STATE COLLEGE, Penn. — The lawyer for an alleged sexual assault victim of a former Pennsylvania State University football coach said his client will testify in court against the man accused of abusing eight boys over 15 years.
Attorney Ben Andreozzi said his client "fully intends to testify that he was severely sexually assaulted" by former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.
"I am appalled by the fact that Mr. Sandusky has elected to re-victimize these young men at a time when they should be healing," Andreozzi said in a statement released by his office.
Sandusky's lawyer, Joe Amendola, cast doubt on evidence in the case in a Monday night appearance on NBC.
"We anticipate we're going to have at least several of those kids come forward and say, ‘This never happened. This is me. This is the allegation. It never occurred,'" Amendola said.
But Andreozzi said he "knows of no accusers changing their stories or refusing to testify ... To the contrary, others are actually coming forward, and I will have more information for you later this week."
Sandusky, 67, appeared on the show by phone and said he had showered with boys but never molested them.
Also on Wednesday, a central Pennsylvania police chief said his department did not receive reports from a then-Penn State graduate assistant who said he saw Sandusky raping a boy on campus in a football locker room shower in 2002.
The assistant, Mike McQueary, wrote in an email to a friend that was made available to The Associated Press that he had discussions with police about what he saw. In the email, McQueary did not specify which police department he spoke to.
State College borough police chief Tom King said McQueary didn't make a report to his department.
The university has its own police force. Penn State administrators said they were looking into whether McQueary contacted campus police.
Penn State campus police referred all questions on the Sandusky matter to the university's public information office. When asked about McQueary's assertion in the email about "discussions" with police, university spokeswoman Annemarie Mountz said the school and police "were looking into it."
American football is hugely popular, and Penn State has one of the largest and most loyal fan bases in college football, drawing tens of thousands of people to its home games. The team's success has brought in millions of dollars in television broadcast rights, merchandising and more.
The football building is on university property, so campus police would be the most likely to respond for a police call. But it was unclear if university, State College or state police would have been contacted if any such discussion did take place.
Sandusky is due in court on Dec. 7, and the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts announced Wednesday that it was bringing in a Westmoreland County senior district judge to preside over his preliminary hearing. Robert E. Scott is taking over the hearing from Centre County District Judge Leslie Dutchcot.
Dutchcot has donated money to The Second Mile, where authorities said Sandusky met his victims.
The office said Scott has no known ties to Penn State or The Second Mile.
Some plaintiffs' lawyers are starting to advertise on their web sites for potential Sandusky victims, vowing to get justice. Jeff Anderson, a Minnesota attorney, has long represented clergy abuse victims and told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he has been retained by several people he described as Sandusky victims.
"There's a great deal of fury and confusion," particularly because Sandusky is free on bail, Anderson said. "Getting [them] help and cooperating with law enforcement is our first priority."
The "time for reckoning," in the form of civil lawsuits, will come later, Anderson said.
Anderson declined to say whether his clients are among the eight boys who were labeled as victims in the grand jury report.
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