Sandusky was granted the hearing because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that minimum sentencing requirements, such as those on which his original sentence was based, were unconstitutional. “I know you maintain your innocence,” Skerda told Sandusky. In June 2012, Sandusky was convicted of 25 felonies and 20 misdemeanors stemming from charges that he molested 10 boys between 1994 and 2009. A statement by one of boys, identified as Victim 5, was read aloud in court by Pennsylvania Victim Advocate Jennifer Storm. “I was 13 and Jerry Sandusky lured me into the Penn State shower and made me touch him,” the statement said.

Source: National Post November 22, 2019 19:50 UTC