Jerry Sandusky leaves the Centre County Courthouse on June 22, 2012, after being found guilty of 45 of 48 charges he faced in his sexual abuse trial. Sandusky was convicted of sexually assaulting 10 boys over 15 years Friday, accusations that had sent shock waves through the college campus known as Happy Valley. (Centre Daily Times -- Nabil K. Mark)
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Former longtime Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, known for his charitable work with at-risk children and for helping establish the school's "Linebacker U" reputation, was found guilty of 45 of 48 charges that he sexually assaulted 10 boys over 15 years in Centre County, in a scandal that ended the 46-year tenure of football coach Joe Paterno.The 68-year-old Sandusky's bail was revoked, and he was taken to county jail June 22 after the jury returned the 45 guilty verdicts. He is to be sentenced about three months from June 22.
His attorney said the convictions would be appealed.
Sandusky was arraigned Nov. 5 in Centre County court and released on $100,000 unsecured bail after prosecutors charged him with abusing eight boys. A second set of charges was filed Dec. 7, adding two alleged victims, and a judge ordered Sandusky held overnight until he could post $250,000 cash bail.
Sandusky waived his preliminary hearing Dec. 13.
He originally was charged with 52 counts, but prosecutors dropped one charge on June 18 saying the statute he was charged under did not apply at the time of the alleged illegal contact. The judge dismissed three other charges June 21: two counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and one count that the judge said was the same as another charge.
Penn State athletic director Timothy Curley and the school's senior vice president for finance and business Gary Schultz have been charged with perjury and failure to report suspected child abuse in relation to sex-abuse charges filed against Sandusky. On Dec. 16, a judge held Curley and Schultz over for trial. They
Former Penn State coach Joe Paterno gets into a car outside of his State College home on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011. At the time, Paterno's son had said his father had no intentions of stepping down. The next day Paterno had announced his retirement, and later that night he had been fired. (Daily Record/Sunday News - Jason Plotkin)
maintain their innocence.Paterno and university president Graham Spanier were fired Nov. 9 by the board of trustees. Paterno had come under harsh criticism for not taking more action in 2002 after a graduate assistant reported seeing Sandusky in the Penn State showers with a young boy. Paterno notified Curley and Schultz. Paterno was not a target of the criminal investigation before his death on Jan. 22.
Curley asked to be placed on administrative leave Nov. 6 in order to devote the time needed to defend himself against the allegations, according to Penn State officials.
Schultz also stepped down Nov. 6 in order to defend himself and return to retirement, and Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary, a key witness in the case, was placed on administrative leave, effective Nov. 11.
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Read the Attorney General's news release about the charges against Sandusky, two Penn State officials
Read a synopsis of the grand jury presentment against Sandusky
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