Jeffrey Sandusky, Jerry Sandusky’s Son, Arrested, Charged With Sexual Abuse Of Two Minor Girls

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Jerry Sandusky’s Son Jeffrey Arrested For Sexually Abusing Minors

Jeffrey Sandusky, the adopted son of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, was arrested in Pennsylvania on Monday and charged with sexually abusing two minor sisters.

The 41-year-old was arraigned in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, near the Penn State campus, and charged with 14 counts, including statutory sexual assault, for abusing the girls, who were 15 and 16 at the time of the incidents.

Sandusky is being held on $200,000 bail and is forbidden from having any contact with minors. He was also suspended from his job at Rockview State Correctional facility. His other charges include solicitation of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, unlawful contact with a minor, and solicitation to photograph or depict sexual acts.

In 2012, Sandusky’s father Jerry was convicted of sexually molesting 10 boys and was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison at the age of 68 — essentially a life sentence.

According to Pennsylvania State Police, Jeffrey Sandusky attempted to receive explicit sexual text messages from a minor– referred to as “Victim 1”– in March 2016. The girls’ mother was dating Sandusky at the time and had been for six years. Sandusky lived with the woman and her daughters for five of those years.

The girls’ father contacted local police on Nov. 21, 2016 and showed them the text messages Sandusky sent the minors on March 1 and 2 of that year. Sandusky requested naked photos of the girls in some of the texts, and he allegedly added this wasn’t “weird” because he was “studying medicine.”

Victim 1 didn’t initially tell her parents because, according to an affidavit, Sandusky made her mother “happy.” However, she did tell her older sister– identified as “Victim 2”). Victim 2 then told her sister that Sandusky had done “the same type of thing” to her in March 2013, requesting oral sex when she was 15 at the time.

Victim 1 also told police she developed the habit of taking showers while Sandusky was at work or otherwise out of the house because she “does not feel safe with him there.” She added that Sandusky “kept pressuring her” not to show the text messages to anyone and to erase this evidence.

In one text exchange police said they saw, Sandusky told Victim 1 that he and she need to talk to “get things straightened out.” The girl responded, “No, we don’t need to talk and we aren’t going to. You did what you did and I’m not going to give you a chance to try and justify it.” Victim 1 added this was the behavior of a “rapist.”

According to the affidavit, the girls’ mother also claimed Sandusky had said he was trying to help by obtaining naked pictures of her daughter (Victim 1) off the Internet and needed similar pictures of the girl to do it “and to ‘role play.'” The mother reportedly told Sandusky that his texts were “f—– up.”

Sandusky allegedly told the mother that he knew what he had done was “wrong and inappropriate.” Victim 2 told police that, when she learned of Sandusky’s texts to her sister, she “tore into him.” She said he told her, “I can’t even say anything except I’m sorry.”

BELLEFONTE, PA – AUGUST 12: Jerry Sandusky enters the Centre County Courthouse to appeal his child sex abuse conviction on August 12, 2016 in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Sandusky was facing a prison sentence for his conviction in June, 2012 on 45 counts of child sexual abuse, including while he was the defensive coordinator for the Penn State college football team. (Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images)