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Jerry Sandusky Re-Arrested On Additional Charges That He Performed Oral, Anal Sex On Pre-Teen Boys
Jerry Sandusky was re-arrested on 12 additional charges of sexual abuse today. He was reportedly dressed in a Penn State track suit at the time of his arrest in State College. While "at least" five more people have come forward with allegations against the former football assistant since the origina...
Jerry Sandusky Applied For A Coaching Job Last Year, Was Rejected For Pretty Obvious Reasons
The investigation into Jerry Sandusky's alleged sex abuse of the boy now known as Victim 1 began in 2008, and a grand jury was impaneled in 2009 to look into claims from additional victims, but that didn't stop ol' Jerry from seeking a job as a volunteer assistant coach at Division III Juniata Coll...
Now A 19-Year-Old Says Jerry Sandusky Abused Him At A Penn State Football Building In 2004
That would be two years after Sandusky was to have had his keys to the facility taken away by Penn State officials, according to the grand jury summary, though Sandusky himself has acknowledged his access was never restricted. The boy, who is not one of the eight victims cited by the grand jury, sa...
Report: All Eight Accusers Will Testify Against Jerry Sandusky At Next Week's Hearing
The preliminary hearings for Jerry Sandusky's child abuse case begin at the Centre County Court in Bellefonte, Pa., a week from today, and an ABC News report indicates that all eight alleged victims will testify against him....
Paterno, Chairman Of Jerry Sandusky's Charity Were Pursuing $125M Real Estate Deal When Sandusky Was Caught Allegedly Sodomizing Boy
One might be tempted to say this thickens the plot, but let's resist temptation and merely state the facts: When Mike McQueary told Joe Paterno in 2002 that he'd seen Jerry Sandusky raping a 10-year-old boy in the shower, Paterno was in business with longtime Second Mile board chairman Robert Poole ...
At Least Jerry Sandusky's Dog Understands Him
For some reason passing understanding, Jerry Sandusky sat down with The New York Times this week for an interview. The entire thing was recorded on audiotape and portions of the interview were videotaped. Although you should definitely read and watch—if only to see Sandusky squirm—there's not much ...
Stuff Jerry Sandusky's Lawyer Says Just Keeps Backfiring
Yesterday, we learned that lawyerin' boob Joe Amendola had bragged to Sara Ganim of the Patriot-News of Harrisburg that four of the eight victims cited in the grand jury report recently had "friendly encounters" (Ganim's phrase) with Amendola's client, Jerry Sandusky. Amendola even went so far as t...
For Some Strange Reason, Penn State Is Now Worried About Fundraising
December is the month for giving, and Penn State officials are humping the phones trying to persuade donors to keep the cheese flowing in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal. Doesn't look good so far: "[M]ore than a dozen people who had planned to leave an inheritance to the school have changed t...
Penn State Makes Joe Paterno's Firing Official In Appropriately Undignified Setting
The Penn State Board of Trustees needed only four minutes this morning to formally toss Joe Paterno out the window, and this was the scene. That's right: JoePa got shitcanned via teleconference in what looks like Meeting Room 3 of the nicest Best Western in Happy Valley. God, that's sad. You half-ex...
Jerry Sandusky's Charity Settles Lawsuit Brought By Alleged Victim A Week Ago
That was fast. Last Wednesday, a man claiming to be a new Sandusky victim came forward to sue The Second Mile (and Sandusky and Penn State, as well). The man, known as John Doe #4, claimed to have been sexually abused by Sandusky more than 100 times from 1992 to 1996, including in Sandusky's home, t...
Jerry Sandusky's Lawyer Is Just Throwing Shit Against The Wall Now
That creepy interview Jerry Sandusky did with Bob Costas a couple of weeks back was pretty much viewed as a disaster by everyone except Joe Amendola, the attorney representing Sandusky who permitted it to happen. And now, amid news that additional victims continue to come forward to allege Sandusky...
Penn State Recently Bought Four .XXX Domain Names, Should Have Bought More
Visionaries at Penn State snatched up four .xxx domain names for the school this September, according to The Daily Collegian. New .xxx URLs go on sale to the public next week, but trademark owners like PSU got a chance to lock down their porn names early so as to prevent any scuzzing up of their bra...
My Second Mile: How I Grew Up With The Now-Doomed Organization
I was a Second Mile kid. Now that the organization I grew up with, founded by disgraced Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, is likely to fold, I want to write an obituary for the program as most of us knew it....
New Accuser Sues Jerry Sandusky, Claiming Over 100 Incidents Of Sex Abuse
Yet another alleged Jerry Sandusky victim has come forward. The man is not one of the eight alleged victims in the grand jury presentment that led to Sandusky's arrest. He's a new one. And he's suing Sandusky, Penn State, and The Second Mile charity in Philadelphia court. ...
Penn State's Student Newspaper Has Put Its Sex Column On Hold
Called "Mounting Nittany," it typically ran with headlines like "Let's talk sex, hugs, and handjobs." The column last ran on Nov. 3, two days before Jerry Sandusky turned himself in. Its author decided it would "not be 'respectful to those who have been affected by sexual assault' to write the colu...
Jerry Sandusky Has Hired A Private Investigator So He Can Get To The Bottom Of These Claims
Sarah Ganim of the Patriot-News reports that alleged child rapist Jerry Sandusky has hired his own private investigator to look into claims of child sex abuse against him. If you're keeping track, there are now something like five investigations underway: Penn State's internal investigation, the NCA...
Penn State May Have Broken Federal Law By Trying To Cover Up What It Knew About Jerry Sandusky
The Clery Act requires universities to disclose criminal acts and, under certain circumstances, to issue a warning for particular threats. Starting today, the U.S. Department of Education is thus looking into whether Penn State's actions violated federal law. Also, per the New York Times, as many a...
Sandusky Victim's Mother Recalls Town Reaction: "Our Football Team Is Going To Lose And It's All Because Of Your Son"
Two stories have been published today that shed a harrowing light on the awful circumstances faced by the boy identified by the Penn State grand jury summary as Victim 1:...
New Abuse Allegation Against Jerry Sandusky Came From A Family Member, His Lawyer Says
More disquieting news from the Patriot-News, which is withholding the details of the child's familial relationship to Sandusky: "The attorney for Jerry Sandusky says one of the two new cases of alleged sexual abuse under investigation by Children and Youth Services was made by a family member. ... T...
How Grand Juries In Pennsylvania Make It Impossible For Jerry Sandusky To Get A Fair Trial
Pennsylvania grand juries don't issue indictments. They issue detailed and often-provocative "presentments" of alleged crimes. Because of that, "The name "Sandusky" is already synonymous with "monster" without a witness ever having been sworn in open court." [Huffington Post]...