Convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky likely won't be forfeiting his $59,000 annual pension, despite being found guilty of 45 charges surrounding child sex abuse.
"My immediate, authentic, organic reaction as a human being and a woman is, how awful," Tara Fields, Ph.D., M.F.T.told The Huffington Post.
But Sandusky's crimes and other crimes against children do not fall under Pennsylvania's Act 140, a 1978 state statute that enables prosecutors to request the forfeiture of a criminal's pension.
Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant football coach, was convicted Friday of 45 of 48 criminal counts related to the alleged assault of 10 boys over a 15-year period. The allegations led to the ouster of Penn State University's president, and the university's longtime football coach Joe Paterno, who died in January.
The 68-year-old could spend the rest of his life in prison.
"How terrible it is that this type of crime was never incorporated in the bill," said Fields, a licensed marriage and family therapist who has not treated Sandusky.
Act 140 is largely related to embezzlement, tampering with witnesses, forging documents and similar crimes, according to veteran attorney and legal analyst Anne Bremner.
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