Victim Number 1, Aaron Fisher, a.k.a. the reason Jerry Sandusky is off the streets, has penned a book ‘Silent No More’. The book addresses the abuse he was subjected to and how he found the courage to speak out. He is hoping telling his story will inspire others to speak out about sexual crimes against them. This is an issue that women and men face daily. Click below to read more.
For the past four years, since he first came forward to say that former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky had sexually abused him, he’s been known as Victim Number 1.
But now, the young man who was a key witness in Sandusky’s trial is ready to share his name, the horror of the abuse he suffered and how he found the courage to speak out.
Aaron Fisher, 18, has written a book, Silent No More: Victim 1’s Fight for Justice Against Jerry Sandusky, with his psychologist, Mike Gillum, and his mother, Dawn Daniels, to be published on Oct. 23 by Random House.
“Saying sexual abuse has happened was hard,” says Fisher in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, on newsstands next week. “But I wanted to help people see that it is better to come forward and tell somebody than to be silent.”
It took Fisher – who says he was abused by Sandusky from the ages of 12 to 15 – three years before he found the courage to tell his mother and officials at his high school.
