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Sandusky In Jail After State Attorney General Files New Charges

Dec 7, 2011

Peter Hall and Andrew McGill

Jerry Sandusky was jailed Wednesday after two new accusers said the former Penn State coach sexually assaulted them at his home, at a tony State College hotel, in his car and on the university campus.

One of the alleged victims, an 18-year-old identified as Victim 9, told a grand jury that Sandusky attempted to anally penetrate him on at least 16 occasions in the basement of Sandusky's State College home about seven years ago.

"The victim testified that on at least one occasion he screamed for help, knowing that Sandusky's wife was upstairs, but no one ever came to help him," the grand jury report says.

The other new accuser, identified as Victim 10, said Sandusky performed oral sex on him during wrestling sessions in the basement of Sandusky's home more than a decade ago. The alleged victim said he ended his relationship with Sandusky after an incident in the former defensive coordinator's car.

The alleged victim was riding in the passenger seat, when Sandusky allegedly opened his pants and asked the boy to perform oral sex on him.

"Victim 10 testified that after that, he told his foster mother he did not wish to spend any more time with Sandusky," he said.

Sandusky was taken to the Centre County Correctional Facility under $250,000 cash bail following an arraignment on the 10 new charges Wednesday afternoon before District Judge Robert E. Scott in Bellefonte, Centre County.

Scott increased Sandusky's bail from $100,000 to $250,000. If Sandusky is able to post bail later, he will be subject to electronic monitoring and house arrest and will be barred from speaking to victims and witnesses or having unsupervised contact with minors.

Following the hearing, Sandusky's attorney Joseph Amendola was critical of state authorities who arrested Sandusky at his home without contacting his attorney. Amendola said he learned of Sandusky's arrest from reporters and rushed to the district judge's office.

"They've known all along that Jerry would turn himself in, he wanted to turn himself in again, they knew that but they do things the way they do things," Amendola said.

Asked about the latest charges, Amendola said, "The reaction is that Jerry says he's innocent and that these are two additional accusers and we'll take them one at a time and see what the evidence is."

He added that Sandusky and his wife, Dorothy, are devastated by the additional allegations.

The new charges include two counts each of indecent deviate sexual intercourse, indecent assault, unlawful contact with minors, corruption of minors and endangering the welfare of children.

Both of the new accusers have come forward since charges were initially filed against Sandusky. The attorney general's office charged Sandusky Nov. 5 with 40 counts of sexually abusing children between 1994 and 2009.

The first of the new accusers met Sandusky around 2004 when he was 11 or 12 and participating in a summer camp organized by The Second Mile, a charity for disadvantaged children Sandusky founded in 1977.

The other new accuser met Sandusky through The Second Mile in 1998 when he was 10.



Source: (c)2011 The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.)


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