The jury in former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky’s child sex abuse trial has reached a verdict: guilty on 45 counts of sexual abuse. He will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Jurors announced the verdict Friday night after weighing 48 charges accusing him of abusing 10 boys over a 15-year period. He faces a minimum of 60 years in prison.
The panel had listened to seven days of testimony, including from eight young men who said they were his victims. Jurors also heard about two other alleged victims through other witnesses.
Sandusky didn’t take the stand.
The defense case had consisted largely of character witnesses who defended Sandusky’s reputation, a psychologist who said Sandusky had a personality disorder and the ex-coach’s wife, who said her husband didn’t do anything inappropriate.
His lawyers also suggested the accusers had a financial motive to make up stories and that investigators coached witnesses.
This incident cost former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno his job as well, and he died shortly after. Westboro Baptist church was so upset about it that they planned on picketing Paterno’s funeral.
Here he is being lead out of court:
via TheWordEyeHeard
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