{"id":273718,"date":"2026-08-28T05:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T05:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273718\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T05:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T05:04:17","slug":"jerry-sandusky-due-back-in-court-for-evidentiary-hearing-in-september-pennsylvania-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273718\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Sandusky due back in court for evidentiary hearing in September | Pennsylvania News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BELLEFONTE, Pa. &#8212; Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant football coach who was convicted of sexually abusing nearly a dozen boys during his time at the school, is due back in court in September.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Sandusky&#8217;s legal team, one of the men who testified against Sandusky is now coming forward to say that he was not abused by him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The evidentiary hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 8 at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man changing his story presented graphic and detailed testimony during Sandusky&#8217;s trial for sex crimes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sandusky played at Penn State in the &#8217;60s, and coached with the Nittany Lions from 1969 to 1999.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, authorities arrested Sandusky and accused him of sexually abusing young boys for years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sandusky began serving a 30-to-60 year prison term in the fall of 2012.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is now 82-years-old.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BELLEFONTE, Pa. &#8212; Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant football coach who was convicted of sexually abusing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[214,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-273718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}