Convicted sex abuser Jerry Sandusky will most likely spend the rest of his life behind bars. But that isn’t stopping his victims from speaking out against the torment they faced at the hands of the former Penn State coach.
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The teenager known as Victim Number 1 in the Sandusky scandal has broken his silence about the years of abuse he endured at the hands of the Penn State predator.
Aaron Fisher, 18, told ABC News that he was only 12 years old when Sandusky first assaulted him inside his basement.
Afterward, Sandusky regularly pulled Fisher out of his classes and once even followed his school bus in a car.
As reported by ABC News:
“He told me to get in (but) I took off running…He drove on the opposite of the street, onto oncoming traffic to catch up with me.”
Fisher added. “He went to my house and parked out front.
“Yeah, it was that bad.”
Fisher came from a struggling family and had no father, making him the ideal victim — and Sandusky zeroed in on him almost immediately.
Fisher did everything he could to avoid the perverted coach, sometimes hiding in school bathrooms.
In a separate interview with People Magazine, Fisher recalled an emotional meeting with Sandusky’s other victims after the sentencing.
“I said, ‘I know what you guys went through,” he told the magazine. “I got some hugs and some handshakes and there were tears. … We had a very long battle to see justice done.”
Fisher added that he came forward to inspire other sex abuse victims.
“Make sure you don’t give up on doing the right thing, because for every time you stay quiet, there’s the person who did something to you, doing it to somebody else,” Fisher said. “Instead of being a victim, you can be a hero.”
Sandusky’s trail of abuse only further proves that he was a predator to young boys. We applaud Fisher for having the courage to speak out.
SOURCE: ABC News
