Here’s How The Americans Do It: Jerry Sandusky was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison for abusing 10 boys

Posted: 2012/10/09 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Jurisprudence, Organized Crime, Public Policy, Stats / reports

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Sandusky — who was defensive coordinator and for many years the presumed heir-apparent to legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno — could have faced as long as 400 years for his convictions on 45 counts of child sexual abuse.

But McKean County Common Pleas Court Judge John Cleland, who was brought in to hear the trial after all of Centre County’s judges recused themselves, told Sandusky that at age 68, he would be in prison “for the rest of your life.”

“The crime is not only what you did to their bodies but to their psyches and their souls and the assault to the well-being of the larger community in which we all live,” Cleland said.

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http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/09/14315772-jerry-sandusky-gets-30-to-60-years-for-child-sex-abuse?lite

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