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Unrelated to the trial but things could get worse for Spanier and the gang.

According to the NBC report: "Internal e-mails and documents they say show former President Graham Spanier and others discussed whether they needed to tell authorities about a 2001 allegation involving a late-night encounter between a naked Sandusky and a young boy in the Penn State shower room. The sources say documents show Penn State even did legal research on the issue. But in one e-mail exchange, two sources say, Spanier and former vice president Gary Schultz agreed it would be 'humane' to Sandusky not to inform social services and the incident never got reported."

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/06/jerry_sandusky_graham_spanier.html

I want more of this. Everyone involved needs to burn.

Speaking confidently and matter-of-factly, Victim 4 told jurors that he felt like he was a Penn State mascot. He got to spend his Saturdays with the Penn State football team. Throw balls around in their practice facilities. Watch games from Beaver Stadium’s sidelines. Travel with the team. Even shower in the locker rooms.

“(I) loved it,” he testified.

But it was all at a cost: The 100-pound teen was forced to wrestle naked in showers with Sandusky, and the linebacker coach would maneuver himself on top until he could force oral sex, Victim 4 testified in court.

That was the price he paid to have Sandusky be “like my dad.”

And it continued for several years, he testified.

Victim 4, now a 28-year-old father, was the first of eight accusers to take the stand. Prosecutors are relying on them and at least two eye-witnesses to make 10 cases of abuse against the former Penn State football great.

Victim 4 said the abuse began in 1997 with shared showers, and car rides where Sandusky would keep his hand on his leg, “like I was his girlfriend.”

“It freaked me out,” he said.

That escalated to games in showers, which led to naked wrestling.

“I’m a little kid, there’s not much I could do. He’s a big guy,” Victim 4 testified. “He’d maneuver himself to be where I was in between his legs.”

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/06/jerry_sandusky_trial_accuser_s.html

i'm i the only one mind blown that anyone would step foot in that shower room ever again? it has to be bulldozed to the ground right? if i'm a recruit, just the fact that that facility is still in use eliminates them from contention...plus, you know, all the other evil crap.

GET EM

This is the way I feel. Why would anyone let their son go there?

Sandusky's defense counsel has to be disbarred after this, right? I'm half joking here but how do you let this go to trial? Sandusky is as good as done and as good as dead once he hits the prison block.

Yeah, I haven't followed this much, but from what I can tell, the only thing they've said is, "ZOMG, THE VICTIMS HIRED CIVIL LAWYERS. IT'S A MONEY GRAB!"

Thanks, just found it on CNN.

Defense attorneys had filed a motion earlier Monday seeking to keep out testimony involving prosecutors' allegations Sandusky exhibited "grooming behavior," including the letters to Victim 4.

The lawyers said they intend to offer expert testimony from a psychologist who "will explain that the words, tones, requests and statements made in the letters are consistent with a person who suffers from a Histrionic Personality Disorder," the documents said.

According to the National Institutes of Health, those with histrionic personality disorder "act in a very emotional and dramatic way that draws attention to themselves."

"The goal of a person suffering from this disorder in writing those letters would not necessarily be to groom or sexually consummate a relationship in a criminal manner, but rather to satisfy the needs of a psyche belabored by the needs of such a disorder," the defense lawyers write in their motion.

While I would normally agree, copping a plea would have pretty much meant a life sentence at Sandusky's age. They probably figured it would be no worse to roll the dice.

That's basically what Kunal just said.

To be fair, Sandusky seems like an expert at "getting off".