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Sandusky may get to keep $60K annual PSU pension despite child sex conviction: reports

Convicted child predator Jerry Sandusky, who could go to jail for the rest of his life, may still be eligible to receive his $60,000 annual Penn State University pension, according to reports.

Even though a Pennsylvania jury found the former assistant football coach guilty of 45 counts of child-sex-abuse charges last week, Sandusky has been collecting his retirement payment.

“That’s quite a handsome reward for someone who abused his power and abused these children,” state Sen. Larry Farnese, a Philadelphia Democrat, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

Sandusky’s atrocities are not included on a list of crimes outlined in Pennsylvania’s pension-forfeiture law, which lists theft, extortion, forgery, bribery and perjury.

Gary Schultz, Penn State’s former vice president of finance, would lose his pension if convicted on charges that he lied to a grand jury investigating Sandusky.

Sandusky is expected to be sentenced within the next three months. The law could be changed before then, but legislators would have to act fast to strip him of his $4,908 monthly payment.