Greg Bucceroni says he doesn?t remember the specific location he was driven to in 1979, when he says he was a troubled teenager who had been in and out of at least one Philadelphia after-school youth service program.
Bucceroni says he accompanied Edward Savitz, a well-known Philadelphia businessman, Democratic political booster and advocate for at-risk children, to a fund-raiser ?somewhere past Harrisburg.? The event was to raise money for the recently established Second Mile foundation, and Bucceroni says he remembers meeting the man everyone referred to as ?The Coach,? Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, who founded Second Mile in 1977.
Bucceroni says Savitz and Sandusky knew each other through The Second Mile and political fund-raising events. ?I remember thinking that the Second Mile is going to save me. I have a chance to get out of trouble,? says Bucceroni.
Bucceroni?s story was a twisted, tortured one in the three years leading up to his brief interaction with Sandusky. The Philadelphia native, who now works as a police officer in the city?s public school system, says he was sexually abused by Savitz starting in 1977.
Like Sandusky, Savitz met and groomed many of his alleged victims through his work with at-risk youths.
