Why did Jerry Sandusky's wife call abuse victim weeks before his testimony

[elehhhhna]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2060914/Jerry-Sandusky-Penn-State-sex-abuse-Why-did-Jerry-wife-abuse-victim-weeks-testimony.html#ixzz1dbKmopgx

[Cirque du So-What]

1. I believe Dorothy Sandusky should be charged separately

She cannot be compelled to testify against her husband, but she enjoys no such protection if she is charged separately as an aider, abettor & enabler.

[coalition_unwilling]

9. No matter how Mrs. Sandusky is charged, she cannot be

compelled to testify, i.e., she cannot be compelled to testify against her husband and she cannot be compelled to testify against herself. Please re-read your 5th Amendment.

[msanthrope]

16. Not quite accurate. See, Commonwealth v. Spetzer, in PA, she can be

compelled to divulge confidential communications between herself and the Mr because they might involve his plans to rape/murder/commit serious offenses. Majority held that these types of communication were NOT the type of marital communication envisioned by the PA legislature when it granted spousal privilege.

She can claim the 5th, but that is for her own perfidy, not his.

Link for case--and irony of ironies.....look at the DA.

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/pa-supreme-court/1163210.html

[Cirque du So-What]

13. I realize what you're saying

If charges are leveled against her, however, she can be compelled to give testimony that is not incriminating to her husband...if any exists.

[msanthrope]

17. She can be compelled to give incriminating evidence against her husband in PA

Commonwealth v. Spetzer---

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/pa-supreme-court/1163210.html

Holy CRAP!!!! look at the DA on that one. Karma, maybe?

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[Botany]

3. She had to know about "it"

Sandusky took his wife and a young boy to bowl games in 98 & 99.

[firehorse]

4. Self interest. Probably worried about messing up the status quo of her income, name, etc.

[Avalux]

5. Sandusky and wife were spotted at the gym working out yesterday morning...

A friend was at Wolfe Furniture in State College yesterday, and the salesman helping him said he saw them at the gym that morning, working out as if they didn't have a care in the world.

I think Dorothy is probably in deep, deep denial.

[Hepburn]

6. Many years of deep denial.

IMO, there is no way she did not know or should have known.

[tuckessee]

7. Was she tipped off about the grand jury investigation?

Considering the way State College, Pa. has rallied around their pedohile heroes it wouldn't surprise me.

[fishwax]

10. it's been public knowledge since the end of March

and JS knew he was being investigated even before that, iirc.

[TheWraith]

8. Probably to try to get him not to testify, I would imagine.

It's not that hard to puzzle out.

[tnvoter]

11. She was doing her husband's bidding

I think she knew all along. There no way she did not know. The fact that he spent so much time "tucking in" the kids each night would have set off alarms for me....

someone needs to interview the adopted kids....

[tnlefty]

14. Welcome tnvoter!! I found this yesterday after seeing part of an

interview with the reporter on CNN.http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/11/who_knew_what_about_jerry_sand.html

It's rather long and the info. is under the header Early Concerns. While no allegations of abuse are specified it mentions that the biological mother, Debra Long, of the youngest adopted son, Matt, expressed concerns about her son while he was in foster care in the Sandusky home and that she and Matt both testified before the grand jury.

It make the hair on the back of my neck stand up a little.

Greetings from the Chattanooga area! :hi:

[slackmaster]

12. Auto-Unrec for citing the Daily Mail

:nuke:

[msanthrope]

18. I've seen it on the local news here, and other written sources. nt

[msanthrope]

15. Maybe Ginny Thomas told her it was a good thing to do? nt