abc s jim avila has more. reporter: abc news confirmed that jerry sandusky s 33-year-old adopted son, matt, until now his biggest supporter, has turned on his dad and offered to testify that he was personally abused by jerry. that s matt ducking into court. his attorney released this statement saying, during trial last friday he arranged a meeting with prosecutors to disclose for the first time in this case that he is a victim of jerry sandusky s abuse. matt took his own children to visit jerry early in the case, over the objections of their mother. and began this trial just ten days ago seated right next to his adopted mother dottie. visibly supporting sandusky. so why didn t prosecutors call him to testify? sources familiar with the case tell abc news, matt was waiting in the wings in case sandusky decided to testify. and then could be used as a rebuttal witness. you put a witness like that
order. jurors don t know. important to know, don t know that sandusky s adopted son said he was molested too. the new york times is reporting this morning there is really no details beyond that claim. yeah. the jurors are sequestered. they have to turn over their cell phones, and pretty much every bit of information. they re pretty much on lock down. not allowed to watch tv. listen to the radio. they have no idea this information is out there. should get a pretty quick verdict experts think. we ll see. to capitol hill where party lines are hardening after a house committee, cited eric holder for contempt of congress. holder has refusd to catiranc vendetta. spekboeis b measured a he sent a me to of party telling them not to gloat if the supreme court finds all
into the economy, he said he s prepared to do that. the good news, if there s any, the banks got what they expected essentially. they knew this was coming and they prepared for it. they have recent safeguards in place. basically when you downgrade a bank, it means they have to pay for more its debt and then there s the trickle down effect and we have to kind of pay for that. hate it when that happens. moody s has been doing this. in june it downgraded spain by three notches after downgraded 16 german lenders in main. moving on, jurors in the jerry sandusky case will begin their first full day of deliberations this morning but without one bombshell piece of information. just after the panel was sequestered, sandusky s adopted son, matt, revealed he was prepared to testify he had been abused as well. that was an about face since matt had repeatedly denied it in
thursday the prosecution asked jurors to convict sandusky soften everything. the defense insisted the state s case simply made no sense. jerry sandusky s 33-year-old adopted son matt until now his biggest supporter now insists he too was molested by his father. so why wasn t he called as a state witness? sources familiar with the case tell abc news, matt was waiting in the wings in case sandusky decided to testify and then could be used as a rebuttal witness. you put a witness like that up on the witness stand they re open to strong cross-examination because of prior inconsistent statements. first you said you weren t. now you say you are. which one is the truth? reporter: the fate of the assistant football coach is now in the hands of the jury. during an impassioned argument that lasted over an hour, the defense attorney recounted how the alleged victims stories changed and how some were out to make money. i ll tell you if he did this he should rot in jail the rest of his life, a
abused as well. that was an about face since matt had repeatedly denied it in the past. you put a witness like that up on the witness stand, they re open to strong cross-examination because of prior inconsistent statements. first you said you weren t, now you say you are. which one s the truth? sources tell abc news if sandusky had testified, prosecutors could have used matt as a rebuttal witness. the jurors will be back at work at 9:00 this morning. now to the trayvon martin case. for the first time we re hearing george zimmerman s side of the story in detail. newly released videotape shows zimmerman reenacting that confrontation for police blow by blow. reporter: standing on the very spot where he shot 17-year-old trayvon martin just the day before, george zimmerman described a vicious attack to police. my body was on the grass and my head was on the cement. he just kept slamming it, slamming it.