The questionable nature of the relationship between an Ohio State assistant professor and a minor was one of the primary reasons for his dismissal, OSU documents indicate.S. Christopher Anderson was fired Friday by the Board of Trustees for his alleged role in a “questionable incident” and for his alleged failure to discontinue contact with a Lancaster, Ohio girl who Anderson met through Fairfield County’s 4-H program, according to the documents.As part of his job responsibilities, Anderson was the director of the 4-H program for 20 years and had planned to retire from OSU within the next three months.He faces 14 counts of contributing to the delinquency of minor and four counts of sexual battery in Fairfield County.If convicted of all counts, Anderson would most likely serve both the contributing and battery sentences at the same time, totaling 27 years, said Gregg Marx, Fairfield assistant county prosecutor handling the case. The fines could total $54,000, he said.No date has been set for the pretrial hearing, Marx said.Nancy Rudd, associate provost for Academic Affairs, who led the OSU investigation of Anderson, said it was thorough.”[Anderson’s] idea that we rushed to judgment is wrong,” Rudd said. “It was a 15-month investigation.”The girl, who is now 18, would not comment on the case.”You can’t even begin to realize how painful this has been,” said the girl’s mother. “You don’t understand what it’s like to have a child abused by an individual you used to trust.”The allegations of potential wrongdoing were furthered after Anderson and the girl were found in a car in the OSU extension parking lot. A police report indicated the two were buttoning their pants when the police officer approached Anderson’s car.”We just think the situations were inappropriate,” Rudd said.Still, with his wife by his side, Anderson denies all of the allegations. He cited a letter the girl allegedly wrote to him thanking him for saving her life after she was suicidal. In another letter signed by the girl, which he supplied to OSU investigators, she wrote, “I will no longer lie or flirt.””I am innocent of everything except saving a woman’s life,” Anderson said. “Their investigation was one-sided.”Anderson’s wife, Donna, was firedin April 1997 after 29 years as a volunteer at the OSU extension where her husband worked. Upon hearing of her firing, all of her co-workers, about 250 women, resigned and started their own program without OSU’s affiliation, she said.