Adopted son of ex-Penn State coach tells Oprah: Sandusky sex abuse became ‘bedtime ritual’

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters

An adopted son of convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky recounted to Oprah Winfrey in often graphic detail how the former Penn State University assistant football coach had molested him as a teenager in what became a “bedtime ritual.”

In an interview broadcast on Thursday in a segment of Winfrey’s “Oprah Prime” program, Matthew Sandusky, the youngest of the family’s six adopted children, also said he found it hard to believe that his adoptive mother, Jerry Sandusky’s wife Dottie, had been unaware of the abuse.

“She has walked into the bedroom when I was laying on top of Jerry Sandusky in my underwear,” recalled Matthew Sandusky, now aged 33.

Dottie Sandusky was shown in a separate video clip asserting that her husband was innocent and had not molested anyone. She has accused Matthew Sandusky of stealing her husband’s football championship rings, a claim he denied in Thursday’s interview.

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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/18/adopted-son-of-ex-penn-state-coach-tells-oprah-sandusky-sex-abuse-became-bedtime-ritual/

[geardaddy]

1. ...

no words

[YarnAddict]

2. How horrifying

Dottie knew; there is no way she wouldn't have known. She chose not to acknowledge, because she benefitted from living in that world. As the wife of one of the coaches, she had a status she never would have had otherwise.

[closeupready]

3. +1000. No way on Earth she could not have known.

[xfundy]

4. In earlier days that may have been seen as "wrestling"

But in these times the truth is spoken. No telling how many kids were screwed up before, but now we can stop it.

[tblue37]

5. Near the end of the linked article we find this point:

At the age of 16, given a choice between going to juvenile prison or being adopted by the Sanduskys, he chose adoption.

Talk about being pressured into a situation where he had no way to resist unwanted advances!

[Blue_Tires]

6. That's one of the more disturbing parts of the whole ordeal

Sandusky through his foundation and charitable cover SPECIFICALLY preyed on vulnerable, fragile boys from lower-income, broken homes...Boys who were desperate for a positive father figure in their lives, desperate for a chance to experience some fun "father-son" activities the rest of us take for granted...

[tblue37]

8. And in the case of his adopted son--desperate to stay out of prison. nt

[freshwest]

7. A home, a family, a career, a chance to adopt needy children. This could have turned out to be a

beautiful family with love to last for generations. Instead, this is what was done with the opportunity. None of this had to happen.