Jerry Sandusky

IN HIS MARCH 25th letter, Chris Isles suggested that Jack McMahon, the attorney defending Dr. Kermit Gosnell in his murder trial, is attempting to play on the sympathies of minority jury members by suggesting that Dr. Gosnell, who is African-American, is a victim of "prosecutorial lynching. " Well, of course he is, Mr. Isles; he'd be crazy not to! Jack McMahon is (literally) fighting for his client's life, as the District Attorney's Office would like none other than to see Dr. Gosnell put to death!

Former coach Mike McQueary, who testified that he witnessed Jerry Sandusky raping a child in a Pennsylvania State University locker-room shower, might have been unduly influenced by overzealous investigators, Sandusky said in an interview broadcast on Today on Monday. "His story changed a lot," said Sandusky, 69, who is serving a 30- to 60-year jail term for his conviction last year on sexual-abuse charges. "I don't understand how anybody would have walked into that locker room from where he was and heard sounds, associated that was sex going on," he said before pausing to laugh.

An interview with Jerry Sandusky - his first since being sent to prison for abusing young boys on and off Pennsylvania State University's main campus - is scheduled to air on NBC's Today show Monday morning. The network announced on its website that it would have the exclusive interview with Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant football coach. The interview is said to be excerpts of interviews Sandusky had with independent filmmaker John Ziegler. "The former longtime defensive coordinator will describe what he says happened on the campus, and what he thinks of whistleblower Mike McQueary and late head coach Joe Paterno," the network said.

STATE COLLEGE - Nine months after being convicted of sexually abusing 10 boys - a scandal that destroyed the once unimpeachable reputation of iconic Penn State football coach Joe Paterno - Jerry Sandusky is again claiming he did nothing wrong. Sandusky has rarely spoken about the allegations, although he has consistently maintained his innocence since his November 2011 arrest. The latest statements came Monday in portions of a taped interview aired on NBC's "Today" and transcripts posted on the website of a filmmaker who aims to clear Paterno's name.

In a jail house interview broadcast on NBC's Today show Monday morning, Jerry Sandusky sought to discredit former coach Mike McQueary's testimony that he saw Sandusky raping a child in a Penn State football locker-room shower in 2002. "I think there's a lot of things that transpired," Sandusky said in the interview. "I think these investigators, the way they went about business, his story changed a lot. " Sandusky, 69, went on: "I don't understand how anybody would have walked into that locker room from where he was and heard sounds associated that was sex going on," he said, before pausing to laugh.

HARRISBURG - Legislation to overhaul Pennsylvania's child-abuse reporting system is on a fast track. More than two dozen bills - including ones that would broaden the definition of child abuse - are under consideration in the House and Senate, four months after a task force released its report in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal. At a news conference in the Capitol on Monday, a bipartisan group of lawmakers announced a 16-bill package based on recommendations by the task force.

The prosecutor who sent Jerry Sandusky to jail is leaving the Attorney General's Office to enter private practice. Joe McGettigan will join the McAndrews Law Offices in Berwyn, working mainly in cases involving crime victims in organizational settings such as youth or religious groups, and in suits involving the abuse or bullying of children, the disabled, or the elderly, the firm announced Monday. Sandusky was convicted in June of molesting 10 boys on or near the Pennsylvania State University campus, where he was an assistant football coach.

The Second Mile, the nonprofit founded by now-convicted sex abuser Jerry Sandusky, has filed a court request in Centre County to transfer some remaining mentoring programs to another child-welfare charity. The Second Mile would transfer $200,000 to Arrow Child and Family Ministries, which serves children removed from homes due to abuse or neglect. - Robert Moran

HARRISBURG - Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky's "major claims" as he appeals a child sexual-abuse conviction include the many years that went by before accusers notified authorities, according to a pair of defense filings Monday. Attorney Norris Gelman said only one of the eight boys who testified against Sandusky reported allegations of abuse promptly. The others waited between four and 14 years. Penn State's costs from the scandal topped $41 million as of the end of December, the university posted Monday.