Because Paterno did not report the three incidents to top university officials or police, Glazer said, the university can legally claim it was unaware of them and thus remains insured for any settlements with victims prior to 1992, when the liability policy was changed to exclude sexual abuse.
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The network cited court documents and sources with knowledge of the legal proceedings.
Penn State was rocked by the allegations against Sandusky when a massive sex-abuse scandal erupted in 2011.
The insurers say a boy told the longtime Penn State football coach in 1976 that he had been molested by Sandusky.
NBC said the three other coaches, who were not named in the article, went on to work in the National Football League and at Division I colleges. The coaches were not identified.
Old wounds reopened Thursday in the Jerry Sandusky child abuse scandal as Penn State and its insurance company fought through the court system.
Four years after Joe Paterno’s death, the allegations of what and when the legendary Penn State coach knew about Jerry Sandusky are getting more grim by the day.
Paterno was sacked following Sandusky’s November 2011 arrest and died of lung cancer in January 2012.
On Thursday, a Pennsylvania judge scheduled a hearing later this month for Sandusky, where he will be granted an opportunity to prove that prosecutors withheld evidence and leaked grand jury information in a bid to find more victims, the Associated Press reported.
Sandusky is appealing his conviction while he serves a 30 to 60-year sentence in the state prison near Waynesburg, Pa. Marci Hamilton, a NY law professor who has represented some of his victims, said “overwhelming evidence” shows he was a serial pedophile. “One could not be reached and the fourth alleged witness” name was not released to NBC News. So I am asking, no, I am pleading with you, Chair Masser, to direct university counsel to release all the details related to this stale and highly suspect allegation so that all the stakeholders, but most importantly we the trustees of this university can evaluate and understand the context surrounding this claim.
Defense attorney Al Lindsay said after speaking with Sandusky that his client denied that any of the incidents described in the court ruling occurred.
Paterno family attorney Wick Sollers has said Mr. Paterno did not cover up for Sandusky, who was convicted in 2012 of abusing 10 boys as early as the 1990s.
Penn State assistant coaches are alleged to have seen inappropriate contact twice between Sandusky and a minor, according to Judge Glazer’s filing. The unidentified victim, who was 15 years old at the time and is now 62, was in and out of foster homes, and claims to have been given beer and pot by Sandusky, after Sandusky picked him up while hitchhiking. In response to this allegation and the subsequent media hype, the Paterno family is demanding a full public review of the facts. Over the past 4 1/2 years, numerous allegations that were taken as fact when they were initially communicated have been proven false.
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If the allegation were true, it would suggest his father had protected “an obscure assistant coach no one had yet heard of” in 1976, Paterno wrote.
