Jerry Sandusky, the disgraced former assistant football coach at Penn State, is scheduled to face the public testimony of at least half of the ten boys he is accused of sexually molesting. In a preliminary hearing in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, a town of 6,100 located about ten miles northeast of the Penn State campus, a district judge will determine whether prosecutors have provided sufficient evidence to send the case to trial. The hearing could last two days.Rico says he still shakes his head over people (okay, men) like this. But, you're right, hanging's too good for the likes of Sandusky... Impalement, maybe?
Sandusky, who will be 68 next month, has been charged with more than fifty counts of sexual abuse involving ten boys he met through a nonprofit organization, Second Mile, he founded in 1977 that worked with disadvantaged children.
Sandusky has admitted in interviews, including one with The New York Times, that he showered and wrestled with young boys as a mentor who treated the youths like extended family, but has said he never sexually abused them.
He posted a $250,000 bond and was released from jail last week after facing charges by two additional accusers. Sandusky is confined to his home and must wear an ankle monitor.
Among the accusers expected to testify at the preliminary hearing is a seventeen-year-old known as Victim One. According to prosecutors, he met Sandusky when he was eleven or twelve, and was given gifts like golf clubs, a computer, and cash, and taken to professional and college sporting events. The boy was also victimized repeatedly in Sandusky’s home, prosecutors said.
The molestation charges have brought perhaps the greatest scandal ever witnessed in college sports. Forced out at Penn State were its longtime football coach Joe Paterno and the university president, Graham B. Spanier. Athletic director Tim Curley and the university vice president Gary Schultz, who was in charge of the campus police, have been accused of lying to a grand jury.
Until now, Bellefonte, where the Centre County Courthouse is located on the town square, has been a sleepy place known for its Victorian architecture and as the home to five Pennsylvania governors from the 1800s. But about two hundred members of the news media were expected to cover the preliminary hearing, and traffic on the town square was closed pending the arrival of some thirty television satellite trucks.
13 December 2011
Oh, just hang the sumbitch
Jeré Longman has an article in The New York Times about Jerry Sandusky:
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