Cops arrest Sandusky son on charges of soliciting child
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — One of Jerry Sandusky’s sons faces multiple felony charges stemming from an alleged March 2013 incident.
Jeffrey Sandusky, 41, of State College, is one of the six adopted children of Jerry Sandusky, the retired Penn State defensive coordinator whose 2011 arrest and 2012 conviction on 45 of 48 counts of child sex abuse crimes rocked the university.
Jerry Sandusky maintains his innocence and continues to pursue a new trial. He is incarcerated at Greene state prison in Waynesburg.
Jeffrey Sandusky was arraigned yesterday before District Judge Kelley Gillette-Walker, according to court documents. The charges include criminal solicitation of statutory sexual assault by a person 11 years older, criminal solicitation of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse of a person less than 16 years old, two counts of criminal solicitation of photograph or film depicted on the computer of a sex act knowingly involving a child, six counts of communicating with a minor-sexual abuse and two counts of criminal solicitation of child pornography — all felonies — and two misdemeanor counts of corruption of minors.
According to the heavily redacted criminal complaint filed by state police at Rockview, the father of a minor contacted police on Nov. 21 saying the minor received text messages from Jeffrey Sandusky on March 1 and 2, 2016.
The father provided screen shots of the messages to troopers, police said, and advised that the minor had told the mother about the texts the day before. Jeffrey Sandusky, who had reportedly been living at the residence for about five years, was told by the mother to leave.
Jeffrey Sandusky’s text request to the minor was redacted in the complaint, however he reportedly said that “it’s not weird because he studied medicine.” He then allegedly advised the minor not to show the texts to anyone.
Jeffrey Sandusky allegedly asked the minor to erase all the texts the next morning, police said, and that none of it gets mentioned to or seen by anyone. He then advised that he and the minor need to talk to “get things straightened out.”
“No, we don’t need to talk and we aren’t going to,” the minor reportedly replied. “You did what you did and I’m not going to give you a chance to try and justify it.”