Jerry Sandusky has responded to the reports that one of his accusers is expected to recant his testimony against the former Penn State football coach.

Victim 10 — now known to be Ryan Rittmeyer — has recanted his testimony against the former Penn State football assistant coach in an affidavit from 2025, according to court documents.

Speaking by phone with Action News Investigative Reporter Chad Pradelli from SCI-Laurel Highlands in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, Sandusky claimed his innocence once again.

“This is the worst experience of my life. I am an innocent man, and I have been convicted by so many people with their own personal agendas, and this was an opportunity to take advantage of a tremendous financial gain,” Sandusky said.

Sandusky has made repeated attempts to overturn his convictions since 2012, including a series of evidentiary hearings in 2016 and 2017, but recent attempts to reach the court have fallen short.

Now, Sandusky is set to stand at an evidentiary hearing on September 8.

During the 2012 trials, Rittmeyer testified that he had multiple nonconsensual sexual encounters with Sandusky starting before a football game in the fall of 1997.

According to a document dated June 30, 2025, however, Rittmeyer claimed he had no “clear or certain” memory of Sandusky sexually abusing him when he was first interviewed by the Pennsylvania State Police. He said that investigators came to him to help stop a predator and encouraged him to reconsider his recollection of encounters with Sandusky.

“I want to be home in the worst way, and I want my grandkids to know the truth,” Sandusky said Friday.

Sandusky, now 82, was convicted in June 2012 on 45 counts, including the sexual abuse of 10 boys. The former Penn State coach received 30 to 60 years in prison.

According to AOL, Sandusky and his legal team filed a 52-page amended Post-Conviction Relief Act petition on Thursday in an attempt to broaden the scope of the September 8 hearing.

Sandusky is seeking to revive multiple allegations, including that former prosecutors Joseph McGettigan and Frank Fina manipulated testimony, failed to disclose changing accounts from accusers, and became involved in matters tied to later civil litigation.

“Money became such a huge motive for everybody, and they incentivized the accusers and led them,” Sandusky said. “Without leading, the accusers in the beginning didn’t make allegations.”