Dottie Sandusky, Jerry Sandusky’s wife, testified on Tuesday during her husband’s sexual abuse trial that she never heard a young boy yell for help when he was in her basement with Jerry.

The man referred to as “Victim 9” testified earlier in the trial that he called for help when he said Jerry Sandusky was sexually abusing him and he thought Sandusky’s wife was upstairs. He said no one ever came to his assistance.

Ever since Jerry Sandusky was charged with sexually abusing children in November, Dottie has stood by him.

Dottie Sandusky said her basement is not soundproof, though the man called “Victim 9” said he thought it was. Many also said they never saw Dottie in the basement.

However, in court Tuesday, Dottie, who has been married to her husband for 45 years, said she goes into her basement at least once a day because her freezer is down there. She also testified that the children who stayed in her house had a choice of where they wanted to sleep.

She also said that 90 to 95 percent of the time, her husband went to bed before her, but he did go downstairs to say goodnight to any children who stayed at her house.

Dottie said she knew many of the people who said they were abused by her husband and said many of them stayed overnight there. But she testified that the males who said Sandusky abused them stayed over less often than they testified.

Dottie said the man called “Victim 1” stayed over her house sometimes, but not every weekend, and she said the man called “Victim 4” stayed at her home overnight about once a month.

Dottie said in her testimony that she does not know the man called “Victim 10.”

The man called “Victim 4” traveled to the Alamo Bowl with the Sandusky family, Dottie said, and stayed with the couple in a hotel room.

One day during the trip, Dottie said, they were planning to go to a luncheon that they had paid $50 to go to. That day, she walked into the hotel room and saw her husband yelling at the man called “Victim 4” because he was refusing to go to the luncheon.

She said that both Sandusky and the man called “Victim 4” were fully clothed when she walked into the hotel room.

The man called “Victim 4” testified differently. He said that before Dottie walked in, Sandusky came into the bathroom where the man was going to get in the shower and asked him to perform oral sex on him.

The man said Sandusky threatened him if he wouldn’t do this, saying, “You don’t want to go back to Snow Shoe, do you?” Then, he said, Dottie came into the hotel room.

Dottie has not been charged in relation to charges against her husband.

The husband and wife have six adopted children, but no natural children.

Dottie said that it was difficult sometimes to be the wife of a football coach because he wasn’t around a lot. She said Jerry led a busy life and worked often.

She said Jerry Sandusky always returned home for dinner at about 6:30 or 7 p.m. during the football season.

Earlier in the day on Tuesday, many character witnesses testified on behalf of the former Penn State defensive coordinator, including former Second Mile participants, long-time friends of Sandusky and former Penn State athletes.

Two retired Penn State professors, Phillip Mohr and Jack Willenbrock, testified that Jerry Sandusky had a positive reputation in the community prior to the charges that were pressed against him.

Willenbrock said Sandusky is a father figure and is respected for his professional work.

Former Penn State and New York Jets football player Lance Mehl also testified on behalf of Sandusky.

“We all looked up to him,” Mehl said. “He was a class act.”

A former Penn State wrestler and national champion, James Martin, brought a photo album that was given to him by Sandusky, which also contained a poem written to him from the Sandusky family.

Martin said that he thinks that there is a lot of “speculation” about Sandusky’s reputation during this time, but he thinks prior to the charges filed against Sandusky, there was a “generally accepted feeling that he was honest and caring.”

Sandusky is charged with 51 counts of sexual abuse of children he met through The Second Mile, a charity he founded for underprivileged children. Closing arguments in the trial are expected Thursday.