Jerry Sandusky Introduces ‘Hygiene’ Defense, Says He Was Teaching Boys How to Shower
Jerry Sandusky has a perfectly good reason for showering with young boys. He wanted to teach them about good hygiene. An attorney for the former Penn State coach admitted that his client had showered with boys from his Second Mile Charity but denied that there was anything sexual about the showers.
According to attorney Karl Rominger, Sandusky was just teaching the children how to shower.
“Some of these kids don’t have basic hygiene skills. 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.”
Yahoo reports that Rominger’s statement about Sandusky’s shower habits doesn’t exactly match up to what Sandusky said in his interview with Bob Costas. Sandusky previously said that he horsed around with boys in the shower, but never mentioned anything about practicing hygiene.
Sandusky is currently facing more than 50 counts of sexual abuse. The former Penn State is being accused of abusing 10 boys over the course of 15 years. Sandusky recently waived his right to a preliminary hearing. Here’s a report from Newsy.
Do you buy Jerry Sandusky’s hygiene defense?
Tags : hygiene defense, jerry sandusky, jerry sandusky hygiene, sex abuse, teach how to shower
Posted: December 15, 2011
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Dec 16, 2011
I hope his lawyr lets him continue to talk and say the things he is saying bc it's going to make the decision on his indictment to be guilty on all counts easier on the jury. Keep up the great work you sick bastard!
Dec 16, 2011
Be better off just to admit it and say he's guilty — than to make the family go through all this.
Dec 16, 2011
Thank you Jerry Sandusky for confirming what I teach in my child sexual abuse prevention education class. I tell parents that they need to teach their kids as soon as they are out of diapers that they shower and bathe themselves, no one else is allowed to or needs to, do that for them. If they don't teach their kids this, someone (like Sandusky) might come along and convince them that they need to show them or do that for them. I know this from experience – this is what my step father did to me until I was about 10 years old.
Dec 16, 2011
Unbelievable.
Dec 16, 2011
Pathetic.
Dec 16, 2011
Wth?
Dec 16, 2011
How dumb does he think people are. His defense is just insulting to anyone's intelligence.
Dec 16, 2011
Just more evidence of the sickness and twisted was in their thinking … Teaching boundaries and trusting your gut is so important…
Dec 16, 2011
"don't forget to wash inside your butt hole kids".
Dec 16, 2011
His lawyer is a quack. He hasn't shut up since Sandusky got arrested, all of the things he has said are going to come back and bite him in the a** during the trial. I think that's the plan so the FIRST appeal can be for inadequate defense.
Dec 16, 2011
yea, teachin boys to shower…yea, that's the ticket.
Dec 16, 2011
SMH…So RONG!!!
Dec 16, 2011
yeah-I don't think anyone will buy that. this guy is sick.
Dec 16, 2011
the other lawyer went with the "our client is just a big kid" defense recycled from Michael Jackson (who honestly was probably insane)
Dec 16, 2011
"he was showing them how to apply soap to their bodies" was about where I got ill.
Dec 16, 2011
the lawyer's a scumbag too. A few years ago he got into his 16 year old client's "legal briefs". She's since had his kid.
Dec 16, 2011
i saw that, i wonder if hes a member of nambla
Dec 16, 2011
That's a laughable defense!
Dec 16, 2011
I'm wondering why the FBI hasn't used RICO to go after the people that run NAMBLA.
Dec 16, 2011
He was teaching them how to shower? Uhm, what an asinine comment from his attorney.
Dec 16, 2011
does he Really think everyone is THAT stupid to believe that?
Dec 16, 2011
nah, all he has to do is convince a couple jurors.
Dec 16, 2011
well lets hope that they are smart enough to see through that
Dec 16, 2011
That is the most INSANE defense ever! His scumbag lawyer's were holding court it seams outside …!!!
Dec 16, 2011
wow…….
Dec 16, 2011
that's like a murderer claiming he was just using the dead body for target practice and accidentally shot him dead.
Dec 16, 2011
Wtf
Dec 16, 2011
The ol' I didn't know I couldn't do that defense would have worked better.
Dec 16, 2011
Not only a sick pervert, but a big fat liar!
Dec 16, 2011
Thank you for all your work- saving the lives of many and inspiring those who have been sexually abused to speak out. Sandusky simply confirms- each of his interviews- he is in fact a pedophile and has been murdering the souls of many children for years. I'm completely outraged.
Dec 17, 2011
yeah, sure. And the problems only started when they dropped the soap.
Dec 17, 2011
He's digging his hole and I'd like to push him in it.
Dec 17, 2011
Yeah that's a good one! BS!
Dec 24, 2011
yea we used to hear this one a lot from counselors at Boys Town.