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Sandusky sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison By JEREMY ROEBUCK and JEFF GAMMAGE The Philadelphia Inquirer
BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Jerry Sandusky’s abuse shattered the formative years of his young victims’ lives. For that, a judge decided Tuesday, he will pay with the waning years of his own. The former Pennsylvania State University assistant football coach was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison Tuesday for the serial sexual molestation of 10 adolescent boys. The punishment effectively ensures that the 68-year-old will remain incarcerated for the rest of his life, Judge John M. Cleland said. “It is the ultimate tragedy of this situation that all the qualities that made you so successful as a coach and community leader concealed those vices that let you down,” the judge said, addressing Sandusky at a hearing in Centre County Court. “It is exactly your ability to conceal those vices that, in my opinion,
makes you dangerous.” Sandusky, dressed in a red jail jumpsuit, stood stone-faced as his sentence was read. But in a rambling speech that incorporated sports metaphors, discussion of his sexual relationship with his wife, Dorothy, and comparisons of himself to other sports underdogs like the racehorse Seabiscuit, he vowed to continue efforts to clear his name. “We’re in the fourth quarter,” he said. “In the fourth quarter, you find out who will stand by you. For those still standing up for me, we will continue to fight.” Afterward, he was returned to the Centre County jail, where he is expected to stay at least 10 more days before being sent to a state prison processing center near Camp Hill, Pa. There, a decision will be made on where he will serve out his punishment. Tuesday’s sentence marked a significant milestone in a scandal that turned Sandusky, a nation-
ally famous coach and a revered philanthropist, into one of the most reviled men in America. At his June trial, at which a jury convicted him of 45 counts of child sex abuse, prosecutors detailed a pattern of abuse in which the former coach targeted boys with absent fathers, gave them access to the Penn State football community, and eventually pressed them for sex. Eight accusers took the stand. Each told harrowing tales of Sandusky entering their lives as a mentor and father figure through the Second Mile, the charity he founded for underprivileged youth, only to become their predator. In court Tuesday, several described their continuing struggle to process the abuse they endured. “I’m troubled with flashbacks of his naked body,” the 26-year-old identified in court documents as Victim 5 told the judge. “The sentencing will never erase what he did to me. It will never erase
from my memory his hands on my skin or mine on his.” The mother of another 19-year-old victim said in a statement read in court that she now questions all of her parenting decisions since learning that the man she brought into her son’s life as a surrogate father turned out to be a pedophile. “I blame myself and still do for your sick indulgences,” she wrote. Others adopted a more forceful tone in addressing their abuser. “I grew up in a bad situation, and you made things worse,” said the 29-year-old known as Victim 4. “You should be ashamed of yourself.” In explaining his sentencing decision, Cleland noted the resulting community fallout from Sandusky’s crimes. In July, the NCAA imposed crippling sanctions on Penn State’s once-revered football program, alleging that several top administrators covered up allegations against him.
Supreme Court end suit against telecom By DAVID G. SAVAGE Tribune Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has ended a 6-year-old class-action lawsuit against the nation’s telecommunications carriers for secretly helping the National Security Agency monitor phone calls and emails coming into and out of this country. The suit was dealt a death blow in 2008 when Congress granted retroactive immunity to people or companies aiding U.S. intelligence agents. Without comment, the justices turned down appeals from civil liberties advocates who contended this mass surveillance was unconstitutional and illegal. This month the justices are set to hear a separate case to decide whether NSA officials can be sued for authorizing this allegedly unconstitutional mass wiretapping. The suit against the telecom companies was triggered when Mark Klein, a retired AT&T engineer in San Francisco, revealed that the company had allowed NSA agents to tap into its switching devices. He testified this meant that the NSA may “conduct what amounts to vacuum-
cleaner surveillance of all the data crossing the Internet — whether that be people’s email, Web surfing or any other data.” More than 30 lawsuits were filed against telecommunications companies, alleging they had violated their customers’ rights under federal laws that required them to maintain the privacy of electronic communications. At first, the companies asked to have the suits thrown out on grounds that the cases could reveal state secrets, a claim backed by the George W. Bush administration. That argument failed before a judge in San Francisco. But a few months before Bush left office, Congress passed a measure to shield the companies. It said a civil suit against “any person for providing assistance to an element of the intelligence community shall be promptly dismissed” if the U.S. attorney general invokes this provision in a court case. Then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey invoked this provision in the San Francisco court where the 30 lawsuits had been consolidated. A judge then dismissed the suit, and the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of
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