We begin tonight with breaking news in the Jerry Sandusky child rape case. New accusations, incredible accusations from yet another alleged victim. But this time, though, it is Jerry Sandusky's adopted son. Matt Sandusky is his name. He said through his attorney late today that Jerry Sandusky sexually abused him and that he was prepared to testify for the prosecution during the trial. Now he was not called to the stand. We're gonna get into why in just a moment because that's of course the question everyone wants to know the answer to. First, though, a bit of background. Matt Sandusky is 33 years old now. He went to live with the Sanduskys as a foster child. He was later adopted. He’d denied ever being abused by Sandusky until just this week. As the trial was going on, he apparently approached prosecutors and told them that his adopted father did molest him. Joining me now live with the latest, national correspondent Jason Carroll. Also CNN contributor and Patriot News reporter, Sara Ganim. 

 

Jason, if Matt Sandusky's claims that he was molested was known by the prosecution, why didn't they call him to testify? 

 

Well, I think it's a good question. I think there's a question in terms of whether or not his testimony would have been admissible simply because for one reason Jerry Sandusky is not charged with sexually abusing his son. I can tell you this, think of this scenario. Let's say, for example, Jerry Sandusky had taken the witness stand and had said during his testimony, I'm a great father, I have a great relationship with my children. That then would have opened the door for the prosecution to call a rebuttal witness. And my sources told me if Jerry Sandusky had taken the stand, they were prepared to put Matt Sandusky on the stand as a rebuttal witness. And my source tells me that his testimony, Anderson, would have been, quote, "very, very damaging." Now also let me just sort of backtrack here a little bit. When the trial first began on day one, I saw Matt Sandusky sitting there on the sidelines with the rest of the Sandusky family. So what happened between then when the trial happened and today when we got this statement from his private attorney who basically said Matt Sandusky contacted this private attorney and said I wanted him to reach out to prosecutors and tell them, quote, "to disclose for the first time in this case that he is a victim of Jerry Sandusky's abuse." Anderson. 

 

No, Sara, Matt Sandusky, and correct me if I'm wrong here, but Matt Sandusky's wife had petitioned the court to not allow their kids to sleep over at Jerry Sandusky's house. This was a long time ago, correct? 

 

That's right. And probably even more importantly, his mother, as far back as 1996, had been asking the courts to take a deeper look into the relationship between Matt and Jerry Sanduskys. When he was in foster care at the Sandusky home, she had seen behavior that she would later describe to the grand jury as strange, as stalking-like behavior. 

 

She described one time where Matt Sandusky fled from the Sandusky, Matt, who was Matt Heigel at the time, fled from the Sandusky's home in the middle of a rainstorm in the middle of the night and didn't want to go back. Even after Jerry showed up in a relative's house where Matt was hiding out. 

 

And so she describes all of these things. But Matt Sandusky himself got before the grand jury and we don't know exactly what he testified to, but Joe Amendola, who's Jerry Sandusky's attorney, told me at the time, it was nothing that they were worried about. That they expected him to be a positive witness for Jerry Sandusky. And they felt that his biological mom was just angry at Jerry Sandusky and was making these allegations. 

 

And his biological mom had also testified in front of that same grand jury recently, correct? 

 

Right. She testified about a year ago. And that's what she said. 

 

A year. 

 

She said, you know, that she witnessed this stalking-like behavior. That she witnessed him flee from Jerry Sandusky's house in the middle of a rainstorm. And that she confronted her son before he was adopted. And asked him if anything strange was going on, and he said nothing, except I don't want to talk about it. 

 

And, Jason, the accuser number four who testified actually mentioned Matt Sandusky during his testimony. What did he, what did he say about him? 

 

He did. He was the first witness to testify on day one of the trial. He said he was about 13 years old. He had taken a shower with, with Jerry Sandusky at Penn State. It was one of those soap battles that we've heard so much about. And that's when he said he came into contact with Matt Sandusky, Sandusky. He said, quote, "He," as in Jerry Sandusky, "started pumping his hand full of soap like he was going to throw it. Matt got out. He went to another shower." Then prosecutor McGettigan said, "Can you describe how Matt looked?" Number four's answer was, "Nervous." And I think the implication was very clear there. Anderson.