By Rupert Cornwell
i-Independent Print Ltd
WASHINGTON — College football coach Jerry Sandusky has been jailed for 30 to 60 years for abusing 10 young boys in a child sex case that rocked the United States.
The former assistant coach at Penn State University could have been given a term running into centuries, after being found guilty in late June on 45 of the 48 separate counts against him. But the punishment handed down by a Pennsylvania judge ensures that Sandusky will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
However, Sandusky, 68, offered no apology. Instead he denied everything, insisting he was the victim of a conspiracy and of a rush to justice that gave him no time to prepare a proper defence.
“They can take away my life, they can make me out as a monster...” he declared in a statement.
“But in my heart, I know I did not do these alleged disgusting acts.”
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