For the second time, ex-Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky receives maximum sentence
BELLEFONTE, Pa. _ Former Penn State Nittany Lions assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was sentenced Friday to at least 30 years in state prison for crimes that have cost the university more than $100 million and prompted changes to state law.
The resentencing hearing was his first visit to the Centre County Courthouse since May 2017. He donned an ochre state prison jumpsuit _ a modest change from his red Centre County Correctional Facility jumpsuit _ and told reporters he "absolutely" maintains his innocence.
"I apologize that I'm unable to admit remorse for this because it's something I didn't do," Sandusky said. " ... No matter what, nobody or nothing will ever be able to take away what's in my heart."
Sandusky was found guilty in June 2012 of 45 counts of child sexual abuse, convicted of molesting 10 boys over a 15-year period. The state Superior Court in February ruled mandatory minimums were improperly applied in 2012 and ordered a new sentencing.
He met many of the boys he abused through The Second Mile, a now-defunct program he founded for at-risk children.
_ Centre Daily Times (State College, Pa.)
