Jerry Sandusky Child Abuse Jury Hears Details Of Coerced Showers And Chilling Threats
June 13 2012, Published 9:30 a.m. ET
By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter
The latest accuser in the child abuse trial of shamed former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky added to the litany of shocking allegations against him on Wednesday by telling the Pennsylvania courtroom horrific details of alleged sex in showers.
Now 23 years old, Victim 5 revealed how when he was just 11 the defendant allegedly leered at him in the shower, insisting on soaping him down and washing his hair despite the boy trying to squirm away.
"I went to the far end of the shower and stood under the shower head and tried to face the wall as much as I could. I kept looking over my shoulder and I saw that (Sandusky) was standing a few feet away from me and I felt uncomfortable, I felt like he was looking at me,” testified the witness, according to a report by the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The man went on to give more sexually graphic details of the alleged shower assault that ended with him running away, and neither he nor 68-year-old Sandusky speaking to each other again. "I thought he was upset with me," he said about the fall out from the 2001 incident. "He didn't talk to me. No eye contact."
Also on Wednesday, janitor Ronald Petrosky took the stand to recall a conversation he had with his colleague Jim Calhoun when he emerged from the campus shower room visibly shaken one day in 2000.
"He looked at me and said, 'I just witnessed something that I'll never forget for the rest of my life," said Petrosky. "That man that just left - Sandusky - I saw him licking on that boy's privates."
Calhoun, who told his co-workers at the time that he witnessed Sandusky allegedly