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BELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania The last alleged victim to testify in the Jerry Sandusky youngster sex abuse trial informed jurors on Thursday the former Penn State University assistant football coach sodomized him as a boy in the basement of Sandusky's property as he screamed in vain for aid.
His account supplied a dramatic bookend to the prosecution's presentation of graphic testimony more than 3-1/2 days in the closely watched trial in Pennsylvania from eight men who described becoming sexually abused as young boys by Sandusky.
The most recent witness, now 18, spoke quietly with his head down as prosecutor Joseph McGettigan questioned him. The witness mentioned Sandusky forced him to have anal sex property "a handful of instances" in the basement of the coach's home. Sometimes he would scream, at least after when Sandusky's wife was in the residence, but no a single ever responded, the guy stated.
"No a single can hear you down there," he explained in the hushed courtroom, his head hanging. He said he had bled from the attacks, but his mother had never ever noticed blood on his clothing.
Following the man's testimony and cross examination in Centre County Court in rural Pennsylvania, Judge John Cleland recessed the trial right up until Monday, when it is expected that the defense will begin presenting its situation.
Sandusky, 68, faces 52 counts of sexually abusing 10 boys above a 15-year period. Two of the boys have not been identified. If convicted on all counts, the former defensive coordinator for Pennsylvania State University's prosperous football plan faces a sentence of far more than 500 many years in prison.
Earlier on Thursday, jurors heard from two other guys who also accused Sandusky of molesting them and from a university campus detective who recalled Sandusky saying "I want I were dead" immediately after being confronted by an alleged victim's mother about showering with her son.
Sandusky, who retired from Penn State in 1999, is accused of meeting his alleged victims as a result of the Second Mile charity for needy boys that he founded in 1977.
The final witness on Thursday explained he performed oral sex on Sandusky just about every time he stayed overnight, sleeping all but a single time on a water-bed in the basement. Asked why he did not resist when Sandusky forced him to carry out oral sex, he said, "What was I going to do? He's a massive guy, way bigger than me."
Like numerous of the alleged victims, the man came from a broken property. When he met Sandusky, he was living in a trailer with his mom, who was doing work in a bar, and the father was not all around. He later spent time in a foster residence. He mentioned he never ever told his any person about the abuse, which includes his mom, saying, "How can you inform your mom about it?"
The white-haired Sandusky, dressed in a dark sport coat and slacks, stared at the guy during the testimony. Asked by McGettigan to indicate Sandusky, the man turned his head and pointed a finger at him. When McGettigan informed him to appear at Sandusky, he said: "I never want to seem at him."
The day's initial witness was a 25-year-old guy who explained Sandusky bear-hugged him in a shower when he was a young boy and lifted him to rinse shampoo out of his hair, after which his memory of the occasion ends. "It's all black," he told jurors stated.
Another 25-year-old man also told of showering with Sandusky as a youthful boy, sleeping at Sandusky's house and making an attempt to "get away from him" when he touched his penis.
Also testifying was Ronald Schreffler, a former Penn State campus detective who investigated 1 of the incidents and explained he told Sandusky he must not shower with boys. No expenses have been brought against Sandusky at the time.
The case, which has centered fresh focus in the United States to the issue of child sexual abuse, prompted the firing of university President Graham Spanier and head football coach Joe Paterno, record-holder for most wins by a significant U.S. college football coach. Paterno died of lung cancer in January.
The 1st witness of the day explained he met Sandusky in 1998 when he was 11 years old at a picnic hosted by the Second Mile. Sandusky invited him to operate out at a Penn State campus gymnasium, which was deserted when they went there late in the day, the guy testified. The two wrestled and lifted weights for about 15 minutes and Sandusky told him it was time to shower, he stated.
In the shower, Sandusky grabbed him from behind and said playfully, "I'm going to squeeze your guts out" and bear-hugged him, the guy testified haltingly.
Sandusky lifted him to rinse shampoo out of his hair, he mentioned. "That is the last matter I remember about staying in the shower. It's all black," explained the guy, identified in court documents as Victim 6.
The boy's mom reported the incident to university police and it was investigated but no expenses were filed.
The guy testified that he had continued to have contact with Sandusky. When defense lawyer Joe Amendola asked the witness, "Did the alter in your frame of mind have something to do with hiring an attorney and pondering that there may be some financial get for you?," the man answered: "Zero."
'I Wish I Were DEAD'
Schreffler, who investigated the incident, said that in agreement with the boy's mom he and a different officer eavesdropped on her when she confronted Sandusky about it.
"Throughout the program of the conversation, Mr. Sandusky created the statement, 'I wish I could get forgiveness, I know I will not get it from you. I wish I have been dead,'" Schreffler testified.
He said he and an investigator for the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare met Sandusky, and Schreffler told him he should not shower with boys yet again. Sandusky agreed and stated he had utilized "undesirable judgment," Schreffler stated.
The seventh alleged victim to testify mentioned that he had slept overnight at Sandusky's property about 50 occasions in excess of a three-year period from 1998 to 2001. He mentioned he had met Sandusky at a 2nd Mile occasion.
The witness said he slept all but one particular time in the basement and the coach typically would get into bed with him and tickle, blow on his abdomen, kiss his shoulders and occasionally touched his penis, giving him an erection.
"At that point I would roll in excess of and test to get away from him. I knew I was not supposed to have 1 in front of a man," stated the man, recognized in court documents as Victim 3.
He also went to get the job done out at Penn State with Sandusky a few instances. They showered together, and the coach bear-hugged him from front and back and soaped him, which include on his buttocks, he said.
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