One of the young men who has accused the former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky of sexual abuse sought an injunction Wednesday to stop the Second Mile charity from transferring or divesting its assets. In court papers, the accuser said he and others planned to sue the charity, which was founded by Sandusky in 1977 and reported assets of more than $9 million last year. 
 
 In the papers filed in a Pennsylvania state court, lawyers for the accusers also maintain that there are at least 11 people who have been victimized by Sandusky who have come forward and who will probably file civil claims against the Second Mile. 
 
 Sandusky, the former defensive coordinator at Penn State, has been charged with 40 counts of sexual abuse. Lawyers for the accusers said officials of the Second Mile were negligent for failing to report what they knew of earlier sexual abuse accusations against Sandusky over several years. Grand jury testimony in the case indicated that the Second Mile learned of concerns about Sandusky’s contact with boys, including occasions when he showered with them, nearly a decade ago. 
 
 “We felt it was necessary to take this action after learning the organization was considering transferring its programs and not continuing its operations,” Benjamin Andreozzi and Jeffrey Fritz, lawyers for a client they referred to as Victim 4, said in a statement. “We believe it is in the best interest of our clients, as well as the other victims, to ensure that the organization is being financially responsible.” 
 
 Andreozzi, based in Harrisburg, Pa., has advised or is representing several Sandusky accusers. He recently partnered with Fritz, a Philadelphia lawyer. The injunction requests that Second Mile assets “not be dissipated, encumbered or in any way obligated or disturbed in any form and should be available to victims of sexual abuse.” 
 
 In the court papers, Andreozzi and Fritz assert that the Second Mile was reckless in its hiring, supervision and retention of Sandusky and negligent when it did not contact law enforcement or child protective services when it learned of sexual abuse accusations. The papers also maintain that the charity failed to properly supervise Sandusky’s one-on-one or overnight activities with the boys he came in contact with through the Second Mile. 
 
 On Nov. 14, the Second Mile accepted the resignation of Jack Raykovitz, who was the charity’s chief executive for 28 years. Last week, the Second Mile’s interim chief said the charity’s directors were considering closing the organization or transferring its programs, which primarily serve disadvantaged youths, to other nonprofit organizations. 
 
 “The injunction would not interrupt the everyday operations of the Second Mile or its existing operations,” Andreozzi and Fritz said. “We hope that the organization has enacted appropriate policies and procedures to prevent this tragic situation from ever occurring again. We have reached out to attorneys for the Second Mile in the hope that appropriate safeguards against the dissipation of assets can be reached, but are proceeding with these legal measures in order to protect the interests of our clients and other victims in the event we are unable to come to an agreement.” ||||| Somehow, Three Percent Of Pennsylvanians Still View Jerry Sandusky Favorably 
 
 The folks at Public Policy Polling (PPP) were curious: what do people in Pennsylvania think of now-former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, now that Paterno’s been fired as a result of the child rape scandal surrounding his former defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky? And their curiosity didn’t stop there: what did Pennsylvanians think of Paterno’s firing? What do they think of Penn State itself? And what do they think of the man accused of some of the worst crimes imaginable – Sandusky himself? 
 
 It’s the response to that last question that was at once the most predictable and most fascinating. Predictable, because Sandusky now has the dubious distinction of being the least popular person about whom PPP has ever conducted a poll. 88 percent of those polled said they view Sandusky unfavorably, while three percent said they had a positive opinion of him. On the one hand: well, of course Sandusky would be that unpopular. The nature of the allegations against him are too much to overcome. 
 
 On the other hand: three percent still have a positive opinion of him?! Yeah, we get that the guy has a right to due process and all that, but have you seen how his lawyer is trying to defend him? Not to mention: Sandusky admitted to showering with boys! In the absolute best-case scenario (which would have to involve a vast conspiracy against Sandusky), he’s really, really creepy! As far as we can tell, having a positive opinion of Sandusky requires not knowing who he is, having extraordinarily little faith in the grand jury that investigated him, or…well, something worse than those other two reasons, let’s put it that way. 
 
 There were other interesting results of the poll, too. Penn State, for example, still enjoys great popularity: 61 percent of those polled viewed it favorably, next to just 25 percent with a negative opinion. And Paterno is still popular: he was viewed favorably by nearly a 2-to-1 margin (51 percent to 28 percent), and viewed favorably in every demographic. Interestingly, though, while Paterno received support, so did the decision to fire him: 45 percent thought it was the right call, while 38 percent disagreed. 
 
 The Sandusky numbers, though, are what we’re really going to keep thinking about. Who are those three percent who still like him? Why? Can PPP get back in touch with that three percent and ask them why they still like this guy? Whatever their reasoning, we’d strongly disagree, of course – but we’d like some closure all the same, to put our minds somewhat at ease. Oh, and as for the previous least popular person PPP ever polled anyone on: former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. And we bet anything he’d recoil at the crimes Sandusky’s accused of committing, too. 
 
 [h/t Seth Meyers, via Off the Bench] 
 
 Photo by Andy Colwell for the Patriot-News
– Despite his reported role in the Penn State sex abuse scandal, it probably won’t surprise you to hear that 51% of people surveyed in a recent Public Policy Poll still view beloved coach Joe Paterno favorably. You probably also won’t be shocked to hear that 88% of respondents view alleged abuser Jerry Sandusky unfavorably. You may, however, be taken aback by the news that 3% still have a positive opinion of Sandusky, according to SportsGrid. Meanwhile, one of Sandusky’s accusers sought an injunction this week that would stop Sandusky’s Second Mile charity from transferring its assets, the New York Times reports. “We felt it was necessary to take this action after learning the organization was considering transferring its programs and not continuing its operations,” the lawyers say in a statement. The court papers note that at least 11 alleged victims plan to sue the organization, which is accused of failing to properly supervise Sandusky or report what it knew about abuse allegations against him.