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Sandusky eligible for big pension

Posted at 6:26 PM, Jul 03, 2012
and last updated 2012-07-03 18:26:56-04

(WTVR) — Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is eligible to receive a pension of nearly 59 thousand dollars a year.

One Pennsylvania lawmaker wants to change it by proposing a new law. Eugene DePasquale, a Democratic state representative in Pennsylvania, is proposing a law that would make Sandusky ineligible to receive his pension.

The law would prevent public employees from drawing a pension after they’ve been convicted of certain crimes against children. It would also include a clause that will make the law retroactive to June 1st.

Jerry Sandusky was convicted in June of sexually abusing 10 boys over 15 years.