Gerald Arthur Sandusky was born on January 26,1944 and is an American convicted serial child molester and a retired college football coach.
50 Facts About Jerry Sandusky
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Jerry Sandusky served as an assistant coach for his entire career, mostly at Pennsylvania State University under Joe Paterno, from 1969 to 1999, the last 22 years as defensive coordinator.
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Jerry Sandusky received "Assistant Coach of the Year" awards in 1986 and 1999.
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Jerry Sandusky authored several books related to his football coaching experiences.
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In 1977, Jerry Sandusky founded The Second Mile, a non-profit charity serving Pennsylvania's underprivileged and at-risk youth.
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Jerry Sandusky met his molestation victims through The Second Mile; they were participating in the organization.
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On June 22,2012, Jerry Sandusky was found guilty on 45 of the 48 remaining charges.
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Jerry Sandusky was sentenced on October 9,2012, to 30 to 60 years in prison.
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On October 18,2012, Jerry Sandusky's lawyers appealed his conviction in Centre County Court in Pennsylvania.
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On October 31,2012, Jerry Sandusky was moved to Pennsylvania's SCI Greene "supermax" prison to serve his sentence.
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Jerry Sandusky was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1944, the only son of Evelyn Mae, an Irish Catholic homemaker who came from a small Pennsylvania coal-mining town, and Arthur Jerry Sandusky, whose parents, Edward and Josephine Sendecki, were immigrants from Poland who moved to East Vandergrift, Pennsylvania.
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Jerry Sandusky improved the facilities there by adding a new playground, gym, outdoor basketball court, and a renovated football field.
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Jerry Sandusky managed the 1955 Washington baseball team that won the Pony League World Series championship, the only team from Washington to win that championship.
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At home, Jerry Sandusky adopted his own personal code called "Jer's Law" that he observed for many years.
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The rules adopted were that Jerry Sandusky could be mischievous but not to the point where someone could be intentionally hurt; he vowed to not be disrespectful to his teachers; and he swore to himself that he would tell the truth if he was caught breaking any rules.
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Jerry Sandusky is a fan of the 1994 film Forrest Gump, confiding to one of his victims that he identifies with the title character.
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Jerry Sandusky attended Washington High School, where he was a good student and standout athlete, playing baseball, basketball, and football.
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Jerry Sandusky was a leader on his junior high basketball team that went undefeated through the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League playoffs in his final season there.
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Jerry Sandusky's classmates have described him as a studious "loner" who "never dated in high school" but was a popular and handsome athlete.
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Jerry Sandusky married Dorothy "Dottie" in 1966, and together they have six adopted children.
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Jerry Sandusky, is an assistant football coach at West Chester University.
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Jerry Sandusky described his family as "old fashioned", with Dottie being the leader.
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Jerry Sandusky was a member of St Paul's United Methodist Church in State College.
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Jerry Sandusky played for Rip Engle at Penn State, starting at defensive end from 1963 to 1965.
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Jerry Sandusky served as a graduate assistant under Paterno at Penn State in 1966.
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Jerry Sandusky was the assistant basketball and track coach at Juniata College in 1967 and the offensive line coach at Boston University in 1968.
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Jerry Sandusky returned to Penn State in 1969 and remained there as an assistant coach until his retirement at the end of the 1999 season.
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Jerry Sandusky served as defensive line coach in 1969, became linebacker coach in 1970, and was promoted to defensive coordinator in 1977, holding that position until his retirement.
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Jerry Sandusky's final game coaching at Penn State was a notable game for Sandusky.
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The indictment came after a three-year investigation that explored allegations of Jerry Sandusky having inappropriate contact with an underage boy over the course of four years, beginning when the boy was ten years old.
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At least 20 of the incidents allegedly took place while Jerry Sandusky was still employed at Penn State.
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At the preliminary hearing, McQueary testified that he "believed" Jerry Sandusky was having "some type of intercourse" with the boy.
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Jerry Sandusky was released on $250,000 bail and placed on monitored house arrest while he awaited trial.
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The witness further testified that when he attempted to distance himself from Jerry Sandusky, Jerry Sandusky offered the boy a contract for money to continue spending time with him.
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Jerry Sandusky had been ready to testify for the prosecution, but did not do so.
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Later, Amendola said that Jerry Sandusky had every intention of testifying in his own defense, but decided against it because he claimed that the prosecution would have called Matt to the stand.
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Jerry Sandusky faced a maximum sentence of 442 years in prison.
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In pronouncing the sentence, Cleland said that Jerry Sandusky was a particularly dangerous breed of child molester because he masked his manipulation and abuse of children behind a respectable facade.
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The report asserts that these emails demonstrate that in 1998 Paterno knew of the investigation of Jerry Sandusky, and followed it closely; and suggest that it was Paterno, "long regarded as the single most powerful official at the university," who persuaded Spanier, Curley, and Schultz not to formally report Jerry Sandusky to law enforcement or child welfare authorities.
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The report criticizes Paterno for his failure to "alert the entire football staff, in order to prevent Jerry Sandusky from bringing another child into the Lasch Building".
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The report states that Jerry Sandusky had access to the Lasch Building until November 2011.
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CBS News reported that the United States Postal Inspection Service is leading an investigation to see whether Jerry Sandusky sent child pornography through the mail across state lines.
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Jerry Sandusky served time on home confinement prior to his trial and sentencing.
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The time he served on home confinement, from the day of his second arrest, to the day of his sentencing, was not counted as credit towards his prison sentence, meaning Jerry Sandusky's sentence began on the day of his sentencing.
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On October 23,2012, Jerry Sandusky was transferred to Camp Hill state prison in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, for pre-imprisonment evaluation.
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Jerry Sandusky was then moved to Greene state prison in Franklin Township, where most of the state's life and capital inmates are housed, on October 31,2012, to serve his sentence.
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On December 3,2014, KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh reported that Jerry Sandusky received a letter from Penn State asking to renew his season ticket plan for the football team and attend a "recruiting" trip to a Penn State basketball game.
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Jerry Sandusky was transferred to SCI Somerset, a medium-security prison outside Somerset, Pennsylvania, in March 2017.
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Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus would testify in his defense as a specialist of repressed memory, as many victims' testimonies against Jerry Sandusky are allegedly based on repressed memories.
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Jerry Sandusky granted his first interview for television since his conviction on NBC's Today show on March 25,2013.