What Sandusky accusers said in their depositions
The following are summaries of excerpts from five accusers' depositions included in the unsealed records. John Doe 150 Deposition date: Oct. 13, 2014
The following are summaries of excerpts from five accusers' depositions included in the unsealed records.
John Doe 150
Deposition date: Oct. 13, 2014
Doe 150 described a 1976 incident, when he was 14, that occurred during a high school football camp in 1976. He said Sandusky, while showering with him and other boys in a Penn State locker room, inserted his finger into the the then-teen's anus. The man said he later told other adults at the camp, including Paterno, about what happened.
John Doe 75
Deposition date: Sept. 29, 2014
Doe 75 alleged that when he was 13 in 1987, assistant Penn State football coach Joe Sarra walked in on him while Sandusky had his hands down his shorts. Sarra allegedly said, "Oh, sorry," and quickly ducked back out of the room. Sandusky kissed him on the forehead, as if to assure him that everything was okay, the man testified.
"Your mind starts wondering, man," he said during the deposition. "You start thinking, did this guy really - was he helping him?"
John Doe 101
Deposition Date: Nov. 21, 2014
Doe 101 alleged that after meeting the assistant coach at the age of nine or 10 through the charity The Second Mile, the boy was invited to accompany Sandusky to coach's meetings, football team dinners, games at Beaver Stadium and sleepovers at Sandusky's house.
During that time, Sandusky fondled his genitals, performed oral sex upon him and forced the boy to do the same in return, he testified.
On several occasions, the man told lawyers during his deposition, other coaches at the university, including Paterno, spotted him showering in a private coach's locker room with Sandusky.
John Doe 102
Deposition Date: Nov. 21, 2014
Doe 102 describes being pressured by the head of a local house for boys on probation, where he was a resident, to apologize to Sandusky for accusing him of sexual abuse.
He also says he was ordered to apologize to a second man, who may have been former Penn State Athletic Director Jim Tarman. He says he remembers being told the man's name was "Harman, something like that."
But the accuser says he would not testify under oath that the second man was Tarman.
"He had a blue polo shirt on that had the little script embroidery of Penn State," the accuser said and "an embroidered little football."
In his May opinion on the dispute between Penn State and its insurer, Judge Gary Glazer referenced an accusation that a former Penn State athletic director had been informed about sexual abuse in 1988. John Doe 102 gave his deposition in 2014 and said he was reflecting on abuse that had occurred 27 years earlier.
John Doe 200
Deposition date: July 8, 2015
Doe 200 described Sandusky getting into a hot tub with him in 1995 or 1996 and rubbing his penis. He also said he put lotion on Sandusky and masturbated him at Sandusky's cabin by a pond "on numerous occasions." During that time, he alleged a female also was present, and that Sandusky sexually abused her as well. He said he witnessed Sandusky "grinding with" the girl, who did not have clothes on.
"It got repetitive over the weekends with the same girl and me in a room," he said, noting he had no family around.