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Breaking News: Sandusky Jury Has Reached a Verdict

Posted: June 22, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: just because |23 Comments

UPDATE: Guilty on 45 of 48 counts!

Jerry Sandusky has been remanded to custody and very likely will never get out of prison.

 

ABC News:

The jury in the sex abuse trial of former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky has reached a verdict, court officials announced.

Sandusky and his lawyers along with prosecutors have been summoned to court to hear the verdict.

The jury of seven women and five men were sequestered during deliberations.

Sandusky is charged with 48 counts of sex abuse against 10 boys he allegedly groomed through a charity he operated. If convicted, he could be sentenced to life in prison.

I’ll update as I get more information.

As testimony in the trial concluded, Sandusky’s adopted son Matt revealed that he had also been a victim of abuse by his father.

Hours after the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse case went to the jury Thursday, one of the former Penn State assistant coach’s adopted children came forward with the bombshell accusation that his father abused him.

Attorneys for Matt Sandusky, 33, released a statement saying their client had been prepared to take the stand as a prosecution rebuttal witness and tell the jury his harrowing story.

“During the trial, Matt Sandusky contacted us and requested our advice and assistance in arranging a meeting with prosecutors to disclose for the first time in this case that he is a victim of Jerry Sandusky’s abuse,” Andrew Shubin and Justine Andronici said in the statement. “At Matt’s request, we immediately arranged a meeting between him and the prosecutors and investigators.

This wasn’t surprising to anyone who has the most basic knowledge about pedophiles. I had long suspected it, because at the outset of the Penn State scandal, Matt Sandusky’s wife had requested and received a restraining order to keep Jerry Sandusky away from her children.

Jerry Sandusky had been planning to take the stand during his trial, but he changed his mind after a meeting in the judge’s chambers in which he was probably told that his son was willing testify against him in rebuttal.

23 Comments on “Breaking News: Sandusky Jury Has Reached a Verdict”

  1. bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
    June 22, 2012 at 9:01 pm

    Creepy letters that Jerry Sandusky sent to victim #4.

    http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/i-team/jerry-sandusky-wrote-letters-victim-4-prosecution-releases-text-media-article-1.1100488

  2. janicen's avatar janicen says:
    June 22, 2012 at 9:10 pm

    Wow. 45 guilty, 3 not guilty.

  3. bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
    June 22, 2012 at 9:17 pm

    Birth mother of Matt Sandusky speaks out. She reported Sandusky to authorities years ago but no one would listen.

    Debra Long told ABC News in an exclusive interview that sharing her now 33-year-old son Matt with Sandusky had been a nightmare after the coach became the boy’s guardian via foster care in 1995. Long says that she watched as her child became enamored with the local hero and then increasingly frightened by Sandusky’s behavior.

    “It was Jerry Sandusky, you know? Any 10-year-old kid is going to be impressed by Penn State football,” Long said. “And then it was the gifts. You know, money and clothing and whatever … It was as if Jerry owned Matthew.”

    Sandusky entered the lives of the Longs as a mentor when Matt was 10 years old, via The Second Mile charity for at-risk youth, which the former Penn State defensive coordinator founded. When Matt was placed in juvenile hall after he set fire to a barn in 1995, he soon entered the Sandusky home as a foster child. He was adopted by Sandusky as an adult at age 18.

    • bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
      June 22, 2012 at 9:21 pm

      “It wasn’t until Jerry came into the picture that Matt started acting out in school. Matt ended up burning down a barn with another youth, you know — it wasn’t until Jerry came into the picture … that mentor turned him from the quiet, good kid into — what Jerry could use to take him.”

      Four months after moving into the Sandusky’s home Matt attempted suicide, along with another girl who was staying in the house.

  4. bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
    June 22, 2012 at 9:22 pm

    They are saying the sentence will likely be at least 60 years.

    • janicen's avatar janicen says:
      June 22, 2012 at 9:24 pm

      I’m so glad he will never be able to rape another child. How disgusting and tragic that it went on for so long.

  5. SweetSue's avatar SweetSue says:
    June 22, 2012 at 9:36 pm

    Thank God, I was worried about the trial being held in Sandusky’s home town.
    I saw his weird neighbor/enablers on Anderson Cooper’s show and thought he might escape justice.
    I hope, with all my heart, that the rapists of little girls meet a similar fate.

  6. minkoffminx's avatar JJ Lopez Minkoff says:
    June 22, 2012 at 9:44 pm

    What Sandusky’s lawyer is saying is so strange…isn’t it?

    He is justly getting heckled…

  7. quixote's avatar quixote says:
    June 22, 2012 at 9:55 pm

    It’s good his garbage is finally over. It shouldn’t be this difficult.

  8. HT's avatar HT says:
    June 22, 2012 at 11:05 pm

    Thank goodness he’ll never be able to abuse another child. Sometimes there is justice…this is one of those times. He’ll probably be kept in isolation in jail – As Dak stated, prisoners don’t like kiddie rapists.

  9. gxm17's avatar gxm17 says:
    June 23, 2012 at 10:29 am

    Excellent news! What a relief. I was really stressing this one. So afraid the jury would put its head in the sand like so many have done with JS. And kudos to McQuery for being the one lone adult with a shred of conscience.

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