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Jerry Sandusky’s public persona was almost perfect — a revered Penn State football defensive coordinator who helped lead the team to two national titles then dedicated himself to bettering kids through his charity and in his personal life. On Friday, the state attorney general’s office indicted Sandusky with 40 charges of sex crimes against boys — some dating to Sandusky’s coaching days at Penn State. The indictment follows an almost-three year investigation by the attorney general that started in early 2009, when a Clinton County teen boy told authorities that Sandusky had inappropriately touched him several times over a four-year period. “I just got goosebumps, seriously,” said the mother of one victim after the filing Friday. “I just lived with this for so long, and it killed me when people talked about him like he was a God, and I knew he was a monster.” The charges included 21 felony counts and 19 misdemeanors. They are: 7 counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse of someone under 16, 1 count of aggravated indecent assault of someone under 16, 5 counts indecent assault of someone under 16, 3 counts of indecent assault of someone under 13, 8 counts of unlawful contact with a minor, 8 counts of corruption of minors and 8 counts of endangering the welfare of children. The offense dates include 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2005. The charges were placed on the state court website Friday afternoon, likely by accident. By 5 p.m., they were removed from the site, but the papers appeared again later in the evening. Paperwork that detailed the charges was not filed. Details of the indictment are expected to be released Monday. Sandusky had not been arrested late Friday night. Attempts to reach Sandusky at home were unsuccessful. Messages left with his attorney were not returned. In March, his attorney said that Sandusky denied all of the allegations brought against him and was looking forward to proving his innocence. Attempts to reach Penn State head coach Joe Paterno and university officials were also unsuccessful Friday. The attorney general’s office did not return repeated phone calls. And Gov. Tom Corbett, who was attorney general when the investigation began, would not comment, his spokesman said. At one time, Sandusky was considered Penn State head coach Joe Paterno’s likely successor. During his 32 years on the sidelines, the Centre County resident was credited with turning Penn State into Linebacker U. Sandusky retired from Penn State shortly after the Alamo Bowl in December 1999, and he began devoting all of his time to running The Second Mile, a children’s charity he founded in 1977. Sandusky’s devotion to the charity was the reason he gave for turning down head football coaching jobs at Temple University and the University of Maryland. Last fall, Sandusky retired from day-to-day involvement with The Second Mile, saying he wanted to spend more time with family and handle personal matters.
Investigation
When the criminal investigation began in 2009, Sandusky was a volunteer football coach for the Keystone Central School District in Clinton County. A then-15-year-old student told investigators that Sandusky had abused him several times over a four-year period, starting when he was 10. The Centre County district attorney, citing a conflict of interest, passed the case on to the attorney general’s office. A grand jury was convened, and the investigation that followed included testimony from the likes of Paterno, Athletic Director Tim Curley, and interim Vice President for Finance and Business Gary Schultz. The Patriot-News broke the story of the investigation in March, shortly after that testimony. Thousands of pages of documents were subpoenaed from Penn State University and from The Second Mile. As part of the investigation, authorities went back and took a second look at a report filed to Penn State police in 1998 that alleged Sandusky inappropriately touched a 12-year-old boy as they showered together during a tour of the football locker room. Another boy, now an adult in the armed forces, was named as a witness in the 1998 Penn State police report and has been contacted by state police, his wife confirmed. When reached by phone this year, his mother said she took her son to Penn State police for questioning in 1998 but didn’t listen to the interview. She said she never asked her son what happened. Police investigated that report in May 1998, and then-District Attorney Ray Gricar never pursued charges. A member of law enforcement who was in the room with Gricar said the DA was told about the report, and had two police officers hide in the mother’s home while Sandusky came to her house to talk about what happened. The meeting, according to the source, was Sandusky’s idea. “That mother said to the police, ‘He’s coming over to explain what happened to me,’¤” the source said. “Ray and the detectives decided that they would go to the house to find out what was going on — to hear what he had to say.” A few days later, Gricar got a report back from police. “Ray said ‘I’ll be in touch,’ and he called the chief or supervisors for those detectives. I don’t know what he said, but I know that no investigation or charges were pursued from that point on,” the source said. By June 2, the report was labeled “unfounded” by Penn State police, and the case was closed. The Penn State police officer who led that investigation, Ron Schreffler, is now retired. When approached in March, Schreffler said he couldn’t comment and asked a reporter, “How did you see that report?” Gricar disappeared in 2005 and was declared dead earlier this year. Among those who testified was the mother of Sandusky’s youngest adopted son, a boy he met through The Second Mile, took in as a foster child and later legally adopted as an adult. Matt Sandusky’s mother, Debra Long, told The Patriot-News that she had raised concerns about the behavior of her son and Sandusky once her son went to live with the Sandusky family in 1995. “We tried to stop it back then,” Long said. “We were dragging it to the court system all the time and we couldn’t prevent it. It upsets me, because these kids didn’t need to go through this.”
'Told different things’
Rumors about Sandusky’s conduct began swirling on message boards and football websites soon after he retired from his post at the Second Mile in August 2010. The grand jury investigation generated a roller coaster of speculation, even for the victims. “I’ve been told different things and nothing ever came to pass,” one mother said. “Personally I just thought he was going to get away with it again.” In 1998 her son and a second boy told their stories to police, but no charges came of the incident. She says she felt there were a few people trying to help her son, and many others who were not. “I feel guilty, because I didn’t come forward way back a long time ago and I should have,” she said. “I knew my son would be vilified. It was about protecting my son.” She said hearing that there were more victims following her son’s case was even more heartbreaking. Having multiple victims is not unusual in sex cases, said Tina Phillips, director of training for the Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance. And a case with multiple victims almost always takes longer to investigate, partly because they usually don’t all come forward together. “If there are multiple victims, then sometimes they feel safer to tell what happened to them,” Phillips said. “A lot of times victims will have been told by the perpetrator, ‘No one will ever believe you. People will take my side, not yours.’ Then, other people see that people are listening and they’ll want to come forward and back that story up.”
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In his autobiography, “Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story,” the football legend talked about what he called his personal law, “Jer’s Law.”“I allowed myself to be mischievous, but I didn’t let it get to the point that someone would be intentionally hurt,” he wrote. “I swore I would tell the truth if I was ever caught doing something wrong."
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lilSS wrote:As a fellow Penn State kid, I sincerely hope the school nor Joe and Tim had any knowledge of what was going on. Definitely disgusted and disappointed!
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bigley22 wrote:They both knew. According to an article I read, in 2002 a graduate assistant walked in on Sandusky sexually assaulting a 10 yr. old in the showers of the locker room and reported it to Joe Paterno. Joe then had him tell Tim Curly and Gary Schultz. They simply banned Sandusky from bringing kids into the locker room and never reported it to the police. None of them did. Here's the article from the Pennsylvania Attorney General: http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/press.aspx?id=6270
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I beg your unbelievable pardon?!
KyGrrL25 wrote:Has anyone read this yet? Just disgusting. I hope this trash gets what he deserves. A huge Warning. This describes acts in very graphic detail. I could barely read it myself http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/uploadedFiles/Press/Sandusky-Grand-Jury-Presentment.pdf
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multiplescreennamesfreak wrote:I don't understand why anyone is surprised that PSU covered this up. Schools like this are afraid to report NCAA violations, why would they report a sexual assalt of a minor by an assistant coach of their top sports program, that brings in $$$$$$$$ through television broadcasts, licensing, appearal, etc.??? The damage that would have done to admissions, enrollment, and endowment/fundraising would have been horrendous. No shit they didn't report this. Anyone that thinks PSU, or any Division I school, is about caring faculty and student spirt, is drinking some serious Kool-Aid LOL.
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