A Few Words on the Despicable Matt Sandusky

John Wetzler mentioned in his guest view, High School Coach Supports Sandusky, that he was Matt Sandusky’s guidance counselor, and he is sure Jerry Sandusky never abused him.

Matt Sandusky Betrayal

Smelling money from Penn State, which everyone knew motivated all the men who accused Jerry Sandusky, Matt decided to betray his father during the trial.

He had seen how other witnesses told lies and changed their stories, using recovered memory therapy as the excuse for “remembering” abuse that did not happen.

Matt went to attorney Andrew Shubin, who represented several men whose “memories” returned in time to testify and ultimately collect millions.

After all, Matt reasoned, if you lose an adoptive father, it is always possible to get another, but there is only one Penn State payout where anyone can make up any story and become rich.

During the trial, Matt suddenly remembered Jerry abused him when he was a teenager, right up until he was 21, but had forgotten about it.

Attorney Shubin saw the opportunity, the prosecution found out, and the shocking betrayal disrupted the defense strategy. Amendola advised Sandusky not to testify in his defense.

This was ironic, since while Matt had helped put Jerry in prison, Jerry had helped save Matt from prison.

Jerry had known Matt for much of his life and was a foster parent for the lad for a time.

When he was 18, Matt was in trouble with the law for burning down someone’s property. Jerry intervened, literally saved him from prison, agreed to adopt him legally, paid for his college, and, of course, never abused Matt.

Among the most despicable of the many villains and very few heroes of this story, Matt Sandusky is one of the worst.

He lived in the Sandusky house, lived off them, ate their food, and had shelter and love. He brought his children to Jerry and his wife, Dottie.

Matt told Sports Illustrated, “My life changed when I came to live here. There were rules, there was discipline, there was caring.”

Money tempted him to betray the man who had probably done the most for him.

Shubin could have done better for Matt. Penn State would only give Matt Sandusky $325,000, a fraction of what the other liars got.

After paying Shubin (and the attorneys he had to split with) more than $100,000 for his legal fees, Matt pocketed a little more than $200,000, which, to his pea brain and non-existent heart, was not a bad price to sell a father. It was a lot better than 30 pieces of silver.

But fool and his money soon parted. Matt blew through the money and was broke inside a year.

Matt even went on the lecture circuit to support a non-profit talking about Jerry’s abuse and trying to make money off of it.  No one was interested. His speeches were dull, possibly because lies get boring after a while.

His wife, who stuck close while the money lasted, soon found the incompetent, dishonest creep was back to where he was before Jerry Sandusky went on trial — broke and stupid.

But this time, he did not even have the support of Jerry and Dottie.  How much better it would have been had Jerry not adopted Matt.

He should have let the little criminal go to prison for arson when he was 18 instead of taking him in and giving him a home, a name, and a family, even supporting him still when he was 40.

In ancient times, a dunghill cock, a dog, a monkey, and a viper were inserted in the sack with the man who would kill his father and then thrown into the sea alive. Or he would be thrown to the beasts in the arena, burned alive, or whipped to death with a blood-colored rod.  Of course, those brutal punishments are gone.

Instead, today, we have solitary confinement—or death row. Jerry Sandusky spent five years in solitary because of the lies of Matt Sandusky and other liars like Sabastian Paden, Aaron Fisher, Jason Simcisko, Dustin Struble, the criminal Ryan Rittmeyer, Zach Konstas, the craven Brett Swisher-Houtz, and the odious Michal Kajak.

Now Sandusky sits in death row figuratively in prison. He is 80 with at least another 19 years to complete his sentence. A pack of liars put him there. He should not die there.

It is time for people of justice to study the Sandusky case and realize what happened. And demand Jerry Sandusky’s release or at least a new trial.

Just study the case, and if you are not a half-wit, you will see the injustice of the first trial.

And a fool like Matt Sandusky should wise up, admit his deception, and help set Jerry free before it’s too late.

The men who come forward now and help facilitate his release will get the lesser punishment.  After Jerry is freed by the sheer dispositive proof of their lies torn apart and exposed, it will be the sack for them, figuratively speaking.

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Frank Parlato

Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.

Frank Parlato

Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.

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