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UPDATE TUESDAY 10:30 AM
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, whose sexual
abuse of children triggered a cascading crisis that still shadows the state's
largest university, was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison Tuesday
The sentence issued by Judge John Cleland means that the
68-year-old former coach, convicted of abusing 10 children over 15 years, will
spend the rest of his life in prison barring a successful appeal.
Original Posting......
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky
will be sentenced Tuesday after being convicted in June of 45 counts of child
sexual abuse for molesting 10 boys over 15 years after meeting them through a
charity for at-risk children.
His lawyer, Joe Amendola, told CBS News Sandusky intends to
address the court and proclaim his innocence. Nobody else is expected to speak
on Sandusky's behalf during the sentencing hearing Tuesday in Bellefonte,
Amendola said.
The day before his courtroom statement, however, Sandusky
released a rare jailhouse recording, in which he questioned his accusers
motives and repeatedly proclaimed to be innocent of and baffled by the charges
against him.
The three-minute statement aired on Penn State's student-run
radio station at 6 p.m. ET Monday.
To Listen To Audio, Click Here.
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