A formal coach of one of the top college football teams in the United States has been sentenced to at least 30 years in prison for child sex abuse. Jerry Sandusky of Penn-state University was found guilty of abusing boys as young as eight. Mr. Sandusky still maintained his innocence. Adam Brooks reports.
Jerry Sandusky`s minimum sentence of 30 years means he will probably die in prison. Sandusky was convicted of molesting ten children over a 15-year-period, some in the changing rooms in the showers at Penn-state. It emerged that the university officials were complicit in covering up his crimes in order to safeguard the university`s reputation. Football, even among undergraduate students, is very big business in the United States. And Penn State was accused of ignoring the abuse of children in order to protect its income from sports.
The Italian government has sacked the entire local governments in the southern city of Reggio Calabria to prevent it from coming under direct control of the local mafia. The decision was taken after inspectors from Rome found that a number of councilors had ties to Ndrangheta, which is Calabria`s version of the Sicilian mafia.
An unprecedented leap from the edge of the stratosphere by an Austrian skydiver has been postponed. The Helium balloon that was supposed to take Felix Baumgartner to an altitude of more than 36 km above the New Mexico desert in the United States has failed to inflate properly in gusting winds. Meteorologists say Thursday looks like the next opportunity for the launch.