Sandusky's wife: Victims manipulated over money

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Mar 12, 10:53 AM EDT
Sandusky's wife: Victims manipulated over money

NEW YORK (AP) -- The wife of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky says she "definitely" believes her husband is innocent despite being convicted of sexually abusing 10 boys and that the victims' financial gain was at play.

Dottie Sandusky said in an interview broadcast Wednesday on NBC's "Today" show that "there was nothing that went on because I was here" in the couple's small home in State College, Pa., where some of the victims reported being abused in the basement.

Although one accuser said his muffled screams went unheard by her upstairs, Sandusky heard nothing "because he didn't scream," she said after giving interviewer Matt Lauer a tour of the house. "It's not a dungeon," she noted of the basement.

She denied any suggestion that she was a "weak spouse" who enabled her husband and said she believes his accusers had been manipulated.

[snooper2]

1. You are either an idiot Dottie or an enabler

We know what evidence came out in trial-

[Sissyk]

12. That's what gets me.

How can you possibly have a blind eye to all the evidence that came out.

Ten kids. Ten.

[geek tragedy]

2. what a horrible person, nt

[Stargazer09]

3. Poor thing

It must be hard to accept that her husband is a convicted creep.

If I were in her shoes, I wouldn't want to talk about it with anyone except my therapist and my lawyer.

[WinkyDink]

5. TFB. She was and is an "enabler," as they say.

[Stargazer09]

6. Oh, I wholeheartedly agree

The fact that she's still married to him shows that she doesn't care about what's right or wrong.

[WinkyDink]

4. So she disbelieves even MATT SANDUSKY???? She makes me sick. Dottie lost her social status, and now

she's giving interviews?

Check your BASEMENT, Dottie.

~~~PSU, '71.

[Cirque du So-What]

7. She should be occupying a prison cell along with her pedophile husband

You cannot convince me that she was utterly clueless about what was going on literally right under her nose. I am appalled that this woman gets air time to push her lies.

[butterfly77]

9. Exactly...

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

8. What a disgusting person. nt

[Initech]

10. You can try to justify it all you want, doesn't make it any less horrible.

[kwassa]

11. She can't admit she's been living a lie for all these years.

She's just in serious denial.

My in-laws, who knew Sandusky, were in denial about this crime for a long time, too. It was very hard for them to accept.