BELLEFONTE, Pa. It was late on a long, hot day inside the Centre County Courthouse, and Jerry Sandusky's defense against sexual molestation charges already had been rocked by powerful, personal testimony of an indomitable witness. An unidentified witness (left) testifies on Monday as Jerry Sandusky looks on. (Reuters)
As the first day of the trial grinded through an afternoon of testimony, Sandusky's attorney Joe Amendola kept grasping at straws, kept seeking angles to prop up his client as a kind-hearted guy who was the victim of overaggressive police and money-hungry accusers.
So he tried to take the words of the trial's first witness, known as Victim No. 4 in court documents, and spin them around. Earlier Monday, the witness, who was a weak 13-year-old boy when he met Sandusky but is now a no-nonsense 28-year-old man, had said the former Penn State defensive coordinator treated him "like a son."
Victim No. 4 just shook his head and dismissed the suggestion that anything positive could be gleaned from the description.
"He treated me like a son in front of other people," the witness said, sternly, with an air of scolding toward the defense attorney.
"Aside from that, he treated me like his girlfriend."
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Accuser number 4 directly told his side of the child rape story. Sandusky is finally getting his. A little late but finally.