Penn State Scandal: Jerry Sandusky's Lawyer Impregnated A Teenager
Nov. 15 2011, Published 3:00 p.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
The lawyer representing shamed Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky also has a scandalous past, Breaking Celebrity News has learned, and he likes his lovers young.
Attorney Joe Amendola impregnated a teenager who he was helping with her legal ambitions, and then married her, The Daily reported.
As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, Amendola's high profile client stands accused of molesting eight boys over 15 years, from 1994 to 2009. He was arraigned on 40 criminal counts -- 21 of them felonies -- including multiple counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, corruption of minors, endangering the welfare of a child, indecent assault and unlawful contact with a minor, along with single counts of aggravated indecent assault and attempted indecent assault.
Not only did Amendola have a relationship with 17-year-old Mary Iavasile when he was 49, but the older man, now 63, also served as the attorney for her emancipation petition on September 3, 1996.
The legal request, which was filed at the Centre County Courthouse in Pennsylvania, made no mention of the affair but the teenager's mother, Janet Iavasile, alleges that her daughter became pregnant by her lawyer around the same time and gave birth before her 18th birthday.