A lawyer representing Jerry Sandusky in the Penn State sex scandal has made a rather embarrassing flub.
Attorney Joseph Amendola, who represents Sandusky, told the media Tuesday that if anyone believed university officials on allegations against his client, they ought to call 1-800-REALITY.
Sure enough, 1-800-REALITY is a gay sex line. It’s the “the hottest place for triple-x action … Just 99 cents per minute.”
The Chicago Times reports:
Amendola’s quip came Tuesday after his client Jerry Sandusky stunned a packed courtroom and backed out of a preliminary hearing at the last minute, avoiding a face-to-face confrontation with accusers who the lawyer said were just trying to cash in by making up stories of child sex abuse. The remark outraged some of the accusers and advocates for victims of abuse and created a huge stir online.
Amendola, during his lengthy comments to reporters outside the courthouse, said that if former Penn State graduate assistant Mike McQueary had witnessed a 10-year-old boy being sexually assaulted in a campus shower and had told the head football coach, the athletic director, a university vice president and the university president and “their response was simply to tell Jerry Sandusky that ‘Don’t go into the shower anymore with kids,’ I suggest you dial 1-800-REALITY because that makes absolutely no sense.”
Sandusky faces 53 criminal counts, one of which accuses the former Penn State coach for raping a 10 year-old boy.
Amendola later explained that he uses the term “1-800-REALITY” akin to “get a life.”
