Sandusky shower victim comes forward

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From the Philly Inquirer:

A man claiming to be the previously unidentified Jerry Sandusky victim raped in a locker room shower in 2001 came forward today with plans to sue Pennsylvania State University, his lawyers said.

A group of attorneys who already represent four other accusers said they determined the identity of the man, now in his 20s, and known in court filings as "Victim 2."

The attorneys alleged their client endured years of abuse at the former assistant football coach's hand when he was a child.

They posted what they said are voice mail recordings from Sandusky to the victim as recently as 2011. In one call, Sandusky asks the man to a Penn State game, and concludes by saying, "I love you."

The man's story figured prominently in Sandusky's trial last month in testimony from Mike McQueary, who said he walked in on the coach raping a child in a football locker room shower.

Prior to his lawyers' announcement today, the victim's identity remained a mystery to prosecutors.

"We have conducted an extensive investigation and gathered overwhelming evidence regarding the details of the abuse he suffered," said the legal team which includes State College attorneys Andrew Shubin and Justine Andronici as well as Philadelphia lawyers Joel Feller and Matt Casey in a statement.

The group also represents Sandusky accusers known as Victims 3, 7 and 10. It also represents Matt Sandusky, the coach's adopted son who made headlines in the waning days of his father's trial by announcing that he, too, had been sexually abused.

Along with their statement Thursday, the legal team released two voice mails Sandusky allegedly left the man just days before his arrest last November.

"Our client has to live the rest of his life not only dealing with the effects of Sandusky's childhood sexual abuse, but also with the knowledge that many powerful adults, including those at the highest levels of Penn State, put their own interests and the interests of the child predator above their legal obligations to protect him," the lawyers' statement said.

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saw this on yahoo. I thought I couldn't hate Sandusky more

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- For months, the identity of the boy who was sexually assaulted in the locker-room showers by Jerry Sandusky was one of the biggest mysteries of the Penn State scandal. Now, for the first time, a man has come forward publicly to claim he was that boy, and is threatening to sue the university.

The man's lawyers said Thursday they have done an extensive investigation and gathered ''overwhelming evidence'' on details of the abuse by Sandusky, the former assistant football coach convicted of using his position at Penn State and as head of a youth charity to molest boys over a period of 15 years.

Jurors convicted Sandusky last month of offenses related to so-called Victim 2 largely on the testimony of Mike McQueary, who was a team graduate assistant at the time and described seeing the attack.

''Our client has to live the rest of his life not only dealing with the effects of Sandusky's childhood sexual abuse, but also with the knowledge that many powerful adults, including those at the highest levels of Penn State, put their own interests and the interests of a child predator above their legal obligations to protect him,'' the lawyers said in a news release.

They did not name their client, and The Associated Press generally does not identify victims of sex crimes without their consent.

The university said it was taking the case seriously but would not comment on pending litigation.

University President Rodney Erickson and the board of trustees, a school spokesman said, ''have publicly emphasized that their goal is to find solutions that rest on the principle of justice for the victims.''

The statement from the man's attorneys said Victim 2 suffered ''extensive sexual abuse over many years both before and after the 2001 incident Michael McQueary witnessed.''

McQueary testified in December at the trial that he had seen Sandusky and a boy, both naked, in a team shower after hearing skin-on-skin slapping sounds.

''I would have described that it was extremely sexual and I thought that some kind of intercourse was going on,'' McQueary said.

McQueary reported the abuse to school officials, including Paterno, but none of them told police. In a recent report conducted by former FBI Director Louis Freeh and commissioned by Penn State, the investigators excoriated Paterno and the other administrators for not attempting to identify Victim 2, saying it showed ''a striking lack of empathy.''

Trustees fired Paterno, who has since died, because he failed to do more about claims against Sandusky, and the scathing independent review said several top school officials looked the other way because they were afraid of bad publicity. The NCAA has vacated 112 Penn State wins.

In a pair of voicemails recorded last year, released with the statement and posted online by the lawyers, a voice that's purportedly Sandusky's expresses his love and says he wants to express his feelings ''up front.''

The voicemails are dated Sept. 12 and Sept. 19, less than two months before the former Penn State coach was arrested on child sex abuse charges. Sandusky was convicted in June of 45 sex abuse counts and awaits sentencing.

The second voicemail asks whether Victim 2 would like to attend Penn State's next game.

Sandusky left ''numerous'' voicemails for their client that fall, the attorneys said.

Before the trial, defense attorney Joe Amendola said he had met with a man he believed he might be Victim 2 and the man told him he had not been abused by Sandusky. Amendola said he was not convinced and did not intend to subpoena him, but also said Sandusky himself was insistent they had the right person.

The statement from Victim 2's lawyers leaves many questions unanswered, including whether he had been in contact with prosecutors before or during the trial, whether he remembers McQueary, and whether he is the same person who met with Amendola.

''Jerry Sandusky's abuse of Victim 2 and other children is a direct result of a conspiracy to conceal Sandusky's conduct and the decisions by top Penn State officials that facilitated and enabled his access to victims,'' the statement read. ''We intend to file a civil lawsuit against Penn State University and others and to hold them accountable for the egregious and reckless conduct that facilitated the horrific abuse our client suffered.''

The statement did not say when the lawsuit would be filed or contain details on what redress the plaintiff is seeking. The lawyers said they would not have further comment, and messages left for their spokesman were not immediately returned.

Several messages seeking comment from Amendola and Sandusky's other lawyer, Karl Rominger, were not immediately returned.

Prosecutors had said on several occasions they did not know the identity of the boy, and they offered no reaction to the lawyers' announcement Thursday.

''We can't comment, given both our ongoing criminal prosecutions and our ongoing investigation,'' said Nils Frederiksen, spokesman for the attorney general's office.

The attorneys who released the statement include several based in Philadelphia and in State College, home to Penn State's main campus - where the shower assault took place.

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I mean, WTF???:

In a pair of voicemails recorded last year, released with the statement and posted online by the lawyers, a voice that's purportedly Sandusky's expresses his love and says he wants to express his feelings ''up front.''

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It's like that NYC pedo who turned to his victim during sentencing and declared his love. These people are sick sick sick.

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Jul 26, 2012 13:23:58 GMT -5 IIOY said:

It's like that NYC pedo who turned to his victim during sentencing and declared his love. These people are sick sick sick.

That's why he could never lie and say, "Absolutely not! I would never touch those boys!" Because he seemingly has no idea that having sex with children is a problem.

This poor kid having this sick fucker contacting him to this day? I effin' hate Sandusky.