young boys he allegedly targeted over a span of more than 15 years. let s go straight to nancy grace who s been all over this case to try to get a better understanding of all of this. nancy, was this a smart decision by sandusky and his attorney? it was a win-win decision. it was a win for the defense joe johns because otherwise they would have had the case laid bear for the public of the granted it s a closed courtroom to cameras but there are spectators and reporters that can hear what happened and they would have had heard every excruciating detail. to our count, we can identify five alleged victims there waiting in line to testify against sandusky. so they would have given their testimony. the win for the prosecution is that the defense did not get a dry run at cross-examination. this is what i predicted to you yesterday should go down. the state should under no circumstance offer up all of the alleged victims like a thanksgiving turkey, to get sliced up on cross exam.
sexual abuse. she spent 18 years in prison until missouri s governor commuted her sentence. she tells her shocking story in the book redemption, sister hood, survival and the search for freedom behind bars. she joins me now with her longtime best friend tom wilson. thank you for joining me. it s an extraordinary story, your story. one that is complicated. one that inspires a lot of emotions. one that seemed to develop over the years. and now you find yourself here. with i guess the redemption, the comeback. how do you see where you ve got to? i look at the redemption as being able to tell my story, to find my voice and try to make a change in the lives of others and hopefully inspire them to come forward too. child sexual abuse is the only disease that cripples america that can be changed very easily
until missouri s governor commuted her sentence. she tells her shocking story in the book redemption, sister hood, survival and the search for freedom behind bars. she joins me now with her longtime best friend tom wilson. thank you for joining me. it s an extraordinary story, your story. one that is complicated. one that inspires a lot of emotions. one that seemed to develop over the years. and now you find yourself here. with i guess the redemption, the comeback. how do you see where you ve got to? i look at the redemption as being able to tell my story, to find my voice and try to make a change in the lives of others and hopefully inspire them to come forward too. child sexual abuse is the only disease that cripples america that can be changed very easily by speaking out against it. the worst thing about child
generation, i feel empowered. you thought you might get supported by hillary clinton supporters because you re a democrat and ideal logically feel the way that hillary does. you said you were surprised that you did not get the support in the sister hood of the traveling pantsuit. you said you need to look less sexy and more manly, how so? i got advice right from the beginning, cut your hair, wear less make up. dress like you re older, wear shorter heels, all those sorts of things. what i came to realize is it wasn t a put down on me. they wanted to protect me from the kind of sexism that they d seen. from my own perspective women who are stepping up of my generation to run now and to be successful in any career now we ve kind of decided that, you know what it s okay to be feminine and powerful and smart, it s okay to be all of those things, and to me that is sort of the next generation of
conversing in search of the truth. reporter: sister marlene hopes that s true, but there is no turning back. i don t think that that happens in any kind of living organism. god doesn t turn the church, doesn t turn creation in opposite directions. in other words, there is no turning back the clock for american nuns. our cnn analyst john allen tells us he expects the investigations will wrap up by december. and adds if the vatican wants the nuns to return to conservative lives, they should be patient. because young women who are considering sister hood are more conservative than their elders. and willing to return to wearing habits, although, convents, not so much. what is the fallout if anything in boycotting all or part of the questionnaire you were referring to? you know, we don t know. everything surrounding these