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Robert Cummings, TV and Movie Actor, Dies at 80

By: MYRNA OLIVER

Robert Cummings, the perennially youthful bachelor photographer of the 1950s television series
"The Bob Cummings Show," died Sunday at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in
Woodland Hills.

Cummings, 80, died of kidney failure and complications of pneumonia, hospital spokeswoman
Louella Benson said. The actor, who also was in advanced stages of Parkinson's Disease, was
admitted to the hospital Nov. 18.

The actor was born Clarence Robert Orville Cummings on June 10, 1910, in Joplin, Mo.

Although he achieved his greatest fame with his television series in the 1950s and 1960s,
Cummings continued to make occasional movies in those years.

In his long-running television series, "The Bob Cummings Show," Cummings portrayed Bob
Collins, a studio photographer who photographed--and dated--the world's most beautiful models.

In his personal life, He Married five times, Cummings quipped at his 80th birthday party last June:
"I'm trying to catch up with Mickey Rooney."

Cummings married his fifth wife, Janie, of Nashville, Tenn., in August, 1989, after she wrote a fan
letter that came to his attention. He is survived by his wife; three sons, Robert, Bob Jr. and
Anthony; four daughters, Laurel, Michelle, Melinda Cameron and Patricia Goldhamer and nine
grandchildren.

Man Gets 12 Years in Child Sex-Photos Case

By: ANNA CEKOLA

A former university professor was sentenced to 12 years in state prison Wednesday in a sexual
molestation case sparked when photographs showing graphic abuse of a Newport Beach girl were
found discarded on a Los Angeles street.

Six months after a highly publicized hunt led to their arrest, Ruskjer and Bacilio pleaded guilty in
April to multiple felony counts of sexually abusing a Newport Beach girl, then 2, and taking
sexually explicit photographs of a child.
The two, were arrested Oct. 8.

Police arrested Ruskjer at Detroit Metropolitan Airport where he had just landed on a flight from
Tokyo, while Bacilio, a former secretary for an Ontario medical supply company, was arrested at
McCarran Airport in Las Vegas while preparing to fly to Chicago.

Other tips led authorities to the identity of the girl and her parents in Newport Beach.

"I think of my sweet little innocent 2-year-old bound by the wrists and the ankles being sexually
molested by these two," one of the parents wrote in the letter.

Authorities said the photographs were taken Jan. 9, 1993, at Ruskjer's home while Bacilio was
baby-sitting the child. Detectives say the girl has no memory of being assaulted.

Father Who Killed Alleged Abuser on TV Avoids Jail

By: ASSOCIATED PRESS

A father who shot and killed a man suspected of abducting and sexually abusing his son was
sentenced today to five years' probation and ordered to perform community service work.

Calling the shooting a tragedy, Judge Frank Saia suspended a sentence of seven years at hard
labor for Leon Gary Plauche, who pleaded no contest on May 16 to manslaughter in the death of
Jeffrey Doucet.

Doucet, 25, was shot in the head at the Baton Rouge airport on March 16, 1984. At the time of
the shooting, which was filmed by a television crew, deputies were escorting Doucet in
handcuffs after returning him from California, where FBI agents had arrested him on a charge of
kidnaping Plauche's 11-year-old son.

Plauche was originally indicted on a charge of second-degree murder but bargained with
prosecutors to plead no contest to the reduced charge of manslaughter, which carried a maximum
sentence of 21 years in prison.

Judge Saia said it was evident that locking Plauche in jail would not help and said, "In this case,
if there is anything that is unusual, it is because both sides are victims. Both sides suffered."

Roland Doucet, a brother, called the sentencing an outrage.

"I don't believe justice was done," he said.

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