Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky regularly forced him to have oral sex and repeatedly sodomized him, an 18-year-old man told a Centre County jury this afternoon.
The alleged attacks occurred during several years when he slept over in a basement bedroom of Sandusky's College Township home,
alleged Victim 9, a recent high school graduate, testified during the fourth day of Sandusky's trial.
The man said he was 12 when he met Sandusky in 2004 or 2005 in a swimming pool during a camp run by Sandusky's Second Mile charity. He said Sandusky asked him if he would like to "hang out" outside the camp, so he gave Sandusky his mother's phone number."He seemed nice," the alleged victim said. He said his mom thought it was great that Sandusky was showing an interest in him.
The man said his mom's attitude kept him going to Sandusky's home for sleepovers for three or four years, even after Sandusky allegedly began molesting him.
The abuse began, he testified, with Sandusky rubbing, hugging and kissing him and escalated into Sandusky forcing him to touch Sandusky's penis and to perform oral sex. Sandusky finally began forcing him to engage in anal sex, he said.
The alleged victim said he told his mom that Sandusky was "touchy, feely," but didn't tell her about the full scope of the alleged abuse. "How are you supposed to tell your mom something like that?" he said under questioning by prosecutor Joe McGettigan.
The man said he didn't want to engage in the sex acts, but "What was I going to do? He was a big guy...Way bigger than me."
For nearly four years, until 2009, he said, he slept at Sandusky's house almost every weekend. The abuse occurred on most of those occasions, he said.
Sometimes he would scream and tell Sandusky to stop molesting him, he said, but "there was no fighting against it."
The man said he finally had enough when he was 16 in 2009 and called his mom to come get him at Sandusky's home. "I didn't tell her why," he said.
Sandusky would tell him he loved him and "wanted the best for me," the alleged victim said."What did you think about that?" McGettigan asked.
"It was creepy," the man replied. "But I was a kid. What could I know?"
Under defense attorney Joe Amendola's questioning, the man said he never told anyone about the abuse until police contacted him last November, soon after Sandusky was arrested. His mother had called the police, he said.
He said that after Sandusky was arrested, the ex-coach called him and asked him to "stick up for him" if police questioned him about molestation allegations.
When Amendola asked if Sandusky's wife, Dottie, was in the home when he screamed for help, the man said she was, but that he believed Sandusky's basement was sound-proof. He said he never sought medical attention for the alleged sexual assaults.
He also said under Amendola's questioning that he and a friend went to a football game with Sandusky last fall.
Sandusky invited him to the game, the alleged victim said. "The only reason I went that time was because I had a friend with me," he said. "If anything went down my friend had my back. My friend had never been to a football game."
When Amendola asked if Sandusky had taken him to other games in 2009, 2010 and 2011, the man said he and family members had gone to games with Sandusky, but he couldn't remember specifics.
The man's testimony concluded today's court session. The trial is to resume Monday morning.
