"We said we would make an assessment of thesituation in the New Year, when more informationbecomes available, and that is still the case," hesaid.
Donovan told reporters the day of his arrest onsexual assault charges, "A month ago he wasleading what most of us would view as a rich, fulland successful life as one of the world's leadinggeochemists. He woke up the next morning and hadit all come crashing down."
Lasaga is married with two grown sons. Asprofessor of geology and geophysics at Yale,Lasaga taught three classes, was involved inresearch and served as the director of graduatestudies for his department.
Outside of the university, he is an associateeditor of the American Journal of Science, editorof Chemical Geology, a councillor of theGeochemical and is a life fellow of theMineralogical Society of America.
Lasaga also taught chemistry at Harvard in the1970s, and became a lecturer in 1976. He thentaught at Penn State before coming to Yale in1984.
Lasaga's first hearing for the childpornography case is scheduled for Feb. 9.
--Associated Press reports were used in thereporting of his story.