Jerry Sandusky Trial Gets Underway

[Old Herb Lady]

This is gonna get UGLY !



BELLEFONTE, Pa.—Prosecutors depicted Jerry Sandusky as a "serial predator" as the child sex-abuse trial of the former Pennsylvania State University assistant football coach opened here Monday morning.
Joseph McGettigan, senior deputy attorney general, addressed the jury for 50 minutes, speaking in soft tones as he described young men who say they were abused as boys by Mr. Sandusky. Mr. McGettigan referred to the accusers by their first names and pointed to smiling photographs of them projected onto a large screen.





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"You're looking at them as young men up there [as witnesses] but you will see them and understand them as children when they were used and abused for sexual purposes," Mr. McGettigan said. He said six of the young men "had no fathers" in their lives and three never knew their fathers.
Mr. Sandusky has denied any sexual activity took place with the boys and has pleaded not guilty to 52 criminal counts.
Using his role as a football coach and the founder of the Second Mile charity for at-risk youths, "he was making each of these young men more and more accustomed to an escalating level of touching," Mr. McGettigan alleged. He asked the jurors in advance to forgive him for pressing the witnesses for details about the alleged abuse.

Joe Amendola, Mr. Sandusky's lawyer, was due to speak later.
The case has reached trial seven months after the Pennsylvania attorney general charged Mr. Sandusky with sexually abusing 10 boys over a period of 15 years, starting in 1994.
Mr. Sandusky, 68 years old and white-haired, sat slightly hunched over in his chair between his attorneys during the opening statements. Wearing a light gray suit, the former coach took notes on a white legal pad and occasionally rocked back in his chair.

The courtroom held about 200 people, nearly half of whom were reporters.
Representing the former coach, Mr. Amendola is expected to try to seed the prosecution theory with doubt, depicting Mr. Sandusky as a generous figure in the community who loves children and has been falsely targeted by the young men for financial gain and perhaps also by overzealous prosecutors.

The prosecution's potential witness list, read to prospective jurors last week, contains more than 25 names, including the father of Mike McQueary, the assistant Penn State football coach currently on leave who said he saw Mr. Sandusky engaged in some sort of sexual activity with a youth in a Penn State shower in 2001.
The defense's list contains more than 70 names, including Mr. Sandusky's wife, Dottie, and six other Sandusky family members; the former chief executive of the Second Mile charity; and at least two psychologists who saw alleged victims and the widow of Joe Paterno, Penn State's longtime football coach. Mr. Paterno was fired in November amid questions over whether he should have done more to ensure that adequate investigations were carried out after he heard of an alleged abuse by Mr. Sandusky in 2001. Mr. Paterno died of cancer in January.

The young men—the youngest of whom is 18—will identify themselves as they testify, though Judge John Cleland has said he hopes the media will protect their privacy. Last week, the judge said the trial would be finished by the end of the month.

Members of the public and reporters started lining up before 7 a.m. outside the courthouse to wait in line for seats inside. Robert Bezilla, 22 years old, who graduated from Penn State this spring with a degree in history, said he wanted to find out how the case will end.

"It was like any other big issue (on campus) in that people did a lot more venting than actual reading on the issue," said Mr. Bezilla, standing at the front of the line. "It's going to be nice to get to trial and hear the facts one way or another."


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DAY 1

The Jerry Sandusky trial's opening day: 6 revelations The former Penn State football defensive coach is in court fighting charges that he sexually abused 10 boys.
On the first day, one accuser detailed his story


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Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky leaves the Centre County Courthouse after the first day of his trial in Bellefonte, Pa., on June 11. Sandusky is expected to take the stand in his trial, which will likely last about three weeks.


The sex-abuse trial of former Penn State football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky opened (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hw1-Ix4Q9vncKnbglFL3-YzZGK5g?docId=9b1d510867484aed8a297b22a2ce1517) in Bellefonte, Pa., on Monday, with a few surprises and some graphic testimony from one of Sandusky's alleged victims. Sandusky, 68, is charged with 52 counts for allegedly abusing 10 boys (http://theweek.com/article/index/222239/how-bad-are-the-new-charges-against-jerry-sandusky) over a span of 15 years; if convicted, he could face a sentence of 500-plus years in prison. Sandusky says he's innocent. A jury of seven women and five men will decide his fate after what Judge John Cleland says could be less than three weeks of trial. Here are six key revelations from the first day:

1. Eight alleged victims will testify
Lead prosecutor Joseph McGettigan III opened by calling Sandusky a "predatory pedophile" (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hw1-Ix4Q9vncKnbglFL3-YzZGK5g?docId=9b1d510867484aed8a297b22a2ce1517) who used his children's charity, The Second Mile, to befriend and groom boys for sexual relationships. The prosecution's case rests on testimony from eight men who say they were molested by Sandusky as boys, between ages 10 and 15. All eight men, now 18 to 28, are expected to testify. Their names will be made public for the first time when they take the stand, although most news organizations are declining to use the names, instead referring to the men as the court documents do — Victims 1 through 10. (Witnesses allegedly saw two of the victims being abused, but prosecutors never located them.)


2. Victim 4 says Sandusky treated him like a girlfriend
The first accuser, Victim 4, took the stand on the first day, testifying that Sandusky sexually abused him for more than two years starting in 1997, when he was about 13. "When we were out in front of other people, like a golf outing, that's when he treated me like his son," he said (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/12/us-usa-crime-sandusky-idUSBRE85611T20120612). "When we were alone, he tried to treat me like his girlfriend." It escalated from showering together after racquetball to "soap battles" involving inappropriate genital touching to oral sex, said Victim 4, now 28. In car rides with Sandusky, for example, the coach "would put his hand on my leg, basically like I was his girlfriend.... It freaked me out extremely bad."


3. When the boy tried to move on, Sandusky offered a contract
Victim 4 says he never told anybody about the abuse because he liked the perks — gifts, sideline tickets to Penn State football games, the prestige and access Sandusky provided — and because he was ashamed. After about two years, though, Victim 4 says he started distancing himself from Sandusky, and the coach allegedly offered him a contract (http://abcnews.go.com/US/jerry-sandusky-called-serial-predator-trials-opening/story?id=16539947#.T9a0xuJYsXd) that promised money if he continued to keep up his grades — and exercise with Sandusky three times a week. The contract, called the Program, was entered into court records, as were what Victim 4 called "creepy love letters" from Sandusky. An official at Second Mile, the ostensible sponsor of the contract, said he's never heard of (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/12/us-usa-crime-sandusky-idUSBRE85611T20120612) the Program.



4. Sandusky's wife allegedly walked in on him
Victim 4 testified that during a trip to Dallas for the 1999 Alamo Bowl, he stayed in a hotel room with Sandusky and his wife, Dottie. Sandusky tried to get the boy to perform oral sex on him when the two were alone in the bathroom, threatening to send him home if he didn't comply, the witness said (http://abcnews.go.com/US/jerry-sandusky-called-serial-predator-trials-opening/story?id=16539947#.T9a0xuJYsXd). "What happened then is literally 10 seconds later, the bathroom door is not shut completely... and the other door is open, and I heard Dottie say 'Jerry' and he ran out. And she said, 'What are you doing in there?'"


5. Sandusky will apparently testify
"The first big revelation of the Jerry Sandusky trial... was supposed to be the reading of 'love letters' allegedly written by Sandusky to his victims," says Ben Kercheval at NBC Sports (http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/06/11/sanduskys-attorney-says-his-client-will-testify/). Instead, "the defense came out with a surprise of its own": Sandusky will take the stand. "He's going to tell you later, it was routine for individuals to take showers together," said lead defense lawyer Joe Amendola. Sandusky's plan to take the stand appeared to surprise prosecutors.


6. The defense will blame mental illness, discredit witnesses
Sandusky's case will rely on trying to convince the jurors that in athletics it's pretty normal for people to take group showers, that the alleged victims are also suing Sandusky in civil court, and thus have a financial stake in the trial's outcome; the defense will also argue that Sandusky wrote love letters due to a psychological condition called histrionic personality disorder. "The testimony is going to be awful," Amendola conceded (http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/11/12164972-accuser-says-sandusky-treated-him-like-girlfriend-in-graphic-encounters?lite), "but that doesn't make it true, and that's the bottom line."

[iOWNme]

Storys like these outline the problem with living in a 'civilized' society.

Because back in the day, the men who caught Sandusky with his hands on a child WOULD HAVE KILLED HIM ON SIGHT. And then society would have continued to flourish with one less molestor in the town.

Now we go through all kinds of charades, BECAUSE WE GOT RID OF MORALS.

i really hope this guy see's the inside of a Prison, because he will never make it out of there alive. Prisoners actually have their own set of morals, and child abusers are looked at as the very bottom of the pond. Lower than the algae, the bacteria and the fish defication.

[Glass]

Like this?


Caught in the act, dad kills molester
US authorities say a father who caught a man sexually assaulting his four-year-old daughter and bashed him to death may not face charges.
The father, from Texas, punched the man repeatedly in the head, killing him, Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon said.
The girl had been left inside the family’s house during a social gathering on Saturday while other members of her family were tending to horses, Sheriff Harmon told CNN (http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/11/justice/texas-abuser-killed/index.html).


He said the father returned to the house and caught the man abusing his daughter before unleashing his attack. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.

The girl was taken to a local hospital for examination before being released and was "OK besides the obvious mental trauma", Sheriff Harmon said.
He said the father was ‘‘very remorseful’’ and did not know the other man was going to die.
"You have a right to defend your daughter," Sheriff Harmon said after being asked whether police would press charges against the girl's father.
‘‘He acted in defence of [of her]. Once the investigation is completed we will submit it to the district attorney who then submits it to the grand jury, who will decide if they will indict him.’’
Neither man has been publicly identified.





Link to story @ the Age (http://www.theage.com.au/world/father-bashes-daughters-abuser-to-death-after-catching-him-in-the-act-20120612-206l1.html)

[iOWNme]

Like this?



Link to story @ the Age (http://www.theage.com.au/world/father-bashes-daughters-abuser-to-death-after-catching-him-in-the-act-20120612-206l1.html)

I like the Sheriffs quote "You have a right to defend your daughter". Damn right you do. He will probably still get indicted for daring to use the same force and violence that Government uses everyday. I mean after all they have the monopoly on it, right?

[willie pete]

A social worker who spoke to Sandusky about the boy's claims testified that the coach denied having sexual contact with the boy but did acknowledge lying on top of him and blowing "raspberries" on the boy's stomach. The social worker, Jessica Dershem, also said Sandusky told her he couldn't recall whether he had ever touched the boy below his waistline.

...blowing "raspberries" on the boy's stomach? ...this guy is a chicken hawk, plain and simple.....now wheres my .22 with the Gemtech?

[Twisted Titan]

I really think Sandusky is gonna walk.

This prick has had a belligerant attitude since day one after being caught.

He has even done a few interviews saying I didn't do anything wrong.

You only got that type of swagger when you are sitting on a stack of Aces.

He is being protected because he can bring much bigger fish down.


At least thats my take on it.

[Old Herb Lady]

DAY 2



BELLEFONTE, Pa. -- In a voice that was strong, clear and steadfast, former Penn State University graduate assistant Mike McQueary told a jury that he had "no doubt" that he saw Jerry Sandusky having anal sex with a boy in the locker room showers in February 2001.
That demeanor was in stark contrast to the 18-year-old man who testified first on Tuesday, who repeatedly cried on the stand, and at one point during cross-examination became so frustrated that he held his face in his hands and cried, "Oh, God."
It was the second day of trial for Mr. Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant football coach who is accused of sexually abusing 10 boys over a 15-year-period. The prosecution got through seven witnesses, but it was Mr. McQueary and the young man known as Victim No. 1 who held the gallery rapt.
The alleged victim spent nearly 21/2 hours on the stand, detailing -- much like the man known as Victim No. 4 did on Monday -- a relationship with Mr. Sandusky that evolved from going with him on family outings and to sporting events, to overnight stays at the man's State College homes, to repeated sexual abuse over a period of years.
The teen told the jury of seven women and five men that he met the defendant after attending two or three summer camps through The Second Mile, Mr. Sandusky's charity for underprivileged children. The first time the witness said he went on a family outing with Mr. Sandusky, it was to a dam to swim. The defendant threw him and other children there into the water -- echoing a refrain by alleged Victim No. 4.
The witness told the jury that he lived in public housing in Lock Haven with his mother and two younger siblings. He wrestled in elementary school and liked football and track. Though it appeared the young man had a good relationship with his grandfather, he testified that he never knew his father, and, again, Mr. Sandusky filled that role.
The young man said his mother never questioned the relationship.
"She didn't think anything was up. She didn't think anything was wrong," the teen testified. "In some ways, she encouraged it."
Later, he continued, "My mom thought I was doing stuff she couldn't do with me. She enjoyed the fact that I had a role model."
In the beginning of his relationship with Mr. Sandusky, the witness said he would sleep over the defendant's house occasionally on a weekend, but in the summers, he would spend days on end there. He primarily slept on a waterbed in a spare room in the basement.
The young man repeated another element of alleged Victim No. 4's testimony: "He put his hand on my leg and just kind of kept it there while he was driving. I really didn't think anything of it."
During his testimony, the witness described how the relationship with Mr. Sandusky became physical.
"At first, he would kiss me on the forehead good night. Then it came to him kissing me on the cheek, and then him rubbing my back and pulling me on top of him and cracking my back," the man said.
"I kind of thought, he sees me as family, and maybe this is what his family does," the witness said. "I didn't say anything. I didn't, honestly, think it was anything wrong."
He told the jury that Mr. Sandusky's wife, Dottie, never entered the basement during these episodes.
As Senior Deputy Attorney General Joseph McGettigan III moved into more graphic parts of the testimony, he gave the witness notice.
"Are you OK?" the prosecutor asked.
The young man took a deep breath and said, "OK."
He then told the jurors that Mr. Sandusky kissed his lips, rubbed his back and his buttocks, blew on his stomach and then performed oral sex on him. As he described it, it was clear he was attempting to keep his composure. But then, he looked directly at Mr. Sandusky at the defense table, shook his head, and looked away.
"He put his mouth on my privates," he said. "I didn't know what to do. I just kind of blacked out. I was frozen."
The prosecutor then asked, "After that happened, did you tell your mom?"
"No," the witness answered.
"Did you tell him to stop?"
"No. I didn't know what to say. I was embarrassed, confused. I didn't know what to do."
Over the next many months and years, the witness said Mr. Sandusky always followed the same routine for the abuse. It would be at bedtime, in the basement of the house when he slept over. He estimated it happened 80 to 90 percent of the times he stayed with the family.
The young man said at one point, Mr. Sandusky "looked at me and said something along the lines of, 'it's your turn,' and he made me," he paused, beginning to cry, "put my mouth on his privates."
The boy said he was about 12 years old then. When the abuse began, he testified, he started acting out, wetting the bed and getting in fights, "stuff I wouldn't normally do."
Some time later, the boy asked his mother how to look up sex offenders online. When she asked why, he told her he thought Mr. Sandusky might be one. His mother set up an appointment with his guidance counselor, and in November 2008 the case was referred to Clinton County Children & Youth Services and the state police.
On cross-examination, defense attorney Joe Amendola repeatedly questioned the witness about how many times the alleged abuse occurred.
In his initial statement to school officials, he never mentioned oral sex, and did not the first time he spoke with CYS, either.
Later, as Mr. Amendola continued to question him on the number of instances, his frustration was palpable. "You're -- you're," he stopped, putting his face in his hands. "Oh, God."
When the defense attorney asked if the witness wanted a break, he responded, "I'd like you to stop asking me the same questions."
Unlike alleged Victim No. 1, Mr. McQueary held up strong under cross-examination.
In what was a highly anticipated questioning, defense attorney Karl Rominger did not appear to break any new ground with the former Penn State graduate assistant and coach.
Mr. McQueary testified on direct examination by the prosecution that he went to Penn State's Lasch football building on a Friday night in February 2001 to do some work, when he stopped in the support staff locker room to put a pair of new sneakers away.
As he opened the door, he said, he could hear showers running and "smacking sounds. Skin-on-skin smacking sounds.
"I immediately became alerted and embarrassed that I was walking in on something."
As he opened his locker just inside the door, Mr. McQueary told the jury he got a glimpse in the bathroom mirror over his right shoulder into the showers.
"I see in the mirror Jerry Sandusky standing behind a boy who is propped up against the shower. The boy's hands are against the wall."
Shocked by what he'd seen, Mr. McQueary said he turned around, walked two to three paces so he could look with his eyes into the showers.
"I didn't want to trust the mirror," he said. He saw the same thing, describing Mr. Sandusky's arms being wrapped around the boy's midsection.
Mr. McQueary described himself as "extremely alarmed, extremely flustered, extremely shocked."
"You don't expect to see anything like that ever. This is the Penn State football building."
To try to alert them someone was in the room, Mr. McQueary said he slammed his locker door as hard as he could, and when he looked again, Mr. Sandusky and the boy were separated by three to five feet.
"They both saw me. I saw the fronts of their bodies. We looked into each others' eyes. I would say the little boy came up to chest height. He was prepubescent, 10 to 12 years old."
He testified that he did not do anything, physically, to stop what had happened.
Mr. McQueary quickly went to his office, called his father and then left the building to speak to him.
John McQueary -- along with a friend and colleague, Jonathan Dranov -- told his son to call coach Joe Paterno the next day to report what he'd seen.
Mike McQueary said that he didn't use graphic description with either his father or Paterno.
"I made sure he knew it was extremely wrong, extremely sexual," he said of his father.
In talking with Paterno, he said he did not go into "gross detail, out of respect and probably my own embarrassment."
Paterno then reported the incident to athletic director Tim Curley, who alerted Penn State vice president Gary Schultz. Mr. McQueary insisted during his testimony that he thought speaking to Mr. Schultz, who oversaw the university police, was the same thing as going to law enforcement.
On cross-examination, Mr. Rominger attempted to point out inconsistencies in Mr. McQueary's testimony before the grand jury and in court, but each time, the witness repeated his assertions that he saw Mr. Sandusky in a sexual act with a boy. He continually used phrases like, "Let me be clear," and then went on to explain, again, what he'd seen.
He admitted that he did not see insertion, or Mr. Sandusky's penis, but insisted he believed it to be anal sex.
"With his front against that boy's back. Absent seeing a penis enter a rectum, I think they were having sex," Mr. McQueary said.
Mr. Rominger also challenged a change in the date the alleged act occurred. Mr. McQueary testified that he always had said it could have been either 2001 or 2002, but that investigators using landmarks and clues in Mr. McQueary's memory were able to place it as a Friday night in February 2001.
The last witness for the day was Joseph Miller, a wrestling coach in the Central Mountain School District. He told the jury that one evening in either 2006 or 2007 he returned to the school to pick something up and saw the light on in the weight room. He thought that a student had left it on and went in to turn it off. He walked in and saw alleged Victim No. 1 and Mr. Sandusky lying face to face on their sides under a rock-climbing wall.
He testified that Mr. Sandusky quickly propped himself up on his elbow, and said, "Hey, coach; just showing him some wrestling moves."
Mr. Miller said that as he drove away that night, he briefly wondered why they'd be working on wrestling in the weight room, not the wrestling room.
"I quickly dismissed it from my mind. Jerry would never do anything inappropriate. I had the utmost respect for Jerry," he said. "I thought to myself, 'It's Jerry Sandusky. He's a saint. What he's doing with these kids is fantastic.' "


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[Old Herb Lady]

DAY 3


BELLEFONTE, Pa. -- Day 3 of the child sexual abuse trial of Jerry Sandusky has concluded, and the prosecution said today that it will be done by week's end.
Alleged Victim No. 5 testified this afternoon, and the judge allowed testimony about an incident with Victim 8, who has not been identified.
Mr. Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant coach, is charged with molesting 10 boys over a 15-year period.
The person identified as Victim No. 5 testified that Mr. Sandusky sexually assaulted him in a Penn State locker room shower in the late summer of 2001 even though in his grand jury testimony he said the incident occurred a full three years earlier.
Today, the man who is now 23, said the act occurred after Mr. Sandusky took him into a sauna. Penn State's previous football building didn't have a sauna. One was built in the Lasch building, however, which opened in 2000.
According to his testimony, the defendant had taken the boy, who was 12 at the time, to a number of football games between 1999 and 2001.
The day of the incident, they had worked out briefly, and Mr. Sandusky said they needed to shower. First, the witness said, they got undressed, wrapped towels around themselves and went to the sauna.
"He parted the towel and he sat back and exposed himself to me," the man said.
They then moved to the showers.
The boy took a shower head at the far end of the room, but he said he could feel the defendant looking at him.
"I noticed his penis was enlarged, but I didn't understand the significance of it back then," he said. "He started coming in my direction. He threw soap in my direction and started lathering my shoulders. I felt his body on my back.
"I kept lurching forward, but I didn't have any farther to go. I felt his penis on my back."
He told the jury the defendant then placed the boy's hand on his penis. The witness said he was able to slide away and left the shower.
Mr. Sandusky was angry, drove the boy home and they did not speak.
He testified he never spoke to Mr. Sandusky again.
After a short break, the prosecution played for the jury an interview Mr. Sandusky gave with Bob Costas in November, which was aired on NBC.
The next witness called by the prosecution was Ronald Petrosky, a custodian in the Lasch football building at Penn State.
He testified that one evening in the fall of 2000, when he entered the support staff locker room to clean the showers, he saw two pairs of legs inside -- one hairy and one that looked like those of a small child.
He left the area to allow them to finish showering, and a short time later, Mr. Sandusky and a small boy walked out, with their hair wet.
"About three-quarters of the way down [the hall], Jerry took the boy's hand," Mr. Petrosky said.
A short time after that, he said a fellow janitor came out, shaking and white.
"I could see that he was upset. His face was white. His hands were trembling."
He said that man, Jim Calhoun, then said, "I just witnessed something I'll never forget the rest of my life. He had this boy, with his hands against the wall, licking his privates."
Mr. Petrosky said his colleague was crying and shaking.
According to the prosecution, Mr. Calhoun is unavailable to testify because he is hospitalized and has dementia. The defense had argued against permitting the testimony, saying it was hearsay. McKean County Senior Judge John Cleland allowed the testimony.
This morning, Victim 7 took the stand and testified that Mr. Sandusky provided him with tickets to Penn State football games from 1995 to 2009.
The witness, now 27, said, like the others, that the defendant befriended him at a summer camp run by The Second Mile, the charity founded by Mr. Sandusky.
Their relationship began with Mr. Sandusky taking him to games, and then evolved into him staying over at the man's home.
He was 10 years old at the time.




The witness testified that Mr. Sandusky would "cuddle" him when he went to bed at night, curling up with his front to the boy's back. Sometimes, he said, the defendant had no shirt on, and he continued, even now chest hair "repulses" him.
The young man told the jury that a couple months after they began doing things together, the defendant took him to shower on Penn State's campus. He said the man tried to shampoo his hair and wash him, but the boy moved away.
He also said Mr. Sandusky came up behind him, pressing his naked front to the boy's naked back and gave him a bear hug, lifting him off the shower floor.
"I was kind of ashamed about it," he said. "I didn't want anyone to know. Probably most importantly, I didn't want my parents to keep me from going to games."
Around 1997, the witness said Mr. Sandusky stopped calling him to go on outings.
"I had thought I did something wrong and was very upset about it," he said. "I thought I did something that offended him or made him angry."
On cross examination by Joe Amendola, the man said that he has hired a civil attorney with whom he's met 10 to 15 times. He has not paid the lawyer. Mr. Amendola said the attorney is also representing another alleged victim.
The defense also presented the witness with inconsistencies between his testimony with the grand jury and in court today. During his previous testimony, the young man said he "didn't think" there had ever been any physical contact with the defendant in the shower.
He also said Mr. Sandusky never touched his penis under his pants at the grand jury, but today testified otherwise.
The witness said that since the grand jury in April 2011, he has gone to counseling, which has triggered new memories from the time in question.
The young man said that he continued to request football tickets from the defendant until 2009, and that he didn't harbor any ill will toward the man at that time.
Mr. Amendola also showed the witness an application for a scholarship he filled out with The Second Mile in 2004. In it, he wrote, "Jerry Sandusky, he has changed my perceptions in life in a positive way. . . He is such a kind and caring gentleman, and I will never, ever forget him."
He later said he didn't develop any hostility to the man until recently.
Earlier today, the man identified in the second grand jury presentment as Victim No. 10 testified that Mr. Sandusky performed oral sex on him on one of his first visits to the man's home.
Unlike previous testimony from two alleged victims in the child sexual abuse trial of the former Penn State assisant football coach, the witness, who is now 25, said he and the defendant began wrestling in the basement and the man pulled his shorts down and began performing oral sex on the boy who was age 11 at the time.
"What did you do?" asked Senior Deputy Attorney General Joseph McGettigan.
"I freaked out, got scared."
The event lasted a couple minutes.
"He told me if I told anybody I would never see my family again," the young man said. A short time later, Mr. Sandusky said, "He apologized for saying that and told me he didn't mean it and he loved me."
The witness did not describe the same evolving grooming pattern that the earlier accusers testified about. He also said Mr. Sandusky took him home afterward, and he did not sleep over.
The boy met the defendant through a summer camp program in 1997 at The Second Mile.
On cross-examination by defense attorney Joe Amendola, the man admitted he served 23 months in state prison for robbery and had also been arrested for theft. He also testified that he was the roommate of another Sandusky accuser at a Second Mile camp.
He came forward after the initial set of charges were filed against Mr. Sandusky.
The first witness of the day was John McQueary, the father of former Penn State graduate assistant Mike McQueary.
John McQueary testified about the night his son arrived at his home, telling him that he had seen Mr. Sandusky in the locker room showers in a sex act with the defendant.
On cross-examination by defense attorney Karl Rominger, John McQueary could not recall testifying at the preliminary hearing for Penn State athletic director Tim Curley or Vice President Gary Schultz. Even after being shown a copy of the hearing transcript, listing him as a witness, as well as viewing pages of his own testimony, the man denied testifying there.
Mr. Rominger asked Mr. McQueary if he knew what a mandatory reporter is (categories of people who are required to report possible sexual abuse), and the answer was no. Mr. McQueary was the CEO of a medical group at the time of the 2001 incident.
Mr. Rominger asked him what it would have taken for him to tell his son to call 911 that night.
"He would have had to tell me he saw someone injured, screaming, hurt. I don't know what he would have had to tell me. You're asking me to say 'what if'," Mr. McQueary said.
Mr. Rominger asked the judge if the lawyers could go to sidebar, but the judge refused.
"He said he wasn't there, Mr. Rominger. I don't know what else to tell you."


http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/state/day-3-of-fast-moving-sandusky-trial-640157/

[Old Herb Lady]

Indictment against Jerry Sandusky : (Warning; very disturbing ! )

http://www.npr.org/assets/news/2011/11/sandusky_presentment.pdf



When the love letters to one of his victims is released I'll post it here , too.

[Old Herb Lady]

DAY 4 couldn't even read it--made me too sick, I'll just post a link instead of all the words on here.


http://triblive.com/state/1998022-74/sandusky-state-testified-victim-penn-trial-attorney-coach-schreffler-alleged

[Publico]

When the jury retires to deliberate the Sand man is going to fall off the back of the boat.

[Old Herb Lady]

Bellefonte, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was found guilty Friday on 45 of 48 counts related to sexual abuse of boys over a 15-year period.
Jurors delivered the verdict around 10 p.m. after deliberating for about 21 hours.There were convictions related to all 10 sexual abuse victims, with the three not-guilty verdicts applying to three different individuals.
Sandusky stood slightly hunched, looking down with his hand in his pocket but showing no visible emotion as the guilty verdicts were read out in court. His wife, Dottie, blinked back tears.
Judge John Cleland revoked Sandusky's bail and ordered his arrest. Video showed him leaving the courthouse in handcuffs and heading into an awaiting police car, again showing little emotion.
Sandusky's case gripped the nation and led to the dismissal of a legendary coach and one of America's highest-paid university presidents, while his trial included gripping and at times graphic testimony from his victims.


During closing arguments, prosecutors described the ex-Nittany Lions defensive coordinator as a pedophile who preyed on victims using a charity he founded for troubled children, repeatedly abusing young boys in his care.
Sandusky, 68, had pleaded not guilty to the 48 charges of child sex abuse that spanned a 15-year period.
His defense sought to poke holes in the prosecution's case throughout the trial, such as pointing to inconsistencies in the testimony of Mike McQueary, a former graduate assistant who testified that he witnessed Sandusky apparently sodomizing a boy in a university shower.
Defense attorney Joe Amendola reminded jurors of the lack of physical evidence in the case, accusing the alleged victims of conspiring for financial gain, while also blaming the media for what he described as biased coverage.
Lead prosecutor Joseph McGettigan rebuffed those arguments, telling jurors that "the commonwealth has overwhelming evidence against Mr. Sandusky."
In a bombshell announcement Thursday evening, Matt Sandusky -- one of Jerry Sandusky's six adopted children -- said through his attorney that he was sexually abused by the former Penn State assistant football coach, adding that he had been prepared to testify against him.
Legal analysts say the accusation could bring additional charges, including incest charges, against the former coach.
The broader scandal led to the November firing of iconic head football coach Joe Paterno, the dismissal of university president Graham Spanier and brought charges against vice president Gary Schultz and former Athletic Director Tim Curley for perjury and failing to report the abuse.



During grand jury testimony, Paterno said that he was told by a graduate assistant that Sandusky was in the showers "fondling or doing something of a sexual nature to a young boy."
The Nittany Lions' head coach, who died on January 22 after a career that had him widely credited with bringing the program to national prominence, reported the incident to his superiors but did not inform police, the school's board of trustees said in a report that explained Paterno's firing.
"We determined that his decision to do his minimum legal duty and not to do more to follow up constituted a failure of leadership by Coach Paterno," the trustees said.
That decision prompted rioting from Penn State university students, overturning a news van and clashing with police, who used tear gas break up the crowds.
After a week of testimony, during which time witnesses graphically described sexual encounters with Sandusky that they said occurred durijng their boyhoods, jurors made their decision without ever having heard from Sandusky on the witness stand.
If the former coach had testified, prosecutors could have potentially submitted as new evidence a November television interview he had with NBC sportscaster Bob Costas.


What Sandusky has said about child rape allegations (http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/19/what-sandusky-has-said-about-child-sex-abuse-allegations/)


In a portion of the interview that was not part of the original broadcast, Sandusky told Costas that he "didn't go around seeking out every young person for sexual needs that I've helped."
On Tuesday, the prosecution called its only rebuttal witness to counter testimony that raised questions about the former coach's mental health.
Dr. Elliot Atkins earlier had testified that he diagnosed Sandusky with histrionic personality disorder, part of a class of conditions called dramatic personality disorders, which are marked by unstable emotions and distorted self-images. But a second psychologist, prosecution witness Dr. John O'Brien, disputed those findings, saying that the "personality profile Mr. Sandusky exhibited was within normal limits."
A day later, the defense called Dr. Jonathan Dranov, an acquaintance of McQueary's, who said the former graduate assistant told him he heard "sexual sounds" and saw the boy in the shower when an arm reached around him. Sandusky then emerged from the shower area, he quoted McQueary as saying. But McQueary said he did not actually witness a sexual encounter, Dranov said of their conversation.
That account differs from what the former graduate assistant testified he saw.
McQueary said he witnessed Sandusky pressed up against the boy in the shower and that it seemed obvious the former coach had been sodomizing the child.
On Tuesday, Sandusky's wife told jurors that she could remember at least six of her husband's accusers staying overnight at their house, but that she never witnessed sexual abuse.


All you need to know about allegations, how case unraveled (http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/11/jerry-sandusky-trial-all-you-need-to-know-about-allegations-how-case-unraveled/)


Eight young men testified, often in disturbingly graphic detail, of how Sandusky forced them to engage in sexual acts in various places, including showers in the Penn State coaches' locker room, hotel rooms and the basement of his home.
One told jurors that Sandusky -- whom he met, like many of the accusers, through The Second Mile foundation that the ex-coach founded -- had threatened him if he told others about the abuse. Another said Sandusky warned him that he might send him home from a trip to Texas, where they'd gone to watch a Penn State bowl game.
The defense challenged the accusers' timetable, questioned the various allegations and called multiple character witness to defend Sandusky's stellar reputation in the community.


http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/22/justice/pennsylvania-sandusky-trial/index.html

[Book]

http://students.cis.uab.edu/ch1434/pic1.jpg
Hey Coach...Let's Go Take Another Shower!

[sirgonzo420]

Sandusky was pimping boys out to people higher than him. This whole "Second Mile" Penn State ordeal smells an awful like "Boystown" in Nebraska.

He thought he was protected, and indeed he was for many years.

I'm sure it is terrifying how often shit like this goes on.

They use these kids to compromise politicians and other people in power.

Sandusky is just a lower-rung guy.

[osoab]

Sandusky was pimping boys out to people higher than him. This whole "Second Mile" Penn State ordeal smells an awful like "Boystown" in Nebraska.

He thought he was protected, and indeed he was for many years.

I'm sure it is terrifying how often shit like this goes on.

They use these kids to compromise politicians and other people in power.

Sandusky is just a lower-rung guy.


So how soon is he "Ken Layed" or dead in a prison shower?

[Cebu_4_2]

So how soon is he "Ken Layed" or dead in a prison shower?

Probably end up in a prison resort, not in general population.

[Buddha]

Every one of those 45 charges that he was convicted of should be done to him by the largest imprisoned black man that can be found. Then he can die execution style, and an invoice sent to his family to reimburse the cost of the round.

[Rubberchicken]

90% of black adults admit having sex in the shower, the other 10% said they have never been to jail.

[skidmark]

Now that he has been convicted, he should be water boarded until he coughs up the names of the people he was pimping those boys to.

[Xizang]

90% of black adults admit having sex in the shower, the other 10% said they have never been to jail.

You know, I've heard the very same statistic. That's why all my black friends are female!

[iOWNme]

This just in.....


Sandusky sentenced to 30 years minimum in Prison

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-09/sandusky-sentenced-to-30-to-60-years-in-prison.html

Jerry Sandusky, the ex-Pennsylvania (http://topics.bloomberg.com/pennsylvania/) State University assistant football coach convicted of sexually abusing children, was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison, concluding a prosecution that tarnished the school’s image and led to the firing of head coach Joe Paterno.
Sandusky, 68, appeared today before Common Pleas Court Judge John Cleland wearing an orange jumpsuit and white sneakers. The hearing in state court in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, came almost four months after he was found guilty of abusing 10 boys over a 15 year-period. He was convicted on 45 counts.


Sandusky met the boys he abused through the Second Mile (http://www.thesecondmile.org/welcome.php), a charity he founded for needy children. During a two-week trial in June, prosecutors portrayed him as a serial child molester who used the charity to recruit his victims, befriending them and “grooming” them with gifts, trips to Penn State football games and money.

“You abused the trust of those who trusted you,” Cleland said. “The crime is not only what you did to their bodies but the crime is your assault to their psyche and their souls.”

The judge said Sandusky will be kept in the Centre County Correctional Facility for 10 days before being transferred to Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, for processing and placement. Sandusky got credit for the 112 days he has been incarcerated since the case began.
‘Natural Life’

Sandusky will serve at least three decades before he’s considered for parole, in essence “the remainder of his natural life,” lead prosecutor Joseph McGettigan said after the sentence was imposed.

The sentence is no more than anyone could reasonably expect, said Daniel Filler (http://www.earlemacklaw.drexel.edu/faculty/FacultyProfiles/Daniel%20Filler/), a criminal law professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia. The sentence could even be considered lenient considering Sandusky was convicted of indecent deviant sexual intercourse, Pennsylvania’s “old- fashioned term” for rape, Filler said.

“If Sandusky lives to age 98, he won’t necessarily get parole even after 30 years,” Filler said. “It’s hard to imagine a court sentencing any serial rapist to a lesser term.”

Before a packed court, including his wife and four of his six adopted children, Sandusky denied the charges against him.
‘My Heart’

“Others can take my life, they can make me out as a monster, but they can’t take away my heart,” he said. “And in my heart I know that I did not do these disgusting things.”

Three of Sandusky’s victims addressed the court before sentence was passed. Statements from a fourth victim and the mother of one of the victims were read.

In a recorded statement posted on the Penn State ComRadio News (http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/sandusky-maintains-innocence-from-jail-in-a-statement-released-to-comradio-1150793/) website yesterday, Sandusky blamed his conviction on a “well-orchestrated effort” by the media, investigators, “the system,” Penn State, his accusers, civil attorneys and psychologists. The “attention, financial gain and prestige” they won will “all be temporary,” Sandusky said. He said his lawyers didn’t have time to prepare for the trial.

Sandusky’s statement was “a masterpiece of denial and self-delusion,” McGettigan said after the hearing. “It was untethered from reality.”

Sandusky read his statement today as victims seated three rows behind him lowered their heads and shook them from side to side. The former coach was at times defiant, pledging to “continue to fight,” and at other times anguished at the separation from his wife of 46 years and his grandchildren. He said the victims are people he cared about and still does.
Abuse, Manipulate

Sandusky sought to abuse and manipulate his victims until the very end, a teenager identified as Victim 1 said in a statement read at the hearing by McGettigan.

“There is no remorse, no regret, only evil,” the victim said in the statement.

Another victim who spoke during the hearing said his abuse left him suffering from anxiety, post-traumatic stress, embarrassment and guilt.

“I can never erase the filthy images of his naked body against mine, his hands on me and him forcing my hands on him,” the teenager said.
Another victim said he would never forgive the former coach.

“You were the person in my life who was supposed to be a role model. Instead you did terrible things,” the victim, who now has a child of his own, said. “Rather than take accountability for your actions you decided to attack us as if we did something wrong. You should be ashamed of yourself.”
Victims Applauded

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, who oversaw the beginning of the Sandusky probe when he was attorney general, applauded the victims for stepping forward.

“Today’s sentence will hopefully give comfort to those young men, whose trust in the justice system is rewarded by seeing this man go to prison for the rest of his life,” Corbett said in a statement.

Defense attorney Joseph Amendola said he believes Sandusky would have been acquitted had his lawyers had enough time to get ready for trial. The lawyers had 4 1/2 months to prepare a case based on 52 criminal counts and 10 separate victims, much less than a related case against two Penn State officials charged with lesser crimes, Amendola said.

“Had we had the time, we would have had the opportunity to prove Jerry’s innocence,” Amendola said after the hearing.
Appeal Plan

The issue will be the basis for an appeal that will be filed within 10 days, Karl Rominger (http://www.romingerlaw.com/), another defense attorney, said.
Cleland’s denial of a request to delay the trial “fundamentally taints the fairness of the process,” Rominger said.

The Sandusky scandal cast a shadow over the university, located in an area called “Happy Valley,” for almost a year. The fallout led to the firings of university President Graham Spanier andPaterno, who headed Penn State’s football program for 46 years. It also resulted in the university being sanctioned and two other school officials facing related criminal charges. Paterno died Jan. 22.

The scandal was a “train wreck” that captivated the nation, Duquesne University law professor Wesley Oliver (http://www.duq.edu/academics/faculty/wesley-oliver) said.

“I couldn’t imagine the appetite for this case lasted as long as it did,” Oliver said. “It was uncontroverted that Sandusky raped these kids. We didn’t tune into this trial to see what would happen or to see whether he did it. We tuned in because we were drawn to the gruesomeness of it.”
Inappropriate Conduct

Sandusky, a former defensive coordinator for Penn State’s Nittany Lions (http://www.gopsusports.com/sports/m-footbl/), played and coached under Paterno for more than 30 years before retiring in 1999, the year after allegations first surfaced of inappropriate contact with minors.

State prosecutors began investigating in early 2009 after a teenager reported that Sandusky had inappropriately touched him several times over a four-year period. Sandusky was arrested and charged in November. Additional charges were added the following month.

Sandusky’s lawyers argued that the case was the product of overzealous investigators. Sandusky didn’t testify.

Some of Sandusky’s victims took the witness stand at his trial, recounting their experiences with him at his home and on campus.

“This case was very simple from a legal perspective,” Oliver said in an interview. “You had overwhelming evidence from credible accusers and you had the defendant’s own words,” he said, citing TV and newspaper interviews by Sandusky.

“There was nothing particularly in doubt,” Oliver said.
Second Mile

Second Mile served children with physical, emotional and academic needs, according to its website. The charity had supporters with high-profile ties to Penn State including Dorothy Huck, the wife of Penn State emeritus board trustee Lloyd Huck, who sat on the charity’s state board of directors.

Sandusky’s success as the group’s primary fundraiser was evident as the charity’s assets more than tripled from 2002 through 2009, according to Internal Revenue Service filings. Second Mile had revenue of $2.7 million and net assets of $9 million, according to its 2010 annual report.

Second Mile said in May it planned to close and transfer its assets to a Houston-based nonprofit. Those plans are on hold pending the resolution of investigations tied to the Sandusky case.
Violent Predator

Sandusky was designated a sexually violent predator before his sentencing today, a move that was uncontested by the defense. Under Pennsylvania law, that status is applied to a person convicted of sexually violent crimes who, because of mental abnormality or personality disorder, presents a high risk of recidivism.
The designation requires a lifetime registration, community notification and lifetime counseling, according to the state’s Sexual Offenders Assessment Board.
Last month, Penn State President Rodney Erickson said the school plans to compensate Sandusky’s victims with money from insurance policies and funds set aside from interest on internal loans. The 157-year-old school is trying to move forward even as it can never forget what happened, Erickson said in a Sept. 18 interview.

“Our thoughts today, as they have been for the last year, go out to the victims of Jerry Sandusky’s abuse,” Erickson said in an e-mailed statement. “While today’s sentence cannot erase what has happened, hopefully it will provide comfort to those affected by these horrible events and help them continue down the road to recovery.”
University Changes

The school, which has spent $19.2 million responding to the Sandusky scandal, has changed its governance structure, implemented management changes and created more transparency as it embarks on a search for a new president. In July the university was fined $60 million by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, while it faces at least three victims’ lawsuits and a complaint filed by a former football coach who testified against Sandusky. The NCAA also stripped the football team of its wins from 1998 through 2011.

The former coach who sued, Mike McQueary (http://topics.bloomberg.com/mike-mcqueary/), is a prosecution witness in the case against Timothy Curley, Penn State’s athletic director at the time, and Gary Schultz, a former vice president in charge of university police. The men are slated for trial in January on charges they lied to a grand jury about a 2001 sex-abuse allegation against Sandusky and failed to report the incident to authorities. Both denied the charges.
Freeh Report

A university-commissioned report released in July by Louis Freeh, the ex-director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said Curley, Schultz, Spanier and Paterno failed to take responsible action after the February 2001 incident although they knew of an early allegation and investigation in 1998.
Lawyers for Curley and Schultz said the report was unfair, inaccurate and not based on a full record of the facts. An attorney for Spanier said in August that the report was an undeserved, biased attack on the former president.

McQueary said he was fired from his $140,400-a-year job because of his cooperation with state prosecutors. He’s seeking $4 million in lost earnings, according to a complaint filed Oct. 1 in state court.

The cases are Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Sandusky, CP- 14-2422-CR-2011, Court of Common Pleas, Centre County, Pennsylvania (Bellefonte); and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Schultz, CP-22-CR-5164-2011, Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Harrisburg).

[iOWNme]

More here....

http://cleveland.cbslocal.com/2012/10/09/sandusky-victim-i-am-troubled-with-flashbacks-of-his-naked-body/


"I Am Troubled With Flashbacks Of His Naked Body" - Victims recalls horrendous acts....

[Glass]

Interesting numbers:

Penn State’s costs related to Jerry Sandusky pedophile scandal now over $237 million
.................
The university has settled with 33 people over allegations they were sexually abused by Sandusky, and has made total payments to them of $93 million.



link (http://www.hangthebankers.com/penn-state-jerry-sandusky-pedophile-scandal/)

Masonry = 33
Saturn = 93

Can't see anything else particularly interesting. OP invokes Pi

Members of the public and reporters started lining up before 7 a.m. outside the courthouse to wait in line for seats inside. Robert Bezilla, 22 years old

22/7 = Pi

[Joshua01]

Interesting numbers:


link (http://www.hangthebankers.com/penn-state-jerry-sandusky-pedophile-scandal/)

Masonry = 33
Saturn = 93

Can't see anything else particularly interesting. OP invokes Pi


22/7 = Pi
Does all this mean it's going to snow tomorrow??

[Glass]

Does all this mean it's going to snow tomorrow??

Perhaps if it gets below 33 degrees.

[Neuro]

Interesting numbers:


link (http://www.hangthebankers.com/penn-state-jerry-sandusky-pedophile-scandal/)

Masonry = 33
Saturn = 93

Can't see anything else particularly interesting. OP invokes Pi


22/7 = Pi
Also sun is 93 million miles away from earth! Eek! And according to masons Jesus was 33 when he was crucified! And Eskimoes have 33 different names for snow. Further, this is really astonishing people, in '93 on the third of September I had been to exactly 33 countries.

[Glass]

Also sun is 93 million miles away from earth! Eek! And according to masons Jesus was 33 when he was crucified! And Eskimoes have 33 different names for snow. Further, this is really astonishing people, in '93 on the third of September I had been to exactly 33 countries.


hmmmm, where were you February 26 1993?

[Twisted Titan]

And if you think old pa, Paterno didn't know this shit, was happening you have got to be fooling your self