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The FBI is investigating whether other children may have been sexually abused by a Nobel Prize winner accused of molesting a 15-year-old boy he brought to the United States from Micronesia.
Dr. Daniel Gajdusek, 72, who won the prize in 1976 for his work on infectious diseases, was charged Thursday with child abuse and unnatural perverted sex practices, FBI spokesman Larry Foust said.
Gajdusek, chief of the Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, was held in lieu of $1 million bail.
His accuser, now a college student, was living with Gajdusek at the time of the alleged abuse, between 1987 and 1991.
The young man’s allegations prompted the arrest.
