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June 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Defense lawyer Joseph Amendola countered that some of the alleged victims had
hired civil lawyers and had a financial interest in pursuing the criminal
case.
Sandusky sat still as the first witness explained that he began showering with
the former assistant coach in 1997, when he would have been about 13 years
old. The man said he had met Sandusky through The Second Mile, the
children’s charity the assistant coach had founded.
The witness spoke calmly and firmly when questioned by McGettigan. Wearing a
white shirt, dark tie and dark pants, he looked straight ahead at McGettigan
during questioning. He gestured at times when asked to describe interactions
with Sandusky.
“He would put his hand on my leg, basically like I was his girlfriend
… it freaked me out extremely bad,” the man said, extending his right
arm out and pushing it back and forth.
“I pushed it away … after a little while, it would come right back.
That drove me nuts,” he said.
Pictures of Sandusky and the then-boy were shown at times on a video screen.
The man was asked to identify photos handed to him by McGettigan, including
those with Penn State football players, but rarely looked over when the
pictures were displayed on a screen large enough for jurors to see.
The man said he stayed either at his mother’s or grandmother’s home at times.
He never told his grandmother.
“No, no way. I was too scared to … The other things were nice. I
didn’t want to lose that,” he testified.
A self-described college football fan, the man said he enjoyed the access to
Penn State football games and facilities. At one point, the man said,
Sandusky let him wear the No 11 uniform of LaVar Arrington. Prosecutors also
showed a picture of the man, as a boy, with Arrington.
The man testified that Sandusky also took him to postseason showcase games. He
also gave him golf clubs, snowboards, drum sets and various Penn state
memorabilia including a watch, the man testified. He said he would wear gift
jerseys to school.
The witness said that, as he got older and after he got a girlfriend, he was “basically
getting sick about what was happening to me.”
He testified to one alleged interaction before a game banquet in Texas, in a
hotel bathroom before taking a shower, that Sandusky pushed down on him in a “downward
motion.”
The man said he resisted, when he testified that Sandusky responded, “You
don’t want to go back (home), do you?”
Asked by McGettigan to clarify, the man said “that he was trying to get
me to have oral sex, and threatening me if not.”
He said about 10 seconds later, Sandusky’s wife, Dottie, called out from
another room, and that an apparently surprised Sandusky left the bathroom.
Sandusky also sent the man letters, he testified. One shown briefly on a video
screen in court was a handwritten on Penn State letterhead, signed “Jerry.”
“I know that I have made my share of mistakes,” the letter read. “However
I hope that I will be able to say that I cared. There has been love in my
heart.”
The man described some of the correspondence as “creepy love letters …
Others would be, ‘Hey, do you want to come to a football game?’ Those kinds
of things.”
The man said he was reluctant to co-operate with the investigation into
Sandusky.
Under cross-examination by Amendola, the witness said: “I feel if I just
said something back then … I feel responsible for what happened to other
victims.”
He also said he had spent years “burying this in the back of my head.”
“I thought I was the only person,” he said. “I just came to
terms with that and just wanted to go away.”
Last week, the trial judge said the accusers couldn’t testify under aliases.
The Associated Press typically doesn’t identify people who say they are
victims of sex crimes.
During his opening statement, McGettigan told jurors he would prove that the
abuse involved boys Sandusky met through The Second Mile and that it took
place “not over days, not over weeks, not even over months, but in some
cases over years.”
McGettigan called The Second Mile, which Sandusky established in 1977, the “perfect
environment for the predatory paedophile” and his way to get close to
his victims.
Amendola said the young men who would take the stand were accusers, not
victims.
Amendola said the defence will argue that Mike McQueary, the football team
assistant who reported seeing Sandusky naked in a shower in 2001, was
mistaken about what he saw.
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