Jerry Sandusky In Court To Seek New Trial, Victim 2 Testifies
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (CBS) -- "Is There anything you'd like to say sir?"
To that, there was no response from victim number two, the now 29-year-old Marine who says Jerry Sandusky sexually assaulted him in a Penn State shower in 2001.
"He was dragged here," said Jenn Storm, a Pennsylvania victim's advocate. "If he never has to talk about this again, that's what he would like."
Victim number two spent about an hour answering questions from Sandusky's current attorney Al Lindsay. Those questions focused on why his original statements to police back in 2011 stated he was never abused by his former mentor and why that story changed after hiring an attorney.
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"It's incredibly common for victim's of sexual violence to not be forthcoming initially. Sometimes it takes them months, years, weeks. You have to understand that in this case, there was so much pressure on this young man. There were so many things going on and Jerry was not incarcerated at that time," Storm said.
During the 2011 trial, prosecutors said victim two was known only to God and the Sandusky defense team claims the state knew who that person was, but didn't trust his testimony.
If that's true, that could be considered prosecutorial misconduct and Sandusky could receive a new trial.
"If you recall the testimony from the commonwealth, they deny he was victim number two," Lindsay said.
The judge will now decide whether to grant the 72-year-old's motion for post conviction relief.
