Prosecutor calls Sandusky a "predatory pedophile"
June 11, 2012
Last updated 12:45pm ET[/i]
(CBS/AP) BELLEFONTE, Pa. - The lead prosecutor called Jerry Sandusky a serial predator in opening statements Monday, while a defense lawyer said the young men accusing the former Penn State assistant football coach of sexual abuse had a financial interest in the outcome.
Senior Deputy Attorney General Joseph McGettigan III opened Sandusky's highly anticipated trial Monday by telling jurors that the 68-year-old retired coach was a pedophile who took advantage of fatherless children or those with unstable home lives and sexually abused them for years.
McGettigan, apologizing in advance for what he said would be
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