Sandusky's wife: Victims manipulated over money

[alp227]

Source: AP

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (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, 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.

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"I think it was, they were manipulated, and they saw money," she said. "Once lawyers came into the case, they said there was money."

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/sanduskys-wife-says-she-believes-hes-innocent

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Edit to remove NBC link.

Harrisburg Patriot-News: Post-conviction life has its trials for the Sanduskys, Dottie tells "Today"

Centre Daily Times: ‘I definitely believe him,’ Dottie Sandusky says of her husband

Yeah, a bunch of young men definitely would slander an innocent man for millions. That is definitely realistic huh? Why isn't this woman charged with obstruction of justice?

As for Paterno, while the lead Sandusky prosecutor has said there's no evidence Joe Paterno actively covered up for Sandusky, Louis Freeh's investigation says otherwise.

[Botany]

1. She knew because Jerry used to take little boys along on bowl trips and one time ..

... he did that after Joe Paterno had been told about Sandusky's actions.

[Seedersandleechers]

2. No Dottie

YOU were manipulated and casted a blind eye to the abuse so you could live your "pretend" life. Fuck You.

[Scairp]

16. Here here

She knew and knows it's all true. Or, she's just a dumb bitch. Either way, I don't care if she is suffering. It pales in comparison to what those boys went through and will go through for the rest of their lives.

[aikoaiko]

17. And the jury results are in...

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"she's just a dumb bitch"? Sorry but this kind of talk belongs on MRA sites or Free Republic, even if talking about someone as cold hearted as Jerry Sandusky's in-denial wife.

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[alp227]

18. Fuck. THIS IS WHY WE NEED SEVEN MEMBER JURIES.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024639292

Can't even hide a message for such blatant misogyny? Are freeper mods infiltrating our juries?

[Scairp]

24. Hey guess what?

I'm a woman. Does that mean I can't call another woman a bitch, a public person who is offensive in every sense of the word, as some persons of color use a certain word with each another and defend it as acceptable, but only by them? Why is this any different? I argue no. And I promise this is not blatant misogyny. You don't have a clue as I've experienced it first hand so I know what it is not, and what it IS.

[alp227]

26. Oh I did not know that, but it's still not right.

Sure, black rappers may use "n****" in songs, but DU is higher than that. I don't see the N-word being thrown around on our forum even with the "my own group" defense.

[Gormy Cuss]

30. If some person of color used a certain word here in that way, the jury would hide it. Every time.

That's the difference.

Just curious, but what makes her a "bitch" other than just being a woman? If it's based on her actions or words, what would you call a man with the same traits, and why isn't that term appropriate for both genders?

[tofuandbeer]

25. +1

[Myrina]

3. Denial is more than just a river in Egypt ...

Sad for her, that she still can't/won't accept reality.

[AtheistCrusader]

4. Still won't accept it after all the evidence, and testimony? Really?

I still think that pension should have been abrogated due to criminal conduct.

[Walk away]

5. For all anyone knows she could have been complicit in the rape of these children.

Who knows how many lies she told to cover up his abuses while he was alive. Every time I read about her running her crap I think the same thing. How guilty is she?

[LynneSin]

9. For some people after telling the same lie for a long long long time...

it starts to sound like the truth, at least in the eyes of the one who is saying the lie.

[get the red out]

10. Good point

It is really hard to say how someone keeps up this kind of talk. Being complicit in the crime is certainly possible. It was paying of for her financially to be at least tacitly supportive of his "fun". She might think if she keeps up the act people will at least not blame HER.

She may have told herself that it really didn't matter what he did to those kids because they were "better off" for the help they received from his charity and the stuff he gave them. Which is insane, but there are people who can believe that kind of crap.

Sick, sick stuff no matter why she keeps up this pretense.

[Hubert Flottz]

12. Me also.

She must be upset by the cold shoulders she keeps running into wherever she roams. Matt Liar probably wasn't too hard on Sandusky's wife in his probing of the witless.

[geek tragedy]

6. she's horrible, a despicable enabler nt

[LynneSin]

7. There is a dark place in hell for that woman - she can rot there with her husband

Come on someone actually witnessed him raping a young boy in the lockerroom shower. She needs to get her head out of her ass and wake up to the fact that she was married to a monster. Until then she can rot in hell with her husband.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

8. Throw her in jail too.

Heartless asshole.

[VA_Jill]

11. Dottie Sandusky

Enabler-in-chief. She is the one who doesn't want to lose out on any money!

[Hubert Flottz]

14. They could make a Discovery channel series about Mrs. Sandusky's many trials and tribulations...

Gold Rush, in Happy Valley.

[Capt. Obvious]

13. I bet she's a smoker

[VA_Jill]

29. If not

She oughta be. A little pot would do wonders for her!

[olddad56]

15. He was framed, I tell ya, framed.

was she in the locker room when he took showers with at least one of the kids?

[iandhr]

19. She probably could use some professional help.

[Walk away]

20. Professional wrestling maybe! nt

[Dustlawyer]

21. Why do they have to always blame us lawyers?

Does she think that lawyers are so uniformly dirty that we somehow find people to fabricate this shit over and over? We worked hard to get through college, law school and pass the Bar exams, but we are willing to throw it all away and go to jail to fabricate a fake lawsuit that would be scrutinized by national media? I don't think so and I am tired of this crap. Most lawyers are honest believe or not! There are unscrupulous people in every profession, I think it has more to do with the fear that people have for attorneys since we could surely ruin your day. You won't hear from me unless you did something wrong or made a very bad mistake. We police our own very well in order to protect what little good reputation we have with the general public. If doctors worked as hard as lawyers in policing their own medical malpractice would almost be a thing of the past. Six percent of the doctors commit 90% of the malpractice. Sorry for the rant down the rabbit trail but I get so many RW nut jobs telling me that their case is legitimate, unlike most of my other cases. That is what one just told me like it was a given that most of my docket were made up of frivolous lawsuits. Just so you know, it is hard enough to get a jury to award money to a victim in a clear case of liability since almost all Republicans believe you should just accept and deal with it instead of sue, unless of course it happens to them. I do get pleasure when I can tell those people that due to the tort reform they supported they are capped on damages or no longer have a claim. The looks on their faces is priceless when they bleat, "but I have a REAL case!"

[warrant46]

22. Awesome Reply !!

[Dustlawyer]

23. Thanks for your understanding, I was expecting all negative responses.

[JoeyT]

27. It's mostly the right that hate lawyers.

It's related to their reason for thinking feeding poor kids is a bad thing or that people that can't afford rent should learn to be waterproof.

Apparently it's an affront to justice or something to have someone that knows how the system works representing the little people in civil court or criminal trials. Anything that brings the have-nots closer to anything remotely resembling equal footing is going to bring about a wailing and gnashing of teeth.

[Ecumenist]

28. AMEN DustLawyer.. I completely understand and know of people who believe that suits

Should be illegal UNLESS they're somehow involved. Sucks to be them in places where this is law.

[surrealAmerican]

31. What an appropriate nickname she has.

Why on earth did NBC put her on their show? You don't go putting this sort of nonsense on television.