Sandusky child abuse trial

Jerry Sandusky spent two decades as a defensive coach for Penn State University under legendary coach Joe Paterno, who retired in after Sandusky's arrest. Sandusky has long maintained his innocence. He regularly attended his father's court proceedings alongside his mother, Dottie Sandusky, who also has consistently supported her husband and fought to clear his name.

A state trooper said in the arrest affidavit that last November, their father turned over to investigators text messages from Sandusky in which he asked one of the girls for nude photographs.

The affidavit said Sandusky told the teen in texts from March that "it's not weird because he studied medicine" and instructed her "to not show these texts to anyone.

The girl's mother told investigators that when she confronted Sandusky, he told her "he knows it was wrong and inappropriate," police said. The girl told police the texts made her uncomfortable and that "he kept pressuring me and asked me multiple times not to show the texts to anyone," police said. Another, a foster child, said Sandusky warned that he would never see his family again if he ever told anyone what happened. And just hours after the case went to jurors, lawyers for one of Sandusky's six adopted children, Matt, said he had told authorities that his father abused him.

Matt Sandusky had been prepared to testify on behalf of prosecutors, the statement said. The lawyers said they arranged for Matt Sandusky to meet with law enforcement officials but did not explain why he didn't testify.

It didn't go into details about his allegations. Defense witnesses, including Jerry Sandusky's wife, Dottie, described his philanthropic work with children over the years, and many spoke in positive terms about his reputation in the community.

Prosecutors had portrayed those efforts as an effective means by which Sandusky could camouflage his molestation as he targeted boys who were the same age as participants in The Second Mile, a charity he founded in the s for at-risk youth.

Sandusky's arrest in November led the Penn State trustees to fire Paterno as head coach, saying he exhibited a lack of leadership after fielding a report from then-graduate assistant Mike McQueary.

The scandal also led to the ouster of university president Graham Spanier, and criminal charges against two university administrators for failing to properly report suspected child abuse and perjury. The two administrators, athletic director Tim Curley and now-retired vice president Gary Schultz, are fighting the allegations and await trial.

Sandusky had initially faced 52 counts of sex abuse. The judge dropped four counts during the trial, saying two were unproven, one was brought under a statute that didn't apply and another was duplicative.

The man, now 25, testified that Sandusky called himself the "tickle monster" in a shower assault. He declined to comment to a reporter afterward, but his mother said: "Nobody wins. Having won a significant monetary settlement from the university after winning a wrongful discharge case in , McQueary is living in northern Virginia and has equity stakes in several business ventures. The former FBI director is held by many Penn State alums as the singular force, more than any other, who cemented the damaging narrative that Paterno, Spanier and other senior managers at Penn State turned a blind eye to accusations about Sandusky in order to preserve the reputation of the venerated football program.

Freeh was badly injured in a auto accident in Vermont , but he has since returned to work. His private investigative firm that was hired by Penn State trustees to lead the internal investigation at was acquired by the consulting firm Alix Partners last year.

Freeh is a managing partner. She left the network in after the birth of her daughter and is currently working as a free-lance journalist and adjunct professor at the University of Florida, where she is a journalism fellow at the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information. Ganim is married to attorney Danny Cevallos. Disbarred, but having served her minimum eight-month sentence, Kane left prison on parole in Efforts to reach her for this report were not successful.

Baldwin, 76, told PennLive she is fully retired now. Charles Thompson, pennlive.