Jerry Sandusky

Jerry Sandusky's wife, Dottie Sandusky, testified Tuesday that she did not see any inappropriate contact between him and the eight accusers who offered graphic testimony last week and that the Sandusky home was a welcoming place for them. Jerry Sandusky, 68, a retired Penn State assistant football coach, has pleaded not guilty to sex abuse charges. ___ Q: WHAT ARE THE CHARGES? A: Sandusky is charged with 51 counts of child sex abuse involving 10 alleged victims over a 15-year span dating back to the mid-1990s.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Former Penn State President Graham Spanier became the highest paid public college president of 2011-12 when he was forced out over his handling of the sex abuse scandal involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, according to a survey released Sunday. The Chronicle of Higher Education's annual ranking of public college presidents' earnings said Spanier's $2.9 million pay, which included $1.2 million in severance and $1.2 million in deferred compensation, put...

BELLEFONTE, Pa. — There was a kind of pep rally on the steps of the Centre County courthouse here Friday night after Jerry Sandusky was found guilty of 45 counts related to sexually abusing boys. There were teary-eyed hugs, shrieks of joy and high-fives all around. In an ordinarily quiet cul-de-sac about 10 miles down the road in Lemont, the triumphant crackle, burst and flare of fireworks lit up Sandusky's front lawn. His closest neighbors — expressing their collective relief — had cause for celebration, too. ...

NEW YORK — NBC pulled the plug Friday on Brian Williams' newsmagazine "Rock Center" after a short, troubled life in which it failed to find a consistent home on the network's prime-time schedule. The show's final broadcast will be on June 21, NBC Universal News Group Chairwoman Pat Fili-Krushel said in a memo to her staff. "Rock Center" premiered on Halloween 2011 and news executives preached patience then, saying it would take awhile to get established. Bob Costas' interview...

BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Jerry Sandusky rested his elbows on the wooden lectern and leaned toward the judge. He didn't speak of remorse or plead for leniency, as many convicted felons do at sentencing. Instead, the former assistant football coach launched into a rallying speech, the type he might have once presented during an especially tough game at Penn State, where some remember him as "Touchdown Jerry. " "We're definitely in the fourth quarter now," said Sandusky, 68, who was convicted in June on 45 counts of sexually...

BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Seven months after Jerry Sandusky was arrested and charged as a serial child molester, his attorneys presented the first full day of his defense, bringing to the stand his supportive wife, Dottie , a rash of loyal friends and a psychologist who said he'd recently diagnosed Sandusky with a condition called histrionic personality disorder. The defense also called two state troopers to the stand and tried to show that they had coached a key prosecution witness into...

Bellefonte, Pa. — Jerry Sandusky has chosen to remain silent. After much anticipation that the former Penn State assistant football coach would directly address the child sex abuse charges against him, Sandusky's lead attorney, Joe Amendola, faced Judge John Cleland late Wednesday morning and said, "Your honor, at this time the defense rests. " The prosecution quickly announced that it would not offer rebuttal witnesses. Such was the anticlimactic end of testimony in the Sandusky trial, which...

These letters are among six written by Jerry Sandusky to a boy referred to in a grand jury report, and also at Sandusky's trial on child molestation charges, as "Victim 4. " The text below was transcribed by a Washington Post reporter from images shown to the news media on a screen in court Friday afternoon during jury deliberations after the letters were admitted into evidence. Note: The Washington Post does not generally print the names of alleged sex abuse victims, so [Victim 4] or [----]

Joe Paterno was a liar, there's no doubt about that now. He was also a cover-up artist. If the Freeh report is correct in its summary of the Penn State child molestation scandal , the public Paterno of the last few years was a work of fiction. In his place is a hubristic, indictable hypocrite. In the last interview before his death , Paterno insisted as strenuously as a dying man could that he had absolutely no knowledge of a 1998 police inquiry into child molestation...

Coming today at 4 p.m. on this page and in Sunday's Washington Post: Sally Jenkins's exclusive interview with Joe Paterno, his first extensive comments on the Penn State scandal and its fallout. UPDATE: Paterno back in hospital for observation Paterno, 85, worked in the Penn State football program for more than 60 years, the final 46 as head coach. His 409 coaching victories are the most in the history of college football's top division, and he is a...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The supervising judge for the grand jury that investigated how former administrators handled Penn State's high-profile child sex-abuse scandal said in a new court filing that the defendants are intentionally stalling their criminal case with repeated motions and appeals. "In this court's view, defendants' various motions, appeals and assertions (all of which are within their rights) are an attempt to delay the case from being heard before the proper tribunals,"...

I wasn't trying to be subversive when I hired a male babysitter this month. But it is apparently something that few parents would do. Most are too spooked by Jerry Sandusky and the endless parade of other child molesters in the news. These creeps are almost always male, and they almost always find a way to work with kids . So parents aren't being paranoid about the stranger danger that surround our kids. It's a very real and totally frightening phenomenon. Still, here's what I'm wondering: Have our...

People across the nation are expressing their concern for the health and career of Robert Griffin III, one of the finest young men to represent Washington on the national stage. So imagine my shock to read, while Griffin was still on an operating table, that Courtland Milloy had chosen such a moment to grind his ax regarding the Redskins' name and logo [" What's in a name? For the Redskins, bad karma ," Metro, Jan. 9]. Milloy wrote that the reason Griffin "limp[ed] into battle on that injured knee" was because of...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The low sun hid behind a lower ceiling of gray clouds late Tuesday afternoon here as Michael Mauti — helmet on his head, pads over his shoulders and thighs — watched a trainer tape his hands, preparing for another practice in a career of practices. Nearly five years ago, he came here the son of one former Penn State player and the brother of another. He has since performed the duties and suffered the indignities of a linebacker. He has endured surgeries on both knees.

Nearly all adults in the District would be held liable if they fail to report suspected child sex abuse under a bill tentatively approved Thursday by the D.C. Council. The legislation, which comes in the aftermath of the Penn State University sex-abuse scandal, would greatly expand existing city laws requiring mandatory reporting for government workers, teachers and counselors who work closely with children. After reports surfaced at Penn State that some adults failed to report...

Graham B. Spanier , the former president of Penn State University who lost his job amid the school's infamous football sex-abuse scandal, has been criminally charged with covering up reports that former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky had abused young boys on campus. Pennsylvania's attorney general said Thursday that a grand jury had found evidence that Spanier was part of a "conspiracy of silence" to cover up abuse in Happy Valley, making him the highest-ranking university...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The low sun hid behind a lower ceiling of gray clouds late Tuesday afternoon here as Michael Mauti — helmet on his head, pads over his shoulders and thighs — watched a trainer tape his hands, preparing for another practice in a career of practices. Nearly five years ago, he came here the son of one former Penn State player and the brother of another. He has since performed the duties and suffered the indignities of a linebacker. He has endured surgeries on both knees.

BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Jerry Sandusky's attorneys opened their client's defense Monday by calling to the stand two former coaching colleagues who said that it was routine for adults and boys to shower together in large public locker rooms. Richard Anderson, a college teammate and Penn State coaching colleague of Sandusky's, was the first to testify, and vouched for the defendant's "wonderful" reputation. When asked by prosecutor Joseph McGettigan III if he had seen Sandusky showering with...

A Nobel Peace Prize winner and Penn State University climate science professor has sued a Washington-based think tank and a national magazine that called his scientific findings fraudulent and compared him to Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State football coach convicted of numerous counts of child molestation . In a 37-page complaint filed Monday in D.C. Superior Court, Michael Mann and his attorney John B. Williams, charged the National Review...

BELLEFONTE, PA. — Jerry Sandusky sat about 10 yards away from the second row of a packed courtroom. His feet were bound. His face and body appeared old and gaunt in a red jumpsuit that hung from his frame like oversized medical scrubs. "Centre County" was stenciled in black on the back. His head was cocked slightly to the side, like that of a curious puppy. If we're being honest, he looked much more meek than monstrous on the day Joe Paterno's former defensive...