Sandusky attempts to discredit witness from prison

Jerry Sandusky is a pedophile and was rightfully convicted, filmmaker John Ziegler said.Yet he came out in Sandusky's defense in an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan late Monday, disparaging witness testimony that led to that conviction.

The A.M. radio talk show host recently released controversial interviews he conducted with the former Penn State assistant coach.

Sandusky will probably be incarcerated for the rest of his life for child sex abuse convictions, but he has had his say outside the prison walls in these recorded phone conversations, which Ziegler partially posted on the Internet.

In the audio clips, Sandusky attempted to discredit an eyewitness in the case against him and downplayed what head coach Joe Paterno may have known about his activities.

It was harmless fun

Sandusky recalled in one anecdote trading swats with an undressed boy who was showering near him, but mentioned no sexual acts. He depicted it as mutual amusement for both the boy and him.

"He would get the last smack," Sandusky said, "and then I would chase him, like, and I ran him into a wall ..."

Ziegler combined Sandusky's account with what he called evidence corroborating it.


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