Boy seen in shower with Penn State's
Sandusky to testify in retrial bid
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[November 04, 2016]
By David DeKok
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - A man who says
he was the unidentified boy seen in 2001 in a shower with convicted
sexual predator Jerry Sandusky is expected to tell a hearing on Friday
that the former Penn State assistant football coach was a father figure
who never molested him.
The man, identified in court papers as "A.M.", or "Victim #2," will take
the stand for the first time in the case, which led to Sandusky's 2012
conviction for molesting 10 boys. The ex-coach is now seeking a retrial,
reviving a scandal that roiled Pennsylvania State University and the
vaunted football program run by the legendary head coach Joe Paterno.
Victim #2 is expected to say that investigators pressured him to
implicate Sandusky after he initially told them that nothing improper
took place when he and Sandusky were in the locker room shower,
according to court papers filed by Alexander Lindsay, the lawyer
handling Sandusky’s post-conviction appeals.
Victim #2 never testified in Sandusky's trial because prosecutors
concluded that his story had too many holes.
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Sandusky was convicted on the testimony of eight other boys and Michael
McQueary, a former football player and graduate assistant at Penn State.
McQueary testified that he had told administrators that he saw the
ex-coach having sex with a boy who appeared to be eight to 10 years old.
Last month, McQueary was awarded $7.3 million in damages from Penn
State. He accused the university of destroying his career because he
gave information to investigators that led to Sandusky's conviction. He
also accused Penn State of covering up what administrators knew about
Sandusky's conduct.
Lindsay aims to prove that the former coach's original lawyer, Joseph
Amendola, was incompetent. This is the fourth evidentiary hearing to be
held in the appeal.
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Convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky (C), a former assistant
football coach at Penn State University, arrives at the Centre
County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania October 29, 2015.
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By having Victim #2 testify, Lindsay hopes to prove that Amendola
should have called the boy as a defense witness, and should have
objected when state prosecutor Joseph McGettigan told the jury that
Victim #2 was “known only to God.”
Lindsay said in the court papers that Victim #2 will testify that he
initially told investigators that Sandusky was involved in no
misconduct against him and that they pressured him to change his
story.
To show that Sandusky was a mentor to him, the man is expected to
testify that he attended Sandusky’s mother’s funeral, lived with the
Sandusky family as an adult for a period and asked Sandusky to
attend his wedding, Lindsay said in the court papers.
Judge John Cleland is expected to render a decision on Sandusky’s
petition for a new trial at a later date.
(Reporting by Frank McGurty; Editing by Andrew Hay)
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