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Jul 1, 2009 8:55 pm US/Pacific

Doc Gets House Arrest In Bay Area Teen's Suicide

 CBS 5 CrimeWatch

REDWOOD CITY (BCN) ― A Colorado doctor who illegally prescribed anti-depressants to a Stanford University student who later committed suicide was sentenced Wednesday in San Mateo County Superior Court to house arrest at his Colorado home.

The sentence for Christian Hageseth, 68, was lighter than the nine months in San Mateo County jail he could have received for pleading no contest in February to illegally practicing medicine without a California license, according to Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.

The medicine Hageseth prescribed over the Internet was for 19-year-old Stanford student John McKay in June 2005. McKay committed suicide two months later.

Hageseth was sentenced before Judge James Ellis today to spend nine months under house arrest with an electronic home monitoring device at his home in Larimer County, Colo., Wagstaffe said.

With credit for time served—Hageseth spent 49 days in jail before posting $100,000 bail—he will likely be under house arrest for about seven and a half months.

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