The attorney for Travis Weaver, the 30-year-old Ohio man who filed a lawsuit last year saying he too was abused by
Jerry Sandusky, says he was almost adopted by the Sandusky family.
Weaver is known as alleged Victim 11 in the criminal grand jury investigation into child sex abuse by Sandusky, said attorney Marci Hamilton."It's striking, and it tells you how orchestrated Sandusky?s methods were," Hamilton said.
"None of it was accidental."
Weaver is telling his story tonight on NBC's "Rock Center" with Brian Williams.
But Hamilton acknowledged this afternoon that Sandusky wanted to adopt Weaver after Sandusky's youngest adopted son, Matt,
said through his attorney that he is also a victim.
Matt Sandusky had been denying that he was abused since his biological mother testified before a grand jury last year.
His attorney said he decided last week to testify truthfully, if called to the witness stand by prosecutors at trial. That never happened, and so his attorney made the allegations of abuse public today.
Weaver was regularly at the Sandusky home around the time that Matt became a foster child for the Sandusky's. He was not adopted until he was an adult.
Weaver, in his lawsuit, alleges he was molested more than 100 times between 1992 and 1996.
Weaver remembers Matt Sandusky, Hamilton said. The kids all played together, she said. But, she said, Sandusky's wife Dottie "kind of kept them separate."
Beyond that, Weaver hasn't talked much about his relationship with Matt.
When contacted today, Sandusky's attorney, Karl Rominger said only, "(Matt's) lawyers know we're gagged and can't respond."
Hamilton said prosecutors haven't said whether they plan to file criminal charges in Weaver's case. They are focused right now on the ongoing trial.
The jury began deliberating on 48 counts today around 1:20 p.m.
