Former Marietta College professor killed in prison

MARIETTA — A former Marietta College professor sentenced to more than two centuries in prison on child pornography and prostitution charges in 2003 was killed Sunday in a West Virginia prison.

Eugene Robert Anderson, 66, was eight years into his sentence for more than 130 charges relating to child pornography and prostitution in Washington and Wood counties. He had yet to begin serving time on the most recent conviction of sexual abuse of two minors, to which he pleaded guilty in December 2015 in Kanawha Circuit Court and was sentenced to a minimum additional 60 years in prison after the first 180 years for the previous cases.

Lawrence Messina, director of communications for the West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, said the fatal incident occurred at the Mount Olive Correctional Complex. An open investigation by the West Virginia State Police continues into Anderson’s death.

“The facility will remain in lockdown as the state troopers do whatever they believe is prudent to investigate what happened,” said Messina.

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