Mr. Boni named Mr. Sandusky, the Second Mile charity, Penn State and "a number of individuals" as potential defendants.

WSJ: Sandusky Accuser Plans to Testify

Mr. Boni said he and Philadelphia attorney Slade McLaughlin were hired last week to represent the boy and his mother.

WSJ: Sandusky Accuser Plans to Testify

Mr. Boni said he did not anticipate that there would be an impediment to suing Penn State because it is a public university.

WSJ: Sandusky Accuser Plans to Testify

The festivities will end with the broadcast of a message by Boni Yayi, President of the African Union and President of Benin, followed by a tasting of African dishes.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

At an AU meeting in Ethiopia on Sunday, which is continuing on Monday, outgoing AU chairman and Benin's President Thomas Boni Yayi criticised the slow response of African states to the Malian conflict.

BBC: Mali crisis: French-led troops 'surround Timbuktu'

Mr. Boni said the media glare surrounding the case has taken an emotional toll on the boy and his mother, and that recent remarks by Mr. Sandusky's lawyer, Joseph Amendola of State College, Pa.

WSJ: Sandusky Accuser Plans to Testify

"They're certainly within our crosshairs, " Mr. Boni said.

WSJ: Sandusky Accuser Plans to Testify

We follow the aging of the Carati parents and the progress of their four children above all, of Nicola (Luigi Lo Cascio), smiling and slightly guarded, who grows up to be a psychologist, and of his handsome brother Matteo (Alessio Boni), whose rage for order finds him joining the police.

NEWYORKER: The Best of Youth