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Jerry Sandusky's Attorney: Showering With Boys Not Pedophilia; Witness Could Refute Mike McQueary’s Claims

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Nov. 15 2011, Published 6:30 a.m. ET

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By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

Jerry Sandusky's attorney Joe Amendola told the Today Show on Tuesday morning that his client "showering with kids doesn’t make him" a pedophile, and that one of the witnesses to the ex-coach's alleged rapes could be lying.

Amendola said Sandusky "didn’t use a whole lot of common sense" when showering with the youths because of past incidents, but that it “doesn’t make him guilty” of molestation, in the video obtained by Breaking Celebrity News.

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In an interview with NBC on Monday, Sandusky admitted he "shouldn’t have showered with those kids," but denied he's a pedophile, summing up his interaction with the boys as "horseplay."

As far as Mike McQueary, the assistant coach who claims he saw Sandusky raping a boy in the shower in 2002, Amendola said he believes