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Helped Police Investigation Into Alleged Sex Crimes | Pennlive.Com 1/8/12 7:54 AM Jerry Sandusky's book, 'Touched,' helped police investigation into alleged sex crimes | PennLive.com 1/8/12 7:54 AM Brought to you by: Sign in | Register for free Site Search Search Local Business Listings Search for keywords, people, locations, obituaries, Web ID and more... Home News Opinion Sports Entertainment Living Interact Jobs Autos Real Estate Rentals Classified Ads Shop News The Patriot-News Politics Business Weather Obituaries Lottery Special Projects State, U.S. & World More News 'Iron Chef' Michael Outdoor Classic an Top Photos: Under Armour Symon opening airport amazing experience for All-America Game Stories restaurant... Bears Home > Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News > Breaking News Jerry Sandusky's book, 'Touched,' helped police investigation into alleged sex crimes Published: Sunday, January 08, 2012, 12:01 AM By SARA GANIM, The Patriot-News Follow Recommend 13 people recommend this. Be the first of your friends. 10 Share Tweet 41 Email Print 0 The investigation of Jerry Sandusky took three years. And it took Sandusky himself — through the pages of his autobiography, “Touched” — to help More Breaking Midstate News with police find Victims 3, 4, 5 and 7. The Patriot-News Most Comments Most Recent At the end of 2009, police had spent almost a year trying to corroborate claims by a single boy — a 17-year-old Clinton County teen later known as Victim 1 — who had alleged years of sexual abuse Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News stories with the most by Penn State’s legendary defensive coach. Only one state police investigator had been tasked to comments in the last 2 days. handle the case. Bill O'Brien, new Penn State 67 football coach, says he's 'mentally tough,' can handle Finally, they discovered a campus police report from 1998, in which a boy had said he was forced to challenging situation take a naked shower with Sandusky in the Penn State locker room and was inappropriately touched. Harrisburg Mayor Linda With that, investigators learned the key 59 Thompson presses for an had been right in front of them. appeal of former staffer's claim for jobless benefits The 1998 boy was called Victim 6 by Penn State alumni group wants 47 to replace trustees over Joe the grand jury. After police found him, Paterno's firing the man’s mother told them about Former Penn State quarterback Sandusky’s autobiography, which was 35 Kerry Collins calls on lettermen sitting on the shelves of the Penn State to support coach Bill O'Brien bookstore. Penn State interim coach Tom 30 Bradley calls report of his firing inaccurate, says he was only A Google search of the name “Jerry relieved of interim duties, Sandusky” would have revealed the source says Enlarge JOE HERMITT, The Patriot-News book in seconds. Jerry Sandusky and with his wife Dottie are surrounded by police as they make their way to his preliminary hearing at the Centre County Victim 6’s mother and sister sat down courthouse. Sandusky was charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse of minors. JOE HERMITT, The Patriot-News with police, flipped through the pages of Jerry Sandusky preliminary hearing gallery (60 Sandusky’s book, and quickly identified photos) http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/01/jerry_sanduskys_book_touched_h.html Page 1 of 8 Jerry Sandusky's book, 'Touched,' helped police investigation into alleged sex crimes | PennLive.com 1/8/12 7:54 AM boys who had often attended football games together. That led police to identify four more alleged victims, according to Victim 6’s mother. Revelations like this only fuel the questions that persist about how Gov. Tom Corbett — who was attorney general at the time — handled the Sandusky case. Three years elapsed between the time the Clinton County boy came forward and the day that Sandusky was charged in November. Corbett and current State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan have insisted it is flat-out wrong to suggest Corbett wanted the investigation to move slowly during his campaign for governor. Both have said investigators waited to find evidence to corroborate Victim 1’s claims. But that evidence didn’t really come until early 2011 — after Corbett left the attorney general’s office — and Noonan bumped the number of investigators on the case from one to eight. Most Active Users What's this? Users with the most Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News comments The mother of Victim 6 told her story to The Patriot-News because she said she wants to set the in the last 2 days record straight about a claim by Sandusky’s attorney, Joe Amendola. The Patriot-News is withholding her name to protect the identity of 23 PurplePeople... Victim 6. After waiving Sandusky’s preliminary hearing in December, as he held a three-hour news conference 14 JollyHo on the courthouse steps, Amendola claimed that the boys who have alleged crimes against Sandusky in the 1990s all got together and concocted their stories because they envisioned big payouts from lawsuits against Penn 10 losekey State. Victim 6’s mother is outraged at the willynelson Attorney Joe Amendola on new charges filed against 10 Jerry Sandusky charge. Amendola says Sandusky is "scratching his head" about new child sexual abuse charges filed by Attorney General Linda Kelly. “Amendola’s right; they all knew each 10 rothenbj Watch video other. They went to the football games together,” Victim 6’s mom said. “But to think they all got together? No. They went down [to the grand jury] kicking and screaming. They each thought they were the only ones. My son knew them, and he didn’t know it happened to them, and they didn’t know it happened to Connect with PennLive.com my son. It wasn’t something they spoke about.” What's this? Instead of volunteering the information to police, she said most of the boys had to be subpoenaed by a grand jury and forced to testify. It was only when they realized they weren’t the only ones that they began to cooperate, she said. All Facebook & Twitter accounts » “Not one of those boys came forward,” she said. “These kids tried not to talk to police. Several times Recommendations they didn’t call back. And in some cases [the police] had to go and knock on their doors. [Amendola’s] full of bologna when he says they colluded, because they never knew it happened to Memo tells Harrisburg police to kill, adopt or dump abandoned or lost dogs anyone else.” 2,609 people recommend this. Rick Santorum says he's against welfare Unpursued case for 'blah' people, not 'black' people: report 566 people recommend this. Victim 6’s mom said police hadn’t yet gone through “Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story,” when she All Vietnam Navy veterans deserve Agent was interviewed. Orange benefits 102 people recommend this. Bill O'Brien reportedly agrees to become Looking at the book jogged the memory of Victim 6’s sister, who told police about one boy who had Penn State football coach been in her class in middle school. During lunch one day, she remembered kids talking about 90 people recommend this. Sandusky being a hero. The boy shouted that he “hated his guts,” and ran out, her mother said. “Did you have to take showers with him, too?” she asked later. Facebook social plugin http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/01/jerry_sanduskys_book_touched_h.html Page 2 of 8 Jerry Sandusky's book, 'Touched,' helped police investigation into alleged sex crimes | PennLive.com 1/8/12 7:54 AM “How did you know?” the boy answered. From Our Advertisers “It happened to my brother, too,” she • Sinbad at the Strand-Capitol in York on January 14. www.strandcapitol.org said. • Fantastic Dining in Central Pennsylvania - Click here • Pre-planning = peace of mind for your Police told Victim 6’s mother that they loved ones at Hoffman-Roth Funeral Home had been hearing rumors within law Advertise With Us » enforcement about the 1998 case that then-prosecutor Ray Gricar decided not to pursue. State police found the file about a year after the investigation started, got her number and called her up. Gricar is the former Centre County View full size JOE HERMITT, The Patriot-News/file district attorney who went missing in The Penn State Bookstore sold the autobiography of former coach and What's this? accused sex offender Jerry Sandusky, "Touched." Popular Tags 2005 and was declared dead in July. It isn’t known why Gricar decided not to barack obama budget carlisle prosecute. crash cumberland county ed rendell fire flooding Around the same time that police were contacting the mother of Victim 6, they also knocked on the harrisburg harrisburg debt door of assistant coach Mike McQueary and asked him if rumors were true that he’d interact jerry sandusky linda witnessed something in the locker room on campus. thompson lower paxton township news links pennsylvania budget What police determined over the next 12 months would eventually lead to more than 50 counts of philadelphia robbery shooting snow sex abuse involving 10 boys. Sandusky waived his preliminary hearing and is free on bail awaiting trial. He has maintained his innocence. state police susquehanna township tom corbett tropical storm lee Amendola, Sandusky’s attorney, did not respond to requests for interviews. weird news Victim 6’s mother said police told her they believed prosecutors could have gone further. “At one point police told me they’ve had less evidence in murder cases,” she said. “I kept being told, March, April, June, October. ... The AG kept asking for more evidence. The police told me they had enough for 400 counts, but the AG wanted only 40.
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