Prosecutor: Claim that coaches saw Sandusky abuse unreliable
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Prosecutors are dismissing as unreliable allegations that two assistant coaches at Penn State witnessed Jerry Sandusky having inappropriate or sexual contact with children in the late 1980s, more than two decades before his arrest and conviction as a serial child abuser.
"The reports turned out to be double and triple hearsay and of no value, with the coaches in question each denying they saw anything," Solicitor General Bruce Castor said. "So dead ends there all around."
A Philadelphia judge's ruling last week in a lawsuit by Penn State against an insurance company made public the previously undisclosed allegations, which came from depositions by some of Sandusky's accusers.
The insurer was quoted in the ruling as claiming an assistant coach saw "inappropriate contact" between Sandusky and a child in a school facility in 1987 and another witnessed "sexual contact" between Sandusky and a child in 1988.
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