified herself as "Jennifer," informed police that Stewart told her not to bother asking for child support because the boy wouldn't live very long. "Jennifer" said she now believes that will come true, even though her son, who has become virtually deaf, has responded to a daily dose of about 10 medications...
Prosecutors chose the assault charge because it carries a penalty of up to life in prison; attempted murder is limited to 15 years. In the Roman myth, one of Saturn's children escapes to depose him; in Missouri, Stewart could be put away for life by the son he may have tried to destroy...
...Toronto Stock Exchange halted trading of his parent company, Seagram, to allow officials to deny a whirl of rumors: that Seagram was shedding its Tropicana juice division; that Bronfman might sell Universal to DreamWorks; and, last and most incredible, that patriarch Edgar Bronfman Sr. was essentially firing his own son...
That may sound strange, but father and son have not spoken with one voice of late. Last month, while Junior was denying that his father was distressed over his decision to sell the company's 25% stake in DuPont in order to buy into Hollywood, Senior suggested in an interview with W magazine that trading nylon for celluloid was a terrible idea. His chagrin is understandable: the DuPont stock, worth $8.8 billion when Seagram sold it in 1995 to pay for its $5.7 billion purchase of Universal, has soared about $9 billion in value. Seagram's stock lags the market...