ABC: Sandusky wrote victims love letters

Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky wrote love letters to boys he is accused of sexually assaulting, ABC News reported. The intimate letters to one accuser known as Victim 4 will be read into testimony after the trial begins, ABC News reported, citing sources close to the case. Eight alleged victims who say they received similar letters from Sandusky are to testify against him, the network said. Opening statements are scheduled to begin Monday. The sources described the letters as "creepy" and said one was a story written in the third person. Victim 4, now 28 years old, is expected to be the first witness called to testify against Sandusky, 68, charged with 52 counts of sexually abusing 10 boys over 15 years. Some of the alleged assaults occurred on the Penn State campus. He allegedly met the boys through the Second Mile children's charity he founded. If found guilty, the penalties against Sandusky could result in an effective life prison sentence. The letters, allegedly written in Sandusky's own handwriting, are expected to corroborate the testimony of Victim 4, who met the now-disgraced coach through the Second Mile. Victim 4, who will be identified when he testifies, will also show gifts, including a set of golf clubs Sandusky allegedly gave him during their relationship, ABC said. Ben Andreozzi, the alleged victim's attorney, wouldn't discuss the letters directly, but said his client would present "evidence to support his allegations, and there's other evidence that has not been released to the public yet that I think will really resonate with the jury." The revelations come as the second day of jury selection in Sandusky's trial was to begin in the town of Bellefonte, about 10 miles northeast of State College, where Penn State is located. Nine of 12 jurors were seated Tuesday, including five men and four women. Four alternates must also be picked. The jurors, selected from a pool of more than 220 people, include a 24-year-old man whose father worked at Penn State for 30 years, a fourth-year student at the university, a retired Penn State professor of soil science and a woman whose doctor husband worked with Mike McQueary's father, John McQueary, before he retired. John McQueary is a possible trial witness and the father of key witness Mike McQueary, a former Penn State quarterback who became an assistant coach. The younger McQueary testified before a grand jury he told Penn State head Coach Joe Paterno about an alleged sexual-abuse incident he witnessed in a locker room at the school. Sandusky attorney Joseph Amendola asked to have the juror whose husband has ties to McQueary rejected from the jury, but Judge John Cleland overruled his request. "We're in Centre County. We're in rural Pennsylvania," Cleland said. "There are these [connections] that cannot be avoided." Other jurors picked Tuesday include a female Walmart employee, an engineer with no ties to Penn State, a high school chemistry teacher with two young boys, a woman who works in a State College property-management office and a woman who is retired after driving a school bus for 17 years, The (Harrisburg) Patriot-News reported. All the jurors will have to say under oath they can be impartial.