Sexual abuse conviction

Anderson was arrested on July 30, 2004, on allegations of sexual abuse of a minor. He was convicted and jailed on July 19, 2006 of three counts of lewd acts upon a child under the age of 14 for the years 1997 through 2001 and one count of continuous sexual abuse. On February 2, 2007, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison and ordered to pay $68,000 in restitution, fines, and fees[5]; he had faced a maximum of 18 years for molesting the now 19-year-old girl, the daughter of his colleague, in his home when she was 10 to 15 years old.[6] Jurors were shown reconstructed e-mails and played an edited tape-recorded conversation where the girl angrily confronted Anderson, who said, "I just did it, just something in me was just evil."

In February, 2005 Anderson was also charged in Montgomery County, Maryland with molesting a Silver Spring, Maryland boy for three years in the 1980s. Prosecutors dropped those charges, citing insufficient evidence under Maryland law.