BELLEFONTE, Pa. — The son of convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky has been arrested on similar charges.
Court records filed Monday say 41-year-old Jeffrey S. Sandusky was charged with 14 counts, including criminal solicitation and corruption of minors.
The state police investigation began in November when they were contacted by the father of a teenage girl who said his daughter had received inappropriate text messages from Sandusky.
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WTAJ-TV says state police accuse him of sending inappropriate texts to a victim and asking for naked photos.
Sandusky was arraigned Monday afternoon. A judge prohibited him from having contact with the alleged victim or anyone under the age of 18.
His defense lawyer, Lance Marshall, declined to comment on the allegations.
"All children have a right to be safe," said Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller. "We will prosecute this case as aggressively as we do all child abuse cases."
The state Corrections Department said that because of the charges, Jeffrey Sandusky was suspended without pay Monday from employment as a corrections officer at Rockview State Prison, near State College. He had been hired in August 2015.
Jeffrey Sandusky’s father, Jerry Sandusky, is serving a 30- to 60-year sentence in the state prison in Greene County after he was found guilty of various child sex abuse crimes.
Sandusky was a stalwart supporter of his father and accompanied his mother, Dottie, to many of his court proceedings. On Monday, Dottie accompanied Jeffrey Sandusky to his.
Jeffrey Sandusky has not made any public allegations of abuse by Jerry Sandusky, but one of his siblings, Matt Sandusky, alleged during their adoptive father's 2012 criminal trial that he had been abused by him. Matt Sandusky was not called as a witness, and Jerry Sandusky has never been charged with those allegations.
The Associated Press and Channel 2’s sister station WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh contributed to this report.
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