The wife of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky – implicated in a shocking child sex scandal – is coming to her husband’s defense.
Dorothy Sandusky released a statement through her husband's lawyer Thursday night, only hours after he was released from jail after posting $250,000 bail, with her help.

The statement read in part: "I have been shocked and dismayed by the allegations made against Jerry, particularly the most recent one that a now young man has said he was kept in our basement during visits and screamed for help as Jerry assaulted him while I was in our home and didn't respond to his cries for help.

Almost invisible in the Penn State sex abuse scandal is Dorothy Sandusky, the wife of accused child rapist Jerry Sandusky.

Dorothy "Dottie" Sandusky, who Jerry nicknamed "Sarge," was not only his partner in marriage, she also worked with him at his Second Mile charity, which investigators say is where the former Penn State football coach found the young boys he is alleged to have sexually assaulted.

Those abuses often took place in the Sandusky's State College, PA home, which he shared with Dorothy and their six adopted kids, five of them boys.

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Did Dorthy know what was going on? Should she have known? WRCB-TV, the NBC station in Dorothy's hometown of Chattanooga, asked several experts.

"I've seen it both ways," says clinical social worker Farlie Chastain. "In which the family knows and is in denial."