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TELLS THE JUDGE THAT A SPOT FOR
HIM HAS BEEN FOUND.
REPORTING LIVE OUTSIDE THE
FEDERAL BUILDING, DEREK BLAKELY.
MORE ON 53-YEAR-OLD SCOTT
CROSS, THE ONLY LIVING VICTIM
OF DENNIS HASTERT TO COME
FORWARD PUBLICLY.
WE HAVE CONTINUING COVERAGE
FROM OUTSIDE THE FEDERAL
BUILDING.
Reporter: IT WAS A
BOMBSHELL.
THE MAN THAT WE KNEW AS
INDIVIDUAL B IS NOW KNOWN AS
SCOTT CROSS.
AS HE WAS WHEELED INTO COURT,
DENNIS HASTERT WAS MOMENTS AWAY
FROM FACING SCOTT CROSS.
CROSS TOLD JUDGE THOMAS DIRKIN
HOW MUCH HE ADMIRED COACH
HASTERT WHEN HE WAS AN ASPIRING
ATHLETE YEARS AGO.
I RESPECTED AND TRUSTED COACH
HASTERT, CROSS SAID.
BUT THE COACH GAVE HIM A
MASSAGE THAT TURNED ***.
I GRABBED MY SHORTS AND RAN OUT
OF THE LOCKER ROOM.
CROSS IS NOW A 53-YEAR-OLD
HUSBAND AND FATHER.
HE CHOKED UP SAID HE HAD
INTENSE PAIN, SHAME AND GUILT.
HE SPOKE UP AND TOLD THE
TRUTH ABOUT WHAT COACH HASTERT
DID TO HIM.
THE WAY HE VIOLATED HIS TRUST
AND IN DOING SO, HE PERMANENTLY
SCARRED HIM. Reporter: BACK
WHEN HASTERT BECAME U.S. HOUSE
SPEAKER, HE WORKED WITH SCOTT'S
BROTHER.
TOM CROSS.> THIS IS THE GUY
THAT WE ALL KNOW. Reporter:
SIT -- FACING SENTENCING,
HASTERT ASKED TOM CROSS FOR A
LETTER OF REFERENCE TO GIVE TO
THE JUDGE.
IN COURT, HASTERT SAID HE COULD
NOT REMEMBER MOLESTING CROSS.
TOM CROSS SAID IN A STATEMENT
THAT WE ARE VERY PROUD OF SCOTT
FOR HAVING THE COURAGE TO
RELIVE THIS VERY PAINFUL PART
OF HIS LIFE IN ORDER TO ENSURE
THAT JUSTICE IS DONE TODAY.
ALSO STEPHEN RIBALD WAS
TORMENTED FOR DECADES AFTER
HASTERT MOLESTED HIM.