Sandusky lawyer: Showers were lessons in hygiene. [View all]

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The newest attorney to join the Jerry Sandusky defense team says that the former Penn State football coach showered with young boys because the kids lacked basic hygiene skills and needed to be taught.

Sandusky is charged with more than 50 counts of child sex abuse against 10 young boys and he has repeatedly admitted to showering with children he mentored through his Second Mile charity.

"Some of these kids don't have basic hygiene skills," attorney Karl Rominger told abc27 News Tuesday. "Teaching a person to shower at the age of 12 or 14 sounds strange to some people, but people who work with troubled youth will tell you there are a lot of juvenile delinquents and people who are dependent who have to be taught basic life skills like how to put soap on their body."

Rominger later clarified his statement to NBCPhiladelphia.com's Lu Ann Cahn.

"The question was, 'could you come up with any possible explanation why an adult male would be in the shower,' and gave a possible explanation," Rominger said.

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