Jerry Sandusky Guilty On 45 Of 48 Counts

June 22, 2012 | Filed under Scandals,School Sex Scandals | Posted by

Jerry Sandusky, the retired Penn State defensive coordinator who shocked everyone with allegations of sexual deviancy toward young boys, has been found guilty on 45 of 48 counts. The jury in the case deliberated for two days, reaching a verdict earlier tonight. Under court order, the verdict could not be reported until court had been adjourned.

Sandusky’s bail has been revoked and he was taken into custody where he will spend the next few months awaiting sentencing. Sandusky could be looking at life in prison for his crimes, despite being found “not guilty” on three counts. His own adopted son came forward after the case had already been given to the jury and claimed that Sandusky had abused him as well.

Not a surprise at all that Jerry Sandusky was found guilty. Earlier, his own lawyer stated that he would be shocked if Sandusky was acquitted. From CBS News in Philadelphia:

The jury announced the verdict sometime after 9:45 p.m.

The courtroom was closed by the time the jury and attorneys assembled for the verdict, and no one was be allowed to leave until court until it was adjourned, the judge said in a court order earlier in the week. The verdict was read count by count. Media was barred from transmitting any results of the verdict until adjournment, with the judge promising sanctions for any reporter or media organization violating his order.

Earlier in the evening, Sandusky’s lawyer said he would be shocked and “die of a heart attack” if the former Penn State assistant football coach were acquitted on all counts in his child sex abuse trial.

A sad chapter closes at Penn State University, however the scars of this man’s abuse will linger, perhaps forever.

UPDATE: Complete breakdown of charges.

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  • herddog505

    At times like this, I miss burning at the stake.

  • retired.military

    I believe that he will probably commit suicide within a year. Just glad he is off the street.

    • Jwb10001

      Let’s hope not let’s hope for many happy years sharing a cell with the biggest badest bastard in the big house.

  • retired.military

    If you listened to the statements from his lawyer talking about the jury and judge you would have thought they had won an acquittal.

    • jim_m

      Maybe his attorney is setting the ground for an appeal based on incompetent counsel.

      • http://wizbangblog.com Kevin

        It wasn’t a very good defense, but then again his client didn’t have a very good case to make for himself.

  • SteveCrickmore075

    Sexual abuse of children has been occuring for eons, and just as long, its denial or pretending it doesn’t exist. Even Sigmund Freud couldn`t believe or rather chose to ignore or cover-up cases of obvious hideous sexual child abuse in his patients, and attribute it falsely to a new theory of childrens’ sexual imagination he developed after 1896, when he first lectured on the real childhood sexual incidents from his Viennese patients, and was met with incredulity about his findings, from the professional medical society.

    But, it is still hard to believe, everyone, supposedly much more enlightened and worldly now, missed Sandusky’s admisisons in his autobiography, “Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story,” published in 2000.

    “Pretending has always been a part of me”., Sandusky, wrote in his autobiography, “I’ll never regret being called a ‘great’ pretender”. Except for his wife and daughter, Sandusky hardly mentions women and girls in the book. Instead, he refers time and again to “special” boys he has grown close to over the years. They meant as much as, if not more than, football….

    The walls of Sandusky’s home and office were covered with photographs of children he befriended. “They are kids that have touched my life and have been a part of me for a long, long time,” he writes. “They are people that I can never leave about hugging kids, about loving to be around kids, (boys, of course). Sandusky’s book doesn’t dwell much on his gridiron glory days — either as a player or as a coach. His coauthor, Kip Richeal, a former Penn State equipment manager, says the coach was so focused on children he had to prod him to include football tales. “That’s what you’re famous for,” (not anymore).

    • GarandFan

      Michael Jackson was unavailable for comment.

  • GarandFan

    His lawyer is incompetent. But he gets great press coverage!

    As for Jerry. Meet Bubba. Now let’s go to the showers!

  • UOG

    It doesn’t reflect well on me but I have to honestly admit I’d like to see Sandusky incarcerated in the general prison population in FL, GA, TX… well, any big college football state other than CA.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Paul-Hooson/100002939023994 Paul Hooson

    State Penn? He tried to major in minors.? Some folks are removing those JERRY SANDUSKY FOR PRESIDENT bumper stickers today. Others are willing to give the guy one more chance.

  • jim_m

    “Nobody wins. We’ve all lost.” – Mother of one of the victims.

    She’s right of course. Nobody wins here.