Raises some interesting questions: Putting The Brain On Trial
He was a schoolteacher, a husband, a father. Then he became a pedophile preoccupied with sex.
Doctors who treated him at the University of Virginia hospital in 2000 believe that the man’s powerful sex addiction was caused by an egg-sized tumor in his brain.
“It turned out he was a guy who had made it into his 40s without having any problem with this,” said Dr. Russell Swerdlow, a UVa associate professor of neurology. “He had a brain tumor that was damaging the part of the brain that controls impulse.”
Once the tumor was removed, the man’s sexual obsession disappeared. Swerdlow believes this is the first known case to link damage of the frontal lobe with pedophilia.