STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested and jailed Wednesday on new child-sexual-abuse charges brought by two new accusers, including one who claims Sandusky molested him numerous times in a basement bedroom, according to authorities.
The claims bring the number of Sandusky’s accusers to 10, and he now faces more than 50 charges stemming from accusations he molested boys for years on Penn State property, in his home and elsewhere.
The scandal has raised questions about whether Penn State officials did all they should have to stop the alleged activity and has ended the careers of the school’s president and football coach Joe Paterno.
Sandusky, 67, was first arrested last month and has said he is innocent. The latest charges were brought after new accusers were questioned by a grand jury.
Sandusky lawyer Joseph Amendola said after the arraignment Wednesday that he had not read the latest grand jury report but said he has no reason to doubt Sandusky’s claims of innocence. Sandusky was unable to immediately post a $250,000 bail and was taken to jail.
As with earlier accusers, both of the new alleged victims told the grand jury they met Sandusky through The Second Mile, a charity for at-risk children that Sandusky founded in 1977.
One of the new accusers, dubbed Victim 9 by prosecutors, claims he was first assaulted in 2004, when he was 11 or 12, and the other, called Victim 10, told the grand jury he was assaulted after being referred to Second Mile in 1997.
Victim 9 “testified that on at least one occasion he screamed for help, knowing that Sandusky’s wife was upstairs, but no one ever came to help him,” the grand jury report said.
As he left his arraignment Wednesday, Sandusky did not say anything or make eye contact with about two dozen reporters and photographers.
