How did Jerry Sandusky get caught?

Gerald Arthur Sandusky was born on January 26, 1944, in Washington, Pennsylvania. He is  American, though his parents are Polish immigrants. Sandusky is a  retired college football coach. He is also a convicted sex offender.

Sandusky was an assistant coach at Pennsylvania State University under Joe Paterno, from 1969 to 1999. He was awarded  “Assistant Coach of the Year” in 1986 and 1999. Sandusky has written a number of books related to his football coaching experiences.

In 2011, Sandusky was arrested. He was then charged with 53 counts of sexual abuse of young males from 1994 to 2009. He was however convicted of 45 of those charges.  In 1977, Sandusky founded The Second Mile, a non-profit charity that was serving underprivileged youths in Pennsylvania. This was how Sandusky met his victims.

Sandusky was caught when a young graduate assistant witnessed him sexually abusing a boy in a shower. The young witness then recounted the incident to Joe Paterno and two campus authorities. But they did nothing to alert the authorities.

Suspicion arose when the mother of one of the young people in the Second Mile called the police. This is because her son had told her that Sandusky hugged him while they were showering.