STATE COLLEGE- Attorneys for several people who say they were abused by former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky are asking a judge not to allow the charity he founded to transfer millions of dollars to a Texas nonprofit organization.

The Second Mile charity, once lauded for efforts to help at-risk youths, is now seeking court approval to formally transfer many programs to Arrow Child & Family Ministries Inc., based in Houston.

Sandusky, who founded the charity in the 1970s, was convicted last week of 45 counts in his child sex abuse trial. Prosecutors said it was through his charity that he met the eight accusers who testified against him.

The objection to the petition for distribution of assets was filed in Centre County Orphans' Court on Tuesday by attorneys representing accusers referred to in court papers as Victims 3, 5 and 7, as well as a 30-year-old man referred to as "John Doe A" who has filed a lawsuit in Philadelphia alleging that he met Sandusky through the charity in 1992 at the age of 10 and was abused over the next four years.

The attorneys argue that given that lawsuit and anticipated suits by others, "there is ample basis for believing (The Second Mile) will incur debts beyond its ability to pay." The filing says such debts "may readily exceed the total assets that (it) currently possesses" and notes that it "concededly has no ability to raise future funds."

"As (The Second Mile) pursues dissolution, the Court's first priority must be to preserve (The Second Mile's) assets to maximize (its) ability to pay its current and future liabilities," the filing said.

Meanwhile, the building that houses the charity's offices is up for sale. An online listing for The Second Mile's two-story office building showed an asking price of $750,000. A large "For Sale" sign covered the sign for the charity once visible on a busy street in State College, where Penn State is located.

Sandusky, who was charged with dozens of criminal counts related to 10 boys over a 15-year span, has maintained his innocence. Several former Second Mile campers took the witness stand at his trial on his behalf as character witnesses.

The $36 million charity operates in Pennsylvania, as well as Maryland, California and Honduras.

Arrow has said it hopes to hire all of The Second Mile's employees but will move them to new offices.