This probably does not warrant posting, but what the...
DAILY NEWS
Teri Thompson , Michael O'keeffe & Kevin Armstrong
November 15 2011, 1:59 PM
Jerry Sandusky’s lawyer, Joe Amendola,
got a 16-year-old client pregnant and later married her
Girl was seeking emancipation from her parents in 1996
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Joe Amendola, the State College, Pa., attorney representing
accused child molester Jerry Sandusky, has an interesting back story himself:
He got a teen-age client pregnant during the mid-1990s.
Amendola, 63, married the girl several years after the birth of their child,
The Daily reported Monday night, citing documents filed at the Centre County, Pa., courthouse.
Amendola represented a 16-year-old girl then known as Mary Iavasile
when she filed an emancipation petition in September 1996.
The emancipation petition said the girl had graduated from high school
in two years with a 3.69 GPA and held a fulltime job at Amendola's law office.
The girl gave birth to Amendola's child when she was 17 years old,
her mother, Janet Iavasile, said.
Amendola would have been about 49 years old at the time.
The age of consent in Pennsylvania is 16.
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Sandusky is not the only member of the Penn State football community
who was represented by Amendola after being accused of a sexual crime.
Amendola also represented Nittany Lions tailback, Austin Scott
after another student accused Scott of rape in 2007.
Centre County prosecutors dropped the case on the eve of trial in 2008
when a judge said the jury could be told that the alleged victim
had accused another man of a similar crime four years earlier.
The man in the earlier case was acquitted.
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