Amendola's comments followed a Times report in which Sandusky proclaimed his innocence and accused prosecutors of distorting his tenure as an assistant to coach Joe Paterno at Pennsylvania State University and as the founder of a charity for needy children.
"They've taken everything that I ever did for any young person and twisted it to say that my motives were sexual or whatever," Sandusky told the Times. "I had kid after kid after kid who might say I was a father figure."
Sandusky told the newspaper he considered many of the children he mentored to be "extended family" and called his interaction with them "precious times."
He gave a similar but shorter interview to NBC News last month, when he was first charged with sexually abusing eight boys between the mid-1990s and 2008. He faces a preliminary hearing on the charges in Centre County on Dec. 13.
Nils Frederiksen, a spokesman for the state Attorney General's Office, declined to comment on Sandusky's remarks except to say the grand jury's presentment speaks for itself.
But the ex-coach's denials sparked outrage from his accusers and their lawyers.
"His words were: 'It just makes me furious,' " said Minnesota attorney Jeff Anderson, describing the reaction of his client, a 29-year-old man who last week filed a lawsuit alleging Sandusky had molested him more than 100 times.
Andrew Shubin, a State College lawyer who represents an alleged victim in the criminal case, called Sandusky's interview "an entirely unconvincing denial and a series of bizarre explanations."
Michael Boni, a Bala Cynwyd attorney hired by the family of a Clinton County teenager whose allegations sparked the criminal investigation in 2008, said the boy's mother was distressed by Sandusky's denial.
