Former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was found guilty on 45 of 48 counts of child sex abuse as the verdict was read in front of a Pennsylvania courtroom Friday night.
Sandusky was charged with sex abuse of 10 boys last November. The alleged cover-up of the crimes sparked a firestorm at Penn State University which led to the firing of school president Graham Spanier, AD Tim Curley and the late head football Joe Paterno, who died in January.
The judge revoked his bail as charges were read and taken away in handcuffs to jail where he will be in solitary confinement.
Hundreds of people gathered in front of the courthouse cheering in favor of the verdict.
Sandusky, 68, faces a minimum of 60 years and a maximum of 442 years in prison. Jurors found the former coach guilty of 17 first-degree felonies, each having a sentence of 20 years.
He did not take the stand in his defense because of his adopted son becoming a rebuttal witness, according to his attorney Joe Amendola.
Sentencing will not take place for another three months.
The next course of action would be to go after the administrators who tried to cover-up the sex abuse and those who enabled it to continue.
The Penn State University community is a tight-knit group that treat each other as family.
They now have a long road ahead of them as they try to polish a once impeccable image which is now tainted.
Friday, June 22, 2012
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