Lasaga submits 'no contest' plea
Former prof abused boy for over five years
Former Yale geology professor and Saybrook College Master Antonio C. Lasaga pleaded no contest Jan. 4 to charges he repeatedly molested a now 16-year-old New Haven boy for more than five years prior to his 1998 arrest.
As part of the plea bargain worked out with prosecutors, the state dropped 10 of the original 16 charges against Lasaga, leaving two counts of sexual assault, two counts of risk of injury to a minor, and two counts of employing a minor in an obscene performance -- all felonies. Lasaga, 52, faces a maximum of 110 years in prison.
The plea came after a judge...
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