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Prosecutors have obtained multiple incriminating and “bizarre” letters that former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky allegedly wrote to one of his accusers in his sexual abuse trial, a source familiar with the evidence tells NBC News.

The sexual abuse trial of US football coach Jerry Sandusky is set to begin, as a judge rules accusers cannot use pseudonyms when they take the stand.

The trial of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, charged with 52 counts of child sex abuse, will begin next week in Pennsylvania as scheduled, the presiding judge ruled Wednesday.

The child-sex-abuse trial of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky has been rescheduled for early June.

A psychologist who looked into a 1998 allegation against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky told police at the time that his behavior fit the profile of a likely pedophile, NBC News reported Saturday.

Jerry Sandusky will ask that his child sex abuse case be dismissed after a judge said his request for specific information was "moot.''

The judge in Jerry Sandusky's child sex abuse trial ruled Monday that the former Penn State assistant coach's jury will be composed of residents of State College and the surrounding area and that he has permission to visit with most of his grandchildren.

Prosecutors asked Tuesday to have Jerry Sandusky kept indoors as part of his bail conditions, citing complaints that the former Penn State football assistant was seen outside and watching children in a schoolyard from the back porch of his home, where he remains under house arrest while awaiting trial on child molestation charges.

Penn State University President Rodney Erickson faces a crowd of alumni Wednesday in Pittsburgh, some of whom aren't happy about the way the school handled the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, the firing of football coach Joe Paterno and a lack of transparency over the case.

Rarely mentioned is the sobering statistic that more than one-third of the sexual abuse of America's children is committed by other minors.