Sandusky jailed on new child sex abuse charges

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Ex-Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested and jailed Wednesday on new child sex abuse charges brought by two new accusers, including one who claims Sandusky molested him numerous times in a basement bedroom, according to authorities.

The claims bring the number of Sandusky's alleged victims to 10 and he now faces more than 50 charges stemming from accusations he molested boys for years on Penn State property, in his home and elsewhere.

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The scandal has raised questions about whether Penn State officials did all they should have to stop the alleged activity and ended the careers of the school's president and legendary football coach Joe Paterno.

Jerry Sandusky is arrested at his home, Dec. 7, 2011.

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Sandusky, 67, was first arrested last month and has said repeatedly that he is innocent. The latest charges were brought after new accusers were questioned by a grand jury, which issued another report detailing chilling new allegations of abuse.

Sandusky lawyer Joseph Amendola said after the arraignment Wednesday that he had not yet read the latest grand jury report, but said he has no reason to doubt Sandusky's claims of innocence. Sandusky was unable to immediately post a $250,000 bail and was taken to jail.

Like earlier accusers, both of the new alleged victims told the grand jury they met Sandusky through The Second Mile charity for at-risk children that he founded in 1977.

"As in many of the other cases identified to date, the contact with Sandusky allegedly fit a pattern of `grooming' victims," Attorney General Linda Kelly said in a statement. "Beginning with outings to football games and gifts; they later included physical contact that escalated to sexual assaults."

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One of the new alleged victims, dubbed Victim 9 by prosecutors, claims he was first assaulted in 2004, and the other, called Victim 10, told the grand jury he was assaulted after being referred to Second Mile in 1997.

The ninth accuser, currently 18, was 11 or 12 when he first met Sandusky in 2004. Sandusky took him to Penn State football games and gave him gifts and money, and later sexually assaulted him during overnight stays in a basement bedroom in Sandusky's home, the grand jury said.

The accuser said that Sandusky forced the boy to perform oral sex and attempted on at least 16 occasions to anally penetrate him, sometimes successfully. "The victim testified that on at least one occasion he screamed for help, knowing that Sandusky's wife was upstairs, but no one ever came to help him," the grand jury report said.

The 10th accuser told the grand jury he was referred to The Second Mile in 1997, when he was 10 and experiencing problems at home. He also attended Penn State games, spent time at Sandusky's house, and was subjected to "wrestling sessions" in the basement of the home that led to Sandusky performing oral sex on the boy, authorities said. The accuser also detailed incidents at a pool on the Penn State campus, and a time when Sandusky allegedly exposed himself in a car and requested oral sex from the boy.

A law enforcement source told CBS News that Sandusky was arrested by state police and agents of the Attorney General's Office at his home.

As he left his arraignment Wednesday in Bellefonte, Sandusky did not say anything or make eye contact with about two dozen reporters and photographers. Agents from the state attorney general's office then drove him to the Centre County Jail after he was unable to post bail.

Booking mug for Jerry Sandusky, Dec. 7, 2011

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If he is able to pay, Sandusky will have to submit to electronic monitoring and house arrest, have no contact with victims or witnesses and have no unsupervised contact with minors.

"It may well be that Jerry's going to be in jail for the overnight into tomorrow until we can sort this out," Amendola said.

Prosecutors had sought $1 million in bail.

The new conditions ordered by Senior Magisterial District Judge Robert E. Scott are a stark contrast to the $100,000 unsecured bail Sandusky was granted last month by a local judge.

Also Wednesday, The Second Mile said in a statement that it has lost significant financial support and that some employees will be laid off over the next several months. It didn't say how many staffers would be cut.

[jackpold]

ill never understand why it takes 20 years or more for these victoms to come forward and now make claims that they were abused ,,in nyc when i was fourteen riding the subway in train hallway fell asleep little and the man in front of me grabbed my ***** with his hand behind his back ,,i woke quickly felt him ,,i yelled and pushed the man forward ,the other men on train asked what happened i told them ,they grabbed the guy punched him few times and threw him off train next stop,,why does it take so long to report

[lislin]

What happened to you is certainly disturbing and upsetting it is much different than what these boys went through. They were abused by someone they knew. Someone who was supposed to be helping them, someone that the whole community supported. He had relationships with these boys and he manipulated them and abused them over and over and over. I am sure these victims were scared to come forward and I am sure some were ashamed somehow thinking they were to blame. It is heartbreaking...

[tardalova]

Sick man, needs to be sent to prison for life. Pen state needs to make sure all of these kids get compensated and make sure they get a chance at a education at the Universities expense.

[Red1963]

I would like to know how many more of you jerk off going to say that coach messed with you to. WOW its all about money for this place. What you people need to do that coming and telling everybody that you was messed with YEARS AGO needs to get a life. Hey I need money maybe I will LIE like these jerk off are doing. GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jhihmoac]

Will we ever hear and end to this monster's notoriety?

[smittyc]

Wow, Penn State University was a participant in this? We had a coach/teacher in our H.S. who watched us in the showers and we all knew and made it quite plain his presence was unwelcome and to stop. Believe you me, he stopped because he knew we were going to beat him if he didn't and that is a fact. There were plenty of students and teachers at Penn State who were aware of this mans behavior.

[MenInMyTown]

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[williamjd2011]

The day of rekoning has come. What a sick man. How could he have got away with this for all these years. Why didn't someone speak up sooner. He will probally be diagnosed as insane and spend the rest of his day's in a Hotel prison somewhere like martha stewart was in. Does this man and his lawyers expect us to believe that everyone of his accusers are lier's. It's ashame about Paterno though. What a sad closing to such a remarkable career.

[nfission]

Just put him in front of a firing squad and get it over with. It's obvious he cannot function in our society without bringing tremendous harm to children. I'm really fed up with these sickos. There is no cure for pedophilia. He will always be a dangerous demented deranged pedophile, and he will deny it til the day he dies.

[dccarino]

Scum will get street justice in prison when he is finally convicted.

[smittyc]

Very true, the prisoners have their own code of ethics and rules.

[cattiej]

This guy needs to be denied bail and I wonder if he has contacted many of the boys he molested and ask them not to tell how he did molest them and when. If all this is true and he is found guilty, I hope he rots in hell. Does the State of Pennysylvania have the death penalty?