Attorney: Sandusky Began Abuse In 1970's, Likely Has More Than 100 Victims
By Mark Abrams, KYW Newsradio 1060
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - The Minnesota-based lawyer who filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Philadelphia on behalf of a new victim of Jerry Sandusky, says he believes the ex-Penn State defensive coach's alleged misconduct with young boys may stretch back into the 1970s.
A man identified simply as "John Doe A" in the suit alleges Jerry Sandusky molested him at least 100 times during a four-year period from 1992 to 1996, including at least one time in Philadelphia (see related story).
"There was some resistance at that particular time. Sandusky made a threat to him that nobody would believe him and a threat to his family and he coerced him into some further silence," says Jeff Anderson (pictured), "John Doe A's" attorney.
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The suit says the victim was part of Sandusky's "Second Mile" program for kids from dysfunctional families and the abuse began when he was 10.
Anderson says he has 28 years of experience representing child-sex abuse victims. He has gained a national reputation for pursuing clergy-sex abuse cases against the Catholic Church.
"Based on experience, on the investigation we have here, what has been revealed publicly that this profile reveals a very dangerous and cunning man who probably has been accessing kids since he founded that charity in '77 if not before." That charity, being Second Mile.
The suit names Second Mile, Sandusky and Penn State as defendants.
Anderson says he believes there are many more Sandusky victims. "Anybody that is this predatory and unable to control the sexual impulses and this powerful and cunning has statistically, the research shows, at least a 100 victims."
Anderson says the victim in the first suit filed in the Penn State scandal is now 29 and no longer lives in Pennsylvania. He says he is now telling his story to police and prosecutors.
