Sandusky prison letter blasts Penn State settlements with victims

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Sandusky prison letter blasts Penn State settlements with victims

By Daniel Kelley
PHILADELPHIA | Thu Aug 29, 2013 4:20pm EDT

(Reuters) - Disgraced former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, who was convicted of sexually abusing boys, in a letter from prison lashed out at the school's legal settlements with his victims.

Sandusky, who last year was convicted of 45 counts of abusing 10 boys over a 15-year period, in a letter to a documentary filmmaker seeking to exonerate Sandusky's former boss, Joe Paterno, argued that the school didn't take steps to defend its employees.

"The only concern from the beginning of this by administrators and trustees has been to protect their image," Sandusky wrote. "They didn't question what they called 'victims,' instead they opened their arms and offered settlements, psychologists, public events and media presentations."

Sandusky, who has denied any criminal activity, raised his complaints in a hand-written letter dated August 20 to filmmaker John Ziegler, who runs a blog called "The Framing of Joe Paterno."

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[shraby]

1. The man is certifiably insane.

[msanthrope]

2. The libertarian talk show host John Ziegler has taken up this cause--I wonder if the Paterno

family is paying him to rehabilitate his image.