A look at the 10 alleged victims in the Jerry Sandusky trial, Sandusky prosecution brings 8th accuser to stand 'Who would believe kids?'

Sandusky prosecution brings 8th accuser to stand 'Who would believe kids?'

Friday, 15 Jun 2012, GENARO C. ARMAS and MARK SCOLFORO,Associated Press

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) - Jurors in Jerry Sandusky's case were told Thursday the trial would not resume until next week after prosecutors finished calling to the stand eight young men who claimed the former Penn State assistant coach sexually abused them when they were children.

Sandusky's trial on 52 criminal counts has moved more quickly than many observers have expected, and his lawyers could begin to put on their witnesses as early as Monday. There are two alleged victims have never been identified.

Testimony on Thursday included three more accusers, including a young man who claimed the 68-year-old Sandusky raped him as a teen guest in Sandusky's basement.

That witness, now 18, told jurors his abuse began with fondling and forced oral sex and led to several instances of rape in Sandusky's State College home, where he spent more than 100 nights and where his muffled screams went unanswered by Sandusky's wife, Dottie, who was upstairs.

He said he figured the basement must be soundproof.

"He got real aggressive, and just forced me into it," he said. "And I just went with it — there was no fighting against it."

Under cross-examination by Sandusky lawyer Joe Amendola, he said the attacks sometimes left him bleeding, but that he never sought medical attention.

"I just dealt with it," he said.

Described as Victim 9 in court records, he became known to investigators after Sandusky was first arrested in November and his mother summoned police to their home. He said he didn't want to talk to them at first.

"Who would believe kids?" he said....

Earlier in the day, an accuser called Victim 6 testified that Sandusky described himself as a "tickle monster" and embraced the then-11-year-old boy in a Penn State shower in 1998, an encounter that prompted an investigation but ended without any charges filed.

Now 25, he told jurors Sandusky embraced him in a locker room shower, lathered up his back and shoulders then lifted him chest-to-chest to a shower head to rinse out his hair.

The man said the shared shower happened after a brief workout at a campus gym, even though he hadn't broken a sweat. His mother went to authorities when she saw her son come home with wet hair, although the inquiry spawned by her report didn't lead to any charges.
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A look at the 10 alleged victims in the Jerry Sandusky trial

By Associated Press, Friday, June 15, 2012

Pennsylvania prosecutors say 10 young men were sexually abused by former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, charges he has repeatedly denied.

Here’s a breakdown of alleged Victims 1-10, as they are referred to in charging documents, and the alleged abuse.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/a-look-at-the-10-alleged-victims-in-the-jerry-sandusky-trial/2012/06/15/gJQAx9mGeV_story.html