Boys adopted by Dr. Daniel Carleton Gajdusek

Incident date: 1996 Jan 1

Child placement type: Adoption

Between 38 and 56 Melanesian and Micronesian boys and girls were brought to the USA by nobel prize winner D. Carleton Gajdusek, at least one boy claimed to have been sexually abused. Prosecutors said more were abused. Gajdusek claimed the boys were adopted, no records were found. Boys may have come to US on student visas.

Parent topics: abused adoptees

Documents

Title	Publication date
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, MD, Nobelist Who Showed Transmissibility of Chronic Neurodegenerative Diseases, Dies at 85	2009 Jan 15
The Genius and the Boys	2009
D. Carleton Gajdusek dies at 85; Nobel Prize winner identified exotic disease, was unrepentant pedophile	2008 Dec 18
D. Carleton Gajdusek, Who Won Nobel For Work on Brain Disease, Is Dead at 85	2008 Dec 15
Nobel Laureate Gets 18-Month Term for Abuse	1997 Apr 30
Sex Abuse Case Casts Pall on Nobel Scientist	1997 Feb 23
Nobel Scientist Pleads Guilty to Abusing Boy	1997 Feb 19
The fall of a family man	1996 Aug 5
DOCTOR'S WORK IN EXOTIC LANDS LED TO NOBEL PRIZE, SUSPICIONS ABOUT RELATIONS WITH CHILDREN	1996 Apr 26
Nobel Laureate Is Accused of Child Abuse	1996 Apr 6