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Jerry Sandusky Offered Victim 4 a Contract to Keep Seeing Him

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Getty 060512 JerrySandusky?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1339490390380Patrick Smith/Getty Images(BELLEFONTE, Pa.) — A man who claims he was sexually abused as a boy for years by former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky told a jury on Monday that when he tried to pull away from Sandusky the ex-coach had him sign a contract offering him money in return for seeing him at least once a week.

The witness, who is now 28 and identified only as Victim 4 by ABC News, collected some cash from Sandusky, but soon broke off contact.

The witness said the offer in 1999 was called the “Program” and was ostensibly made to ensure that the boy would continue with his studies and athletics.  It promised $1,000 for every year of education the boy pursued after high school, plus additional money for seeing Sandusky, going to hockey practice and working out 3 times a week, he testified.

But Victim 4 said the proposed deal came as he tired of years of sexual abuse, as often as three times a week for three years.  When asked by Sandusky’s lawyer Joseph Amendola whether the offer was made in good faith, the witness rejected that suggestion.

“No, no.  You’re not understanding.  This is when I’m trying to get away from him.  I signed it to shut him up.  And that’s not the only thing it’s offering me money for….It’s not that simple, not in my mind, sorry,” he said.

Victim 4 also said that Sandusky drove him to buy marijuana and cigarettes and watched while the boy smoked pot in Sandusky’s car.

The witness said Sandusky’s attention began as soap battles in a Penn State locker room when he was 13, but became more aggressive and insistent the more time they spent together.  He told the jury on the first day of the trial that he had to resort to hiding in his bedroom closet to avoid Sandusky trying to prey on him at his home.

“I’d come home from school and look out the window and he’ d be there and I’d grab the phone and hide in the closet,” the man, who was 13 when the alleged abuse began, testified.

The man’s testimony was the first of what is expected to be a series of wrenching and sexually graphic witness testimonies detailing what they claim that Sandusky, now 68, did to them when they were young boys.

Sandusky is charged with 52 counts of sexual abuse involving 10 boys over a period of 15 years.  The trial is expected to last three weeks.

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