Jerry Sandusky’s lawyer, Joe Amendola, got a 16-year- old client pregnant and later married her

[The Straight Story]

Jerry Sandusky’s lawyer, Joe Amendola, got a 16-year- old client pregnant and later married her

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.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/jerry-sandusky-s-lawyer-joe-amendola-a-16-year-old-client-pregnant-married-article-1.977873

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[notadmblnd]

6. Are you making some kind of threat?

[WinkyDink]

7. Are you attempting some kind of "clever" refutation of a fact?

[former9thward]

8. Are you saying he should not be allowed a legal defense?

Any other parts of the Constitution you would like to throw out as well?

[kestrel91316]

2. Where I come from that's considered a major breach of professional ethics.

Why wasn't he disbarred??

[Tansy_Gold]

4. Probably because she worked for him first

She was a 16-year-old working full time for him after graduating from high school. Under Pennsylvania law she was over the age of consent. She consented, and she got pregnant. They eventually married, had another child together, and separated. Amendola is described as a good father.

That doesn't make what he did ethical, but neither does it make what he did illegal. Poor judgment on his part? Maybe.

But this really is a distraction, and it takes away Mary Amendola's right to make her own decisions, which she apparently did.

[customerserviceguy]

3. I guess it tells us what kind of lawyer

would take this asshat on as a client.

[Initech]

5. Like they said on Breaking Bad: there's criminal attorneys and then there's *CRIMINAL* attorneys.