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BELLEFONTE, Pa. Dannell Ellerbe Womens Jersey . -- For years, the children Jerry Sandusky had preyed upon kept quiet about what the former Penn State assistant football coach did to them in echoing shower stalls, empty hotel rooms and the muffled confines of his basement bedroom. After a swift trial and less than two days of deliberations, a jury issued an emphatic verdict late Friday: Sandusky was guilty on 45 counts of sexual abuse, meaning the man once considered a successor to coach Joe Paterno will likely die in prison. The verdict is not the end of the scandal that took down Paterno and deeply shook the states most prominent university. It will play out for years in courtrooms and through a set of ongoing investigations. CAUTION: GRAPHIC CONTENT MAY BE DISTURBING But the trial did present one piece of finality: Sandusky was taken away in handcuffs to the county jail. Sentencing will be in about three months, but mandatory minimums will keep him behind bars for life. "One of the recurring themes in this case was, Who would believe a kid?" Attorney General Linda Kelly said. "The answer is, we in Bellefonte, Pa., would believe a kid." Sandusky, a retired defensive coach, showed little emotion as the verdict was read, giving his wife, Dottie, and family members a half-wave as the county sheriff led him away. There were only three acquittals among the charges related to 10 victims, eight of whom took the stand to describe fondling, forced oral sex and anal rape. Many of the accusers testified that they had told no one of the abuse that dated as far back as the mid-1990s -- not parents, not girlfriends and not police. The accuser known in court papers as Victim 6, whose mother alerted authorities in 1998 after Sandusky took her son into a shower, broke down in tears upon hearing the verdicts in the courtroom. Afterward, a prosecutor embraced him and said, "Did I ever lie to you?" The man, now 25, testified that Sandusky called himself the "tickle monster" in a shower assault. He declined to comment to a reporter afterward. His mother said: "Nobody wins. Weve all lost." One of the three counts for which Sandusky was acquitted concerned Victim 6, an indecent assault charge. The man testified that Sandusky had given him a bear hug in the shower but at one point he just "blacked out." The other acquittals were an indecent assault charge related to Victim 5, who said Sandusky fondled him in the shower, and an involuntary deviate sexual intercourse charge regarding Victim 2, the boy graduate assistant Mike McQueary saw being attacked in a campus shower. That charge resulted in an acquittal because McQueary did not see penetration, juror Joshua Harper told NBCs "Today" on Saturday. But, Harper said, McQueary made it apparent he saw something "that was wrong and extremely sexual." Almost immediately after the judge adjourned, loud cheers could be heard from a couple hundred people gathered outside the courthouse as word quickly spread that Sandusky had been convicted. The crowd included victim advocates and local residents with their kids. Many held up their smartphones to take pictures as people filtered out of the building. As Sandusky was placed in the cruiser to be taken to jail, someone yelled at him to "rot in hell!" Others hurled insults and he shook his head no in response. Defence lawyer Joe Amendola was interrupted by cheers from the crowd on the courthouse steps when he said, "The sentence that Jerry will receive will be a life sentence." In addition to the eight who testified, there were two yet-unidentified victims for whom prosecutors relied on testimony from a university janitor and McQueary, whose account of a sexual encounter between Sandusky and a boy of about 10 years old ultimately led to the Paternos dismissal and the university presidents ouster. Sandusky did not take the stand in his own defence. After the verdict was announced, defence lawyer Karl Rominger said it was "a tough case" with a lot of charges and that an appeal was certain. He said the defence team "didnt exactly have a lot of time to prepare." The ex-coach had repeatedly denied the allegations, and his defence suggested that his accusers had a financial motive to make up stories, years after the fact. His lawyers also painted Sandusky as the victim of overzealous police investigators who coached the alleged victims into giving accusatory statements. One accuser testified that Sandusky molested him in the locker-room showers and in hotels while trying to ensure his silence with gifts and trips to bowl games. He also said Sandusky had sent him "creepy love letters." Another spoke of forced oral sex and instances of rape in the basement of Sanduskys home, including abuse that left him bleeding. He said he once tried to scream for help, knowing that Sanduskys wife was upstairs, but figured the basement must be soundproof. Another, a foster child, said Sandusky warned that he would never see his family again if he ever told anyone what happened. And just hours after the case went to jurors, lawyers for one of Sanduskys six children, Matt, said he had told authorities that his father abused him. Matt Sandusky had been prepared to testify on behalf of prosecutors, his lawyers said in a statement. The lawyers said they arranged for Matt Sandusky to meet with law enforcement officials but did not explain why he didnt testify. "This has been an extremely painful experience for Matt and he has asked us to convey his request that the media respect his privacy," the statement said. It didnt go into details about his allegations. Defence witnesses, including Dottie Sandusky, described Sanduskys philanthropic work with children over the years, and many spoke in positive terms about his reputation in the community. Prosecutors had portrayed those efforts as an effective means by which Sandusky could camouflage his molestation as he targeted boys who were the same age as participants in The Second Mile, a charity he founded in the 1970s for at-risk youth. Sanduskys arrest in November led the Penn State trustees to fire Paterno as head coach, saying he exhibited a lack of leadership after fielding a report from McQueary. The scandal also led to the ouster of university president Graham Spanier and criminal charges against two university administrators for failing to properly report suspected child abuse and perjury. The two administrators, athletic director Tim Curley and now-retired vice-president Gary Schultz, are fighting the allegations and await trial. The family of Paterno, who died exactly five months before Sanduskys conviction, released a statement saying: "Although we understand the task of healing is just beginning, todays verdict is an important milestone. The community owes a measure of gratitude to the jurors for their diligent service. Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with the victims and their families." In a statement, Penn State praised the accusers who testified and said that it planned to invite the victims of Sanduskys abuse to participate in a private program to address their concerns and compensate them for claims related to the school. 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Youngster Quinton Berry is doing a solid job in left and at the plate and Austin Jackson has been on fire. Theyre just two-and-a-half out of first and four games back of the second Wild Card slot. The Jays arent going to strip themselves of a good prospect just to get a struggling Jeremy Guthrie from Colorado, but they could use a little more than the three journeymen theyve picked up this week in Sean Hill, David Pauley and Sean OSullivan. ' ' '
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