Sandusky will spend the rest of his natural life in prison, and Penn State is litigating a claim against its insurance company arguing the university is owed reimbursement for the more than $60 million in payments it has made to Sandusky’s victims.
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In a 2012 interview with The Post’s Sally Jenkins, Paterno could not explain how Sandusky evaded him and so many different authorities, for so long.
The seriousness of this matter demands that we all insist on facts and due process.
His family said in reference to the new claims they want “a full public review of the facts”, NBC News reported.
Will we hear more about this allegation? “Because it’s not.” Sue Paterno, the coach’s widow, said in a letter to the Penn State board that the family had no knowledge of the new claims.
Paterno’s family, through its lawyer, dismissed the claim, insisting that scrutiny from “an endless list” of investigators and lawyers over the years still had not proven any wrongdoing by the coach. “We can not allow this situation to be ruled by allegations and speculation….”
– Creation of the Center for Protection of Children (at Penn State Hershey Medical Center).
Sandusky is serving 30 to 60 years for his crimes.
Penn State spokesman Lawrence Lokman has said the university is bound by confidentiality agreements that govern victim settlements.
“Serial pedophiles do not suddenly become pedophiles”. One of the assistants reportedly burst into a coaches meeting and said “You won’t believe what I just saw”.
In addition, three university officials await trial on criminal charges for their handling of the Sandusky scandal.
A line in a court order of an insurance case involving Penn State alleges that in 1976, a child approached former football coach Joe Paterno and informed him of molestation by then-defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.
According to CNN, a friend confirmed that the victim relayed the story to him back in 1972, including the detail about specifically talking to Joe Paterno. Three other former assistant coaches allegedly saw inappropriate conduct between Sandusky and boys in the early and mid-1990s.
– Hired an athletics integrity officer and changed the reporting line of the University’s athletics compliance office to the director of ethics and compliance rather than the athletic director.
Judge Glazer had no evidence “that reports of these incidents ever went further up the chain of command at PSU”, he wrote. Penn State has continuously expressed its concern for victims of child abuse and its overarching commitment to not only ensuring our campuses are safe for children, but to also helping to build greater awareness of child sexual abuse and maltreatment.
The order was first reported by the Patriot-News of Harrisburg.
Penn State has not yet commented on Friday’s reports from CNN and NBC.
Late Thursday, word circulated that former Penn State coach Joe Paterno may have been made aware of an allegation of sexual misconduct by his assistant Jerry Sandusky way back in 1976. Penn State said it would “not speculate publicly or hypothesize about individual allegations”.
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Old wounds reopened Thursday in the Jerry Sandusky child abuse scandal as Penn State and its insurance company fought through the court system.
