Sandusky on Third Day of Trial and Victim No.10

The 25-year-old man, identified in the indictment as "Victim 10," said Sandusky performed oral sex on him "and vice versa" in the Sandusky home in 1998, when he was in the seventh grade. 

"He said if I told anyone, I would never see my family again," the man said. Sandusky then apologized and said "he loved me," the man said, adding that he remained silent about incidents until last year "because I was scared, I was ashamed (and) I was embarrassed Although Sandusky's accusers are being identified by name in court, NBC News and msnbc.com do not identify victims of sexual assaults.

Sandusky, 68, the former longtime defensive coordinator at Penn State, denies all 52 counts alleging that he abused 10 boys over 15 years. Two grand jury reports accused him of having used his connection to one of the nation's premier college football programs to "groom" the boys, whom he met through his Second Mile charity for troubled children, for sexual relationships.

It was the third straight day that jurors in Bellefonte, Pa., heard disturbingly graphic descriptions of Sandusky's alleged pedophilia. Two of the alleged victims testified Wednesday, and three more alleged victims are scheduled to testify.

A 27-year-old man identified in the indictment as "Victim 7" testified that Sandusky, whom he first met in 1995 as a young boy, would grab him around the knees "and then eventually he would move his hand up my leg."

"If I was wearing shorts, his hands would go up my leg towards my groin area," he said. If he was wearing longer pants, he said, Sandusky would reach in and "touch my penis." 

Sandusky gave the boy tickets to Penn State football games for more than a dozen years, beginning in 1997, he said. The man testified that he didn't tell his story until last year because "it was just something I didn't want my family or anyone to know. I just figured I'll keep it to myself and I get to to go to these games, so I'll push that part to the back of my mind."

A 23-year-old man identified in the indictment as "Victim 5" later testified that Sanduskey exposed himself to him in a Penn State sauna in summer 2001 and afterward groped him as they were taking a shower.

The man said he tried to get away from Sandusky, "but I didn't have anywhere more to go, and I just felt his penis on my back ... and I felt his arm move forward, and he touched my area — my genitalia — and then he took my hand and he placed it on his," said the man, who had to stop several times to fight back tears.

The man said he didn't tell anyone about the incident until last year because "I wanted to forget and I was embarrassed."

Defense attorneys spent much of their cross-examination questioning the three men on details of their alleged encounters with Sandusky, part of a strategy to raise questions about whether the alleged victims — some of whom have sued the university or have said they plan to sue Sandusky — are making up their  stories for financial gain.

After a conference at the bench, Judge John Cleland allowed prosecutors to play the audio of Sandusky's interview last November on the NBC News program "Rock Center."

Sandusky had little visible reaction as he heard himself deny the charges aginst him and tell NBC News' Bob Costas that he wasn't sexually attracted to young boys. 

Being no dummy the defense played the Costas interview knowing that they can never put Sandusky on the witness stand because he would get burnt by the prosecution.  But they needed to have him deny the charges in some legal way therefore they got that on the tape. Ingenious!