{"id":5232,"date":"2012-10-09T10:56:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T15:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=5232"},"modified":"2012-10-09T10:56:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T15:56:22","slug":"sandusky-sentenced-penn-st-child-sexual-abuse-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=5232","title":{"rendered":"Sandusky Sentenced, Penn St Child Sexual Abuse Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/APnatioalBluel.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1137\" title=\"APnatioalBluel\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/APnatioalBluel-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) &#8211; Jerry Sandusky has been sentenced to at least 30 years in prison &#8212; effectively a life sentence &#8212; in the Penn State child sexual abuse scandal.<br \/>\n\u00a0A defiant Sandusky this morning gave a rambling statement denying the allegations and saying he is not a monster.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Three victims also spoke, often fighting back tears. One looked<br \/>\nthe 68-year-old Sandusky in the eyes at times.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Among the three who spoke was a young man who said he was 11<br \/>\nwhen Sandusky groped him in a shower in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>He said Sandusky is in denial and should &#8220;stop coming up with excuses.&#8221; Another said that he was still troubled with flashbacks of his abuse in 2001.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Judge John Cleland issued the sentence three months after a jury<br \/>\nconvicted the former Penn State assistant coach on 45 counts of<br \/>\nchild sexual abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) &#8211; Jerry Sandusky has been sentenced to at least 30 years in prison &#8212; effectively a life sentence &#8212; in the Penn State child sexual abuse scandal. \u00a0A defiant Sandusky this morning gave a rambling statement denying the allegations and saying he is not a monster. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5234,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions\/5234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}