Jerry Sandusky’s lawyer, Joe Amendola, has had a puzzling legal strategy early on. Since letting his client creep out America by barely denying the charges raised against him to Bob Costas, Amendola’s now taken to describing one of the grand jury report’s listed victims as “pampered” and “encouraged” to make the story something worse than what it really was, whatever it really may have been.
Jerry Sandusky Victim Encouraged To Embellish, Claims Lawyer Joe Amendola
The Sandusky side of the story, apparently, is that the coach was tough on his pupils, which somehow sparked an exaggerated retort. Amendola also says “there might have been 25 to 50 people at Jerry’s house” during one of the alleged sexual abuse episodes.
Amendola does raise one point that has troubled pretty much everybody, though it’s hard to think it’ll count for much as a defense:
“(It also) defies absolute logic that that someone could see something that horrific, that god awful, and not one, do anything about it, and number two, continue to interface with the person that he saw doing it,” Amendola said, referring to McQueary’s ongoing working relationship with Sandusky for years after the alleged incident.
Related: Jerry Sandusky fallout, replacing Joe Paterno, and Penn State’s movement to support sexual abuse survivors. For more on the Nittany Lions, visit Penn State blog Black Shoe Diaries. More college football news.
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