Source: www.newyorker.com – Friday, June 22, 2012
UPDATE: Late Friday night, Sandusky was convicted on forty-five of forty-eight counts: he faces a sentence of between sixty and more than four hundred years. A haunting, and telling, piece of testimony in the trial of Jerry Sandusky came after the eighteen-year-old known as Victim 1 talked about how, when he was about thirteen, Sandusky groped him and then performed oral sex on him when he stayed over at his house. Mike Dawson, for McClatchy , described Victim 1's account of what happened next, one summer night at bedtime: "He sat there and looked at me and said something along the lines of 'it's your turn' and he made me," he stopped, covering his face with his hands, "he made me put my mouth on his privates." "It's your turn": in that phrase, there's a glimpse of a particularly cruel means of compulsion that seems to have been used on the boys he is accused of sexually abusing or raping. Sandusky told them, again and again, that they owed him. All of the boys had family situations that left them vulnerable; a number of them were coming from or headed for foster homes, and were supposedly being helped by Sandusky, a Penn State defensive coach, and his Second Mile foundation. That includes Matt Sandusky, the youngest of six children Sandusky adopted, who now, at the age of thirty-three, has joined his accusers. Sandusky has pleaded not guilty, and the jury is deliberating now. The jurors were sequestered before Matt, through his
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