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First witness in Sandusky trial says about 50 inappropriate things occurred

One of the alleged victims of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky testified on Monday during the first day of Sandusky's sexual assault trial that inappropriate things had happened "probably 50 times," the Harrisburg Patriot-News reported.

Identified as Victim 4, the 28-year-old man also said at the trial in Bellefonte, Pa., he thought former Penn State assistant coach Tom Bradley, who became the team's interim head coach in 2011, was "suspicious" when he found the boy and Sandusky in a Penn State shower.

Before cross-examination began Monday afternoon, prosecutors introduced to the jury contracts that Sandusky had written that indicated Victim 4 would be paid if he stayed in a "relationship" with Sandusky, got good grades, and completed other tasks.

During testimony, the man described an incident in Sandusky's car where he says he hit Sandusky with a bottle because Sandusky kept putting his hand on his knee.

The alleged victim got angry while explaining to Sandusky defense attorney Joseph Amendola two times that Sandusky attempted a specific sex act on him in the shower, and he said he squirmed with "all his might" to get away.

Amendola asked the man to read aloud two letters Sandusky had written him. Those letters were not among the "creepy love letters" the man mentioned earlier in his testimony, he said. "Some of them are more personal, like I love you and things like that," he said.

Amendola asked the alleged victim why he had denied the abuse for so many years. He had denied it when he was teased in school. He denied it to his family. He denied it to his girlfriend, and even took her to meet Sandusky when she began asking questions about their relationship.

When he took his girlfriend to meet Sandusky, he said she immediately could tell the rumors were true.

"I don't even want to admit it's happening," he said. "I've spent so many years of my life burying this. I find out it was happening over and over (to others), and I feel if I just had said something back then, they wouldn't have had this happen to them."

He said he didn't even want to be involved in the case. He told his story for the first time when he was subpoenaed to testify.

Victim 4 said Sandusky acted like two different people -- one person during the day when he was a father figure who gave him gifts, and another person at night. At night, he was a molester, Victim 4 said.