Now Playing: New Suit Says Coach Abused Boy for 4 Years
The former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky sexually abused a boy more than 100 times in a four-year period and threatened the boy and his family to keep them from reporting the abuse, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Philadelphia. The alleged victim, now 29, is not one of the eight who were mentioned in a grand jury report revealed last month in the child sexual abuse case against Sandusky.
Identified only as John Doe, the alleged victim had not told anyone about the abuse, according to his lawyer, but was motivated to come forward after Sandusky was charged with 40 counts of child abuse and then proclaimed his innocence in a television interview.
“Hearing Sandusky on TV deny that he did these kinds of things, that was the breaking point for him,” Jeff Anderson, a prominent advocate for child sex abuse victims who is representing the reported victim, said in a telephone interview. “He knew what happened to him, and he now knew there were others. He had thought he was alone.”
On Tuesday, the reported victim filed a complaint with law enforcement officials and a day later sued Sandusky, Penn State and the Second Mile charity that Sandusky founded in 1977. It is the first civil lawsuit in the sexual abuse case, which has shaken Penn State and led to the firing of the longtime football coach Joe Paterno and the university’s president, Graham B. Spanier.
“I am the man in this lawsuit, and I’m writing this statement and taking this action because I don’t want other kids to be hurt and abused by Jerry Sandusky, or anybody like Penn State to allow people like him to do it — rape kids,” the reported victim wrote in a statement released by his lawyers.Sandusky threatened the reported victim and his family if either told anyone about the abuse, according to a complaint filed Wednesday in Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas.
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