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Breaking: Jerry Sandusky found guilty on 45 out of 48 counts of child sexual abuse
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was found guilty Friday on 45 out of 48 counts of child sex abuse. Sandusky’s lawyer asked for him to be released under house arrest, but the judge refused and revoked his bail. He was taken from the courthouse in handcuffs, as…
Defense rests in pedophile trial of Jerry Sandusky
BELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania — US defense lawyers on Wednesday rested their case in the pedophilia trial of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, without calling him to the stand. Closing arguments are now expected in the trial of Sandusky, 68, once a well-respected assistant coach at Penn State, one of the…
Can prosecutors explain the gap in abuse and charges in the Sandusky trial?
Sandusky case: Can prosecutors explain long gap between abuse and charges? (+video) (via The Christian Science Monitor) As the trial of Jerry Sandusky gets underway today in Bellefonte, Pa., the prosecution’s case against the former Penn State assistant coach could turn on its ability to explain the almost 15-year lapse…
Paterno says he was unsure how to handle abuse tip: report
(Reuters) – Joe Paterno, the iconic head of Penn State University’s football program for 46 years fired after former assistant Jerry Sandusky was charged with child sex abuse, said he was unsure of how to deal with the first report about Sandusky that reached him in 2002. “I didn’t know…
Sandusky lawyer tells reporters to call gay phone-sex line
Jerry Sandusky attorney Joe Amendola didn’t do his client any favors Tuesday when he quipped that reporters should call “1-800-REALITY” if they believed his client raped boys. Unfortunately, that number turned out to be a gay phone-sex service. Soon after a hearing where Sandusky, a former assistant Penn State football…
Penn State’s Paterno never raised charges with Sandusky: report
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Ousted Penn State football coach Joe Paterno never confronted former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky with accusations that Sandusky had molested young boys, even though Paterno had reportedly been told of the incidents, the New York Times said on Saturday. In an interview with the Times, Sandusky…
Sandusky charity tells donors: Give elsewhere
(Reuters) – The charity founded by the former Penn State football coach facing explosive child sex abuse charges asked donors on Monday to give money instead to a separate Pennsylvania charity. The Second Mile non-profit, which has been battered by child molestation charges against founder Jerry Sandusky, said it was…
Post-Racial My Black Ass
When you go to an amusement park, you generally don’t expect to have a moment more meaningful than figuring out how many times a roller coaster runs in an hour. Yesterday, I was at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. Having finished a thoroughly underwhelming meal, I was waiting outside of…
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