BELLEFONTE, Pa. • Ex-Pennsylvania State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky lashed out Friday at former friends and neighbors whose complaints prompted prosecutors this week to seek his confinement inside his State College house.

Sandusky's remarks to reporters came moments after a court heard testimony that several people had expressed concern over his frequent presence on his back deck, yards from a neighboring elementary school.

"All of a sudden, these people turn on me when they've been in my home with their kids, they've attended birthday parties here for my grandchildren, they've been on that deck and in that yard," he said.

"It's been difficult, to be honest." But prosecutors argued that those same friends and neighbors had good reason to be worried.

"This home was not safe for children 15 years ago, and it's not safe for children now," said Deputy Attorney General Jonelle H. Eschbach.

Friday's hearing addressed a hodgepodge of pretrial issues as prosecutors and Sandusky's defense prepare to take the case to trial May 14. Centre County Court Judge John M. Cleland did not make any rulings.

In addition to the question of the former coach's bond conditions, prosecutors renewed their request to have jurors from outside Centre County hear the case, citing the overwhelming pretrial publicity and the important role Penn State and Sandusky's charity, the Second Mile, play in the community.

One in three people in Centre County is either a Penn State student or employed by the university, prosecutor Joseph McGettigan said.

Sandusky's attorney, Joseph Amendola, has opposed the motion, arguing that publicity generated by the case has so saturated the state as to make any distinction in locales irrelevant. Sandusky briefly took the stand Friday as Cleland questioned whether he agreed with his lawyer's advice.

"I don't believe it matters relative to anywhere else in the state," he said. "It's going to come down to the people who are on the jury."

Since his arrest in November, Sandusky has denied charges he molested at least 10 boys he met through the Second Mile in alleged incidents in hotel rooms, his home and on the Penn State campus.

Prosecutors introduced into evidence Friday several videos shot by one of Sandusky's neighbors depicting him on his back porch.

The man had called investigators with concerns about the porch's proximity to nearby Lemont Elementary School. Citing several similar complaints, prosecutors asked Cleland to further limit Sandusky's movements to inside his home.

He has been confined to his property and barred from any contact with children since his release on bond in December.