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Pennsylvania court reinstates Sandusky's $4,900 monthly pension

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Convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky (C), a former assistant football coach at Penn State University, …

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania court on Friday reinstated Jerry Sandusky's pension, ruling that a state board had improperly stripped payments to the former Penn State assistant football coach after his 2012 conviction for sexually abusing boys.

The State Employees Retirement System (SERS) wrongly denied Sandusky and his wife his $4,900-a-month pension in October 2012, the court ruled, saying he was entitled to the money in part because he had already retired as assistant to legendary head coach Joe Paterno at the time of the crimes.