The Region - News from Oct. 29, 1986

A 24-year-old San Diego man filed an invasion of privacy lawsuit against Doubleday & Co. and author James Mills for identifying him by name as the victim of child sexual abuse in the best-selling book, “The Underground Empire.” Carlos Coleman, who denies that his adoptive father sodomized him when he was 11 years old, said that to identify a victim of child sexual abuse by name “would be highly offensive to any reasonable person” and has no news value. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles by attorney Anthony M. Glassman, seeks $1 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. Spokesmen for Doubleday and Mills could not be reached.