Here we go again with this guy. SMH. Jerry Sandusky gave his first interview since going to prison in October. Check out what he had to say…
Via TodayNews:
In his first interview since going to prison in October, former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky disputed the account of a key witness and said legendary coach Joe Paterno would never have let him coach if he suspected Sandusky was a pedophile.
“If he (Paterno) absolutely thought I was (a pedophile), I’d say no,’’ Sandusky said. “If he had a suspicion, I don’t know the answer to that.”
Filmmaker John Ziegler is working on a documentary called “Framing Paterno,” a defense of the late coach, and conducted telephone interviews with Sandusky. Portions of those interviews were played exclusively on TODAY Monday. Sandusky was convicted on 45 counts of child sexual abuse and given 30 to 60 years of solitary confinement, the equivalent of a life sentence for the 69-year-old.
“Jerry Sandusky already had his day in court,” Ziegler told Matt Lauer Monday. “I’m trying to get Joe Paterno, effectively his day in court…I have no doubt that Jerry Sandusky was guiltyof many of things, if not all the things, that he was accused of, but I do believe there were due process problems with the trial.”
Former Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary was a key witness in Sandusky’s trial. He testified before a grand jury that in 2001 he heard sounds of a sexual nature and then saw Sandusky with a 10-year-old boy in the shower of a campus locker room. Sandusky disputed McQueary’s version of what he witnessed in the locker room.
“I don’t understand how anybody would have walked into that locker room from where he was and heard sounds associated that was sex going on like he said that could’ve been,’’ Sandusky said. “I mean, that would have been the last thing I would have thought about. I would have thought maybe fooling around or something like that.
“I think there’s a lot of things that transpired,” he said. “I think these investigators, the way they went about business, his story changed a lot. I think he said some things and then it escalated on him even. There’s a lot of suggestive questioning.”
This is a developing story.
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Via TMZ:
Jerry Sandusky is scoffing at Mike McQueary — the man critical in bringing him down — claiming it’s absurd McQueary could have concluded he heard sounds of sex and rape in the locker room.
Sandusky, who was audiotaped for a documentary said, “I don’t understand how anybody would have walked into that locker room, from where he was, and heard sounds, and associated that was sex going on.”
Portions of the prison interview were played this morning on “Today.” Sandusky said, “I mean, that would been the last thing I would have thought about. I would have thought maybe fooling around or something like that (laughter).”
John Ziegler, the man who interviewed Sandusky, is making a documentary called “Framing Paterno” in an effort to clear the name of legendary Penn State coach Joe Paterno.
