Jerry Sanduksy's wife bails him out of jail, calls new sex allegations "absolutely untrue"

(CBS/AP) STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Dottie Sandusky is standing by her man.

CBS Pittsburgh reports that on Thursday, she signed a $50,000 certified check to help bail her husband Jerry Sandusky out of jail after he'd been arrested on new charges stemming from allegations that he sexually abused two more boys.

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And on Wednesday, Dorothy "Dottie" Sandusky, issued a public statement expressing her belief in her husband's innocence and denying new reports that Sandusky sexually abused boys in the basement of their home while she was upstairs.

"I am so sad anyone would make such a terrible accusation which is absolutely untrue," she said.

The alleged victim testified that Jerry Sandusky kept him in a basement bedroom during overnight visits to the home, fed him there, forced him 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.

Dottie Sandusky, who raised six adopted children with her husband, disputed this.

"No child who ever visited our home was ever forced to stay in our basement and fed there," she said in her statement. "All the kids who visited us ate with us and our kids and other guests when they were at our home."

Dottie Sandusky, 68, has not been accused of any crimes, but in Pennsylvania - which allows spouses to testify against one another in cases of violence or sex abuse against children - she could be called to testify against her husband. Experts who spoke with the Associated Press said that prosecutors in this case would likely want to speak with her.

"Certainly if the activities are alleged to have occurred in the home, yeah, the prosecutors are going to figure, `Jeez, you were in the house at the time this was going on? You must have known something,"' said Bruce Antkowiak, a former federal prosecutor in Pittsburgh and a law professor at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa. "I would certainly think there would be interest in talking to her."

Jerry Sandusky, 67, faces criminal accusations from 10 men who claim he molested them when they were boys in his home, on Penn State property and elsewhere. He has vowed to fight the case and, in interviews with NBC and The New York Times, he said he showered and horsed around with boys but never sexually abused them.

So far, one alleged victim has filed a lawsuit against Sandusky and legal experts told the AP that Dottie Sandusky couple face other lawsuits in the future. Lawyers say they are likely to bankrupt her if she doesn't seek a divorce.

"Make no mistake, Dottie has a financial interest in this because once these criminal cases are decided, there will be civil suits by each and every victim, and those victims' suits will go after all the (Sanduskys') assets," said Susan Moss, a New York City-based family and divorce lawyer.

Joseph T. Musson, a civil litigation lawyer who read Wednesday's grand jury report, told the AP that he saw nothing in the victim's statement that on its face would give rise to criminal or civil liability for Dottie Sandusky.

But, Musso said, "ordinary people will likely ask themselves, `How does she not know what's going on?"'

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