14 DAY TRIAL // Former Penn State high-school football coach Jerry Sandusky was witnessed molesting a boy in 2011, at the school he worked at. He was tried and convicted by a grand jury in June 2012, for 45 counts of child abuse.
The 68-year-old man was convicted to 30 to 60 years in prison.
Victim #1 in the Sandusky case has decided to come forward for the first time, in an interview with ABC News. 18-year-old Aaron Fisher has decided to reveal his identity and face public scrutiny and embarrassment. He has chronicled his struggle in a book, "Silent No More: Victim 1's Fight for Justice Against Jerry Sandusky."
Fisher tells how he was first approached by the assistant coach when he was only 11 years old.
"He seemed like the all-natural father figure - something that most kids wished their dads did. […] Everybody, even my own father, said he does great things for kids," he says.
Because of Sandusky's good reputation, when the coach first touched him, Fisher didn't report it.
"He'd put his hand on my leg while we were driving. [...] My family never did that, so it was kind of weird," Fisher said.
The coach started abusing him on a regular basis, often taking him out of class under the pretense of football practice, with his parents never notified by the school about the boy's absences.
According to DeadSpin, the boy considered killing himself, after being harassed at school by those who supported the coach. He was forced to change schools.
"I thought maybe it would be easier to take myself out of the equation. [….] Let somebody else deal with it," he said. He had started feeling like a victim, as people were looking at him differently.
When he rebelled against the coach and refused him, Sandusky got more and more aggressive and started following the boy home from school, in his car. He had to hide in school bathrooms to avoid meeting with Sandusky.
As he came forward and charged the man, nobody would believe him. The high-school principal even stood in the way of him going to the police.