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Subscribe to RSSFormer Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky will now begin the next phase of his life as a convicted child sex offender. NBC's John Yang reports.
Jerry Sandusky has been placed on suicide watch, one of his lawyers said Saturday, a day after he was convicted of sexually abusing children in what one juror told NBC was a clear case of guilt.
Centre County Correctional Facility via Reuters
Jerry Sandusky is seen in this booking photo on Friday.
Karl Rominger said Sandusky was under individual guard at the county jail, known as suicide watch, and was apart from the general prison population, Reuters reported.
It was not clear if Sandusky had acted in a way that threatened his own life, or if the move was standard procedure in such a high-profile case.
Rominger reiterated that the former defensive coach for Penn State football will appeal the verdict, a process that can happen when Sandusky is sentenced in 90 days or so.
Sandusky, 68, was convicted Friday of 45 counts of child sexual abuse and faces a minimum sentence of 60 years in prison, NBC News reported.
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Juror Joshua Harper told TODAY that the look on Sandusky's face as the guilty verdicts were announced was "confirmation" that they had made the right decision.
Sandusky had shown "no real emotion, just kind of accepting because he knew it was true," he added.
The ex-coach had repeatedly denied the allegations, and his defense suggested that his accusers had a financial motive to make up stories, years after the fact.
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As Sandusky was placed in a police cruiser to be taken to jail on Friday, someone yelled at him to "rot in hell!" Others hurled insults and he shook his head no in response.
Defense attorney Joe Amendola was interrupted by cheers from the crowd on the courthouse steps when he said, "The sentence that Jerry will receive will be a life sentence."
Sandusky is one 272 inmates at the Centre County Correctional Facility, a jail that is just seven miles from the Penn State campus.
Like other inmates there, he was allowed to bring a few items with him and is allowed visits from his family, friends and lawyers.
The jail did not say whether anyone had come to see him Saturday. At his home, his wife and three of their adopted children remained inside after returning there Friday night. The windows blinds and curtains were drawn.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Jerry Sandusky's victims, their families and an entire community are hoping to move forward after the former Penn State assistant football coach was found guilty of child sex abuse. NBC's Ron Allen reports.
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I hope he dies in prison with Bubba's junk in his trunk, Bubba's bff's junk in his mouth and someone else's junk stuck in the hole they shank him in. But really that is not harsh enough for him so if anyone else can take it up a notch?
I think everyone he abused should make 2 lines and let him walk in between, and let everyone vent there anger on him as he walks through. And suicide watch? Bull S@#$ let him do it if he wants; its going to cost tax payers 45k per year to imprison him. SEEYah!!
tax payers give me the job and gov gives me a pardon, ill do the hit.
Oh, let the @!$%# kill himself. Who cares at this point?
He'll have plenty of friends to shower with where he's going.
Maybe, he will drop his soap. LOL
He's on surveillance (NEWCOMER WATCH). Just prolonging the "PLAY TIME" with his NEW MALE FRIENDS.
Suicide - the coward's way out - but he's been one all along.
I'm sorry but sometimes killing yourself is the right thing to do. Give him some privacy.
Does he have his shoe laces, or do we need toget him some?
They take them away when he is booked along with belts.
How about we encourage our kids and ourselves to stop idolizing sports figures, entertainers, and cross and collar-wearers and start teaching them what a real hero is?
Don't watch him and prevent him, let him do it.
Maybe he will be able to help in prison somehow (being a prison whore).
Put our energies into helping young children avoid Child Abuse and learn to keep reporting it until someone takes them seriously. He is one of many and I would never let my child play sports where they were EVER segregated with an adult. EVER
Barbara
I never heard of ANY coach taking showers with the kids. My son played all kinds of sports and never had any incidents. Coaches have their own private showers in all the schools my son went to. This was a huge reg flag to PS officials, Dottie, and anyone who saw Sandusky in the showers with the kids.
I do not understand, why he has to spend 40 years in prison, spending also taxpayer money for 40 years. That is a waste. That is one of the reason our country is going bankruptcy because instead of waste those millions in Sundasky jail time, spend it in preventing and fixing the young generation from going through all this.
We might FANTASIZE THE HELL OUTTA WHAT that man could look like if we... PUT HIM NAKED IN THE SHOWER... WITH THE MEN WHO NEVER LEAVE PRISON... but... NO SOAP THIS TIME... hehehe... I'm guessing they don't ASK YOU TO SPREAD 'EM, just a calculated guess. And I'm pretty sure they do JAM sorry RAM then JAM... lord I apologize....
I so agree with you Jill. You said it perfect.
I hope he admits his guilt and asks GOD & his victims for forgiveness.
He certainly should admit his guilt to his victims. As to God - that only works if one believes. I can't imagine that a monster like him believes in God.
Why not?---monsters in churches believe in God!!
Heaveto, you DO have a point...
He won't. He doesn't think he did anything wrong.
He gave his victims awful memories for their lifetime but yet he can't even wait to get sentenced before going bonkers. Coward, never expected him to take his punishment like a man but this is a bit too soon. Please leave a detailed letter of exactly when you started molesting and just how many victims there are out there. None of this crap of how you are innocent and just couldn't take it in prison.
But my mind feel REALLY FINE!! SandBUTTY will serve time... MORE IMPORTANTLY! SURVIVORS ARE RUMBLING AND THAT IS GREAT.... PERIOD!
To Sandusky and all of his ilk: Was it worth all this shame?
Ever heard of "the heat of the moment?"
Very proud of this jury. They first of all, were intelligent as evidenced by this young man being interviewed by Lester Holt. They did not rush to judgement, they weighed the evidence and the credibility of each witness. Excellent outcome. Jerry Sandusky will rape no more!
I hope he admits his guilt and asks GOD and his victims for forgiveness.
God looked on, and "did nothing!!"
My point exactly.
God looked on....and weeped. God's greatest gift is our free will....which even He will not amend unless asked to with grace and repentence. The innocence destroyed shall be highly exulted....God is just and loving.
Let's hope to keep our own slates clean and pray for God's mercy for those in dire need of such.
He won't. He doesn't think he did anything wrong -- he was 'helping' those boys.
One of the reasons he got away with this for so long is because of the "glamour" of sports. Admit it. We as a society idolize sports figures to the extreme. We push our kids into sports for the wrong reasons. These kids were forced to go to the "football camp" for what? To get raped by an idolized sports figure.
You could also say--- "the reason they got away with it for so long is because we idolize religeon!!"
Re deities: The more one learns, the less one believes.
Religion....correctly spelled I may add....should have nothing to do with an individuals moral compass. Each of us has a mind and will to act accordingly and just. Ignorance as to the true nature of "religeon" is a topic for another discussion.
It's plain and simple.....right or wrong....no rocket science needed to heed to one's own gut feeling and relationship with our Highest Good.
LOL! Thats not gonna help him escape punishment, hes gonna face God next!
Why a suicide watch?-----he would be better dead!!!-----and all those who aided and abetted him should now be up for prosecution!!!
Hey Jerry- o !
- I sure hope Hell's hot enough!!!
"Hell"--------what about the 'hell' he put those children through???
Can't fault you there - NO ARGUMENT
I don't understand the suicide watch. He doesn't deserve to live. Let him take himself out and we won't have all of our tax dollars spent protecting him. There is no rehabilitation for this guy.