June 12, 201214 yr Jerry Sandusky trial's first witness confidently testifies about repeated sexual molestation - Yahoo! Sports Wetzel does a great job recapping this first day of this trail. BELLEFONTE, Pa. – It was late on a long, hot day inside the Centre County Courthouse, and Jerry Sandusky's defense against sexual molestation charges already had been rocked by powerful, personal testimony of an indomitable witness. An unidentified witness (left) testifies on Monday as Jerry Sandusky looks on. (Reuters) As the first day of the trial grinded through an afternoon of testimony, Sandusky's attorney Joe Amendola kept grasping at straws, kept seeking angles to prop up his client as a kind-hearted guy who was the victim of overaggressive police and money-hungry accusers. So he tried to take the words of the trial's first witness, known as Victim No. 4 in court documents, and spin them around. Earlier Monday, the witness, who was a weak 13-year-old boy when he met Sandusky but is now a no-nonsense 28-year-old man, had said the former Penn State defensive coordinator treated him "like a son." Victim No. 4 just shook his head and dismissed the suggestion that anything positive could be gleaned from the description. "He treated me like a son in front of other people," the witness said, sternly, with an air of scolding toward the defense attorney. "Aside from that, he treated me like his girlfriend." As gasps were audibly heard in the courtroom for a line straight off a movie script, Amendola paused, shuffled his notes and kept fumbling as the witness maintained his steely posture. I get a sick feeling in my stomach just reading about this. I hope this suck and twisted man goes away for life.
June 12, 201214 yr Author Dan Wetzel @DanWetzel Mike McQueary testifies he saw #Sandusky in lockerroom shower w boy in 2001. Told JoePa it was sexual in nature without being too detailed McQueary adamant that he considered PSU VP Schultz as "the police" and a "district attorney type."
June 12, 201214 yr Author Documents Reveal Secret File Regarding Sandusky & Sex Abuse « CBS Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Documents filed by the Attorney General’s office indicate new evidence has been uncovered against several former Penn State officials, including Graham Spanier and Gary Schultz. In documents obtained by KDKA-TV investigators, the Attorney General’s Office indicates former vice president Schultz kept a secret file with allegations regarding Sandusky and sex abuse. Sources close to the investigation confirm both e-mails in the file kept by Schultz as well as e-mails found in computer data indicate high-ranking Penn State officials, including Spanier, Schultz and former athletic director Tim Curley, knew about an alleged sexual assault that took place in the Penn State locker room shower. Those documents filed by the Attorney General’s office late Monday indicate Schultz told so many lies in his Grand Jury testimony that it was impossible to respond to each and every one of them. Uh oh...
June 12, 201214 yr He needs to go to a mental hospital so he can get the treatment he needs for this debilitating disease....
June 13, 201214 yr I can't get past the "showering with boys" that Sandusky admits to. When is it ever ok for any child to shower with an adult other than their parent?
June 13, 201214 yr Pedophilia is not a mental illness. He needs to go to a mental hospital so he can get the treatment he needs for this debilitating disease.... I don't understand, you say its not a mental illness, yet you want him to go to a mental hospital to fix his disease?
June 13, 201214 yr I don't understand, you say its not a mental illness, yet you want him to go to a mental hospital to fix his disease? I thought UKMF was being sarcastic.
June 14, 201214 yr Author Jerry Sandusky's small group of loyal supporters includes Joyce Porter, who says he's a 'saint' - Yahoo! Sports BELLEFONTE, Pa. – Joyce Porter sits in a booth at the old downtown Diamond Deli, across the street from the Centre County Courthouse where her friend Jerry Sandusky is being tried on 52 counts of sexually molesting children. She nibbles chicken salad on a croissant and uses a somewhat shocking analogy for why she maintains undying support for the most hated man in Pennsylvania, if not beyond. "When everyone was persecuting Jesus, someone had to stand with him," Porter said. Joyce PorterIt's worth noting that Porter didn't say Jerry Sandusky was Jesus, just that in her view the situation has similarities. Although she does hold the former Penn State defensive coordinator in the highest esteem. "A saint," she said. "A wonderful guy." Porter is part of a select group – the few, the proud, the ultra loyal. Each day of the Sandusky trial, a small cadre of family and friends huddle on the benches in the courtroom's right side, not far from Sandusky's defense table. It's usually just 6-10 people. Considering the charges Sandusky faces, the seemingly endless parade of witnesses providing disturbing testimony against him and the appalling nature of his alleged acts, any support is more than one might expect. They hug Sandusky when he enters the courtroom in the morning. They chat up his attorney, Joe Amendola, during breaks. Some take notes. Others try to help the defense with research or odd jobs. A few report back to Dottie on developments, so she can avoid media coverage. For a defendant and a legal team under siege, they appear to be a welcome refuge. "How is everybody this morning," Amendola said to the group Wednesday. "Bright? Cheery?" When he can, Sandusky walks over to share smiles and the occasional laugh. "I give him a hug every day and tell him I love him," Porter said. Most in the group avoid public comment. A few were willing to talk off the record or on background about Sandusky. Porter is different. She is unabashed in her support even though she knows how angry it makes people. When a picture of her standing behind Sandusky after one legal proceeding appeared in the Altoona Mirror, she received outraged emails from family and friends. "They were like, 'What were you doing there? I'm shocked,' " Porter said. "And I said, 'I've been his friend for 40 years. I'm not going to let that go. He just didn't do these things.' "
June 15, 201214 yr If he did do all that has been said,they need to give him a gun and let him rid himself of this world.
June 15, 201214 yr Author If he did do all that has been said,they need to give him a gun and let him rid himself of this world. The need to give each victim a gun, blind fold Sandusky and make him run around in circles in a gun range.
June 23, 201214 yr Author They found him guilty on 45 of the 48 charges. He will be in jail for the rest of his life. Edited June 23, 201214 yr by HammerTime
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