( CNN ) -- A victim in the sexual abuse case against Jerry Sandusky has sued Penn State University , saying he could n't reach a settlement with the university over claims that the longtime assistant football coach abused him . The man , known only as `` Victim 9 , '' is one of 10 victims who were part of the criminal trial , in which the Nittany Lions ' former defensive coordinator was convicted on 45 counts of sexual abuse in June 2012 . Since the trial , 26 men have settled claims with Penn State totaling $ 59.7 million in connection with the Sandusky scandal , the university announced last month . Sandusky , currently serving a 30- to 60-year sentence , has always maintained that he is innocent and wrongly convicted of abusing young boys he met through his charity , The Second Mile . Sandusky raises another appeal . Many of the victims were abused on Penn State 's campus , and some even after two incidents allegedly were brought to the university 's attention -- once in 1998 and again in 2001 . Victim 9 was raped repeatedly starting in 2005 when he was 12 years old , and ending around the time that another victim 's allegations finally started a police investigation into Sandusky 's decades of abuse . `` By the time this boy was introduced to Sandusky on the Penn State Campus , the top administrators at Penn State knew that Sandusky was a sexual predator , '' the man 's attorney , Stephen E. Raynes , said in a press release . `` It 's now clear that Penn State enabled Sandusky to sexually abuse more than twenty other children before Sandusky preyed on this boy . Each of those tragic assaults provided Penn State with the opportunity to stop Sandusky , opportunities which Penn State squandered . We will learn through this lawsuit why that happened and what additional lessons Penn State should learn from this tragic episode in its history . '' Penn State paying $ 59.7 million to settle Sandusky cases . Raynes said Victim 9 tried to negotiate a settlement with Penn State , but the university refused `` to compensate him adequately for what he needs and deserves . '' Penn State 's former president , vice president and athletic director are all awaiting trial on charges they lied to a grand jury , obstructed justice and failed to report allegations of abuse reported to them in 2001 . The abuse scandal resulted in the dismissal , in November 2011 , of legendary head coach Joe Paterno amid allegations that he failed to respond forcefully enough to reports of Sandusky 's crimes . Paterno died just weeks later , on January 22 , 2012 , at age 85 . Penn State has said a few other claims by Sandusky victims have not yet been settled . Investigators may take 2nd look at high school where Jerry Sandusky coached .
` ` ' ' '' was one of 10 victims in the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse case . He claims he was unable to reach a settlement with Penn State University . 26 men have settled claims totaling $ 59.7 million , the university announced in October . Sandusky was convicted in 2012 in a case that scandalized the fabled college football program .