Video: Jerry Sandusky speaks out

>>> in a lengthy revealing interview about his contact with young boys , an interview with jerry sandusky .

>> reporter: jerry sandusky again denied charges that he sexually molested children. but has he also given prosecutors frash ammunition that he can use against him?

>> these allegations are false. i didn't do those things. i don't know what to say.

>> reporter: the former penn state defensive coordinator spoke for nearly four hours to the "new york times," his most detailed conversation yet of the conduct that had led prosecutors to file 40 criminal charges against him for allegedly abusing eight children over 13 years. sandusky provided his version of the crucial moment when penn state 's then athletic director , tim curley, confronted him about a 2002 allegation involving a 10-year-old boy in the shower in the school's locker room.

>> he was coming to me with a concern because -- and i guess in his words, somebody had talked to him about an inappropriate behavior in the shower. i told him that it didn't happen, and there wasn't -- in my mind there wasn't inappropriate behavior.

>> reporter: sandusky said that coach joe paterno never talked to him about any of this.

>> i don't know that he didn't know. i know that he never said anything to me. i know that.

>> reporter: sandusky also tried to explain his response last month when nbc's bob costas asked him a question that appeared to throw him.

>> are you sexually attracted to young boys , to underage boys?

>> am i sexually attracted to underage boys? sexually attracted ? i enjoy young people . i love to be around them. but no, i'm not sexually attracted to young boys .

>> i was saying, what in the world is this question. if i say no, i'm not attracted to boys, that's not the truth. because i'm attracted to young people , boys, girls.

>> not sexual. you were trying --

>> i enjoy -- that's what i was trying to say. i enjoy spending time with young people . i enjoy spending time with people.

>> reporter: for his part, paterno who is undergoing cancer treatments , still wasn't talking about the case today. but a lawyer for one of the alleged victims said sandusky 's continued public denials are painful for his client.

>> that felt like a punch in the stomach to me just knowing victim one and his mother.

>> reporter: lester, some legal analysts are wondering why sandusky is speaking to the press at all, saying all of this could come back to haunt him if in fact the case does proceed to trial. lester?

>> michael isakoff in pennsylvania tonight.

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