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Mr. Anderson said his client hadn't spoken of the alleged abuse until other stories were made public through the grand-jury report. "This kid suffered in secrecy and in silence and shame thinking he was the only one and never told a soul until the revelations came out about other kids and a coverup," Mr. Anderson said. "That's what caused him to come forward and break the silence." In a statement released by Mr. Anderson, the plaintiff said he had never told anyone about being abused by Mr. Sandusky "until the newspapers reported that he had abused other kids." He said, "I am hu...

Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky sexually abused a boy more than 100 times, then threatened his family to keep him quiet about the encounters, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday that details new accusations not included in criminal charges against Sandusky. The lawsuit is the first in the Penn State child sex-abuse scandal and identifies the plaintiff, now 29 years old, only as John Doe. It claims Sandusky abused the boy from 1992 to 1996 at the coach's State College home, in a Penn State locker room, on trips to Philadelphia and at a bowl game. T...

A former student of a popular teacher at a Los Angeles high school filed a sex abuse lawsuit today alleging that the award-winning music instructor sexually molested him over a two year period starting in 1997.