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| ‘Victim 1’ book about Jerry Sandusky reported due in October Posted: 23 Sep 2012 06:39 AM PDT NEW YORK, Sept 23 — The teenager who triggered the successful prosecution of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky for child sex abuse, has a book coming out next month, the New York Post reports. The 18-year-old, whose testimony at trial helped lead to the conviction of Sandusky on 45 counts of child molestation, will also give his first interview to ABC News, timed to the release of the book, the Post said. The book was expected to hit the shelves in mid to late October, said the Post. RoseMarie Terenzio, a spokeswoman for the teenager, referred to as "Victim 1" in the case to protect his identity, did not respond to a request for comment. ABC News spokeswoman Nicole Enberg had no comment. Sandusky is due to be sentenced on October 9 in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. He faces up to 373 years in prison for sexually abusing 10 boys over a period of 15 years. Victim 1's decision to speak up in 2008 about the abuse resulted in Sandusky being barred from the boy's school district in 2009 and sparked an investigation by Pennsylvania authorities. Victim 1 later testified before a grand jury, which in 2011 indicted Sandusky as a serial paedophile who preyed on boys as early as 1994, raping one in a Penn State football shower in 2001. From his cell at the Centre County Correctional Facility, Sandusky is writing his own book with the help of his wife, Dottie, Pennsylvania's WJAC-TV reported. In 2000, Sandusky released his autobiography "Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story", about the Second Mile charity he founded for at-risk youth, which prosecutors at his trial said he used to find his victims. — Reuters |
| Neil Young cleans up for autobiographical memoir ‘Waging Heavy Peace’ Posted: 22 Sep 2012 05:46 PM PDT  Neil Young's "Waging Heavy Peace". — AFP/Relaxnews pic "I did it for 40 years," he said. "Now I want to see what it's like to not do it. It's just a different perspective." That's the lead, but in truth, the rest of the essay provides much contextual background. There's insight into what Young's time and money went towards over the years — classic motors, filmmaking, a school for handicapped children, business ventures developing a high-end automobile sound system and a model train set company — and a reminder of the the artist's own musical journey and the health issues that contributed to abstention from recreational drugs. Waging Heavy Peace is due for release on September 25; not long after, The Who's frontman Pete Townsend has Who I Am and Kenny Rogers has Luck or Something Like It publishing early October. — AFP/Relaxnews |
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