UPDATE: Guilty on 45 of 48 counts!
Jerry Sandusky has been remanded to custody and very likely will never get out of prison.
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.
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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
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwww
Wow. 45 guilty, 3 not guilty.
According to Andersen Cooper.
It’s so strange that I feel a sense of relief for the victims and their families. I hope this gives them some peace.
Stopping him from doing more damage is significant … this guy was not going to stop and he had plenty of enablers.
yup!
I just updated the post.
This deranged man can rot in jail………………just rot away.
He’ll be fortunate if that’s his karma … jail population isn’t kind to child molesters
Birth mother of Matt Sandusky speaks out. She reported Sandusky to authorities years ago but no one would listen.
They are saying the sentence will likely be at least 60 years.
I’m so glad he will never be able to rape another child. How disgusting and tragic that it went on for so long.
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.
it’s karma’s turn now
What Sandusky’s lawyer is saying is so strange…isn’t it?
He is justly getting heckled…
It’s great to see you!!!
Here’s something interesting and off topic:
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/02.02/11-meditate.html
Meditation found to increase brain size
I don’t understand how lawyers do that. Yes, I understand their importance to society and everyone deserves a defense, blagh blagh, but on an individual level I think it must just be soul-killing. You know damn well your client is guilty, but it’s basically your job to go out and bold-faced lie and keep this facade up all the time, never letting on with a wink or a nod. I think it would be really hard.
It’s good his garbage is finally over. It shouldn’t be this difficult.
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.
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.