Monday morning, court documents released said that former Penn State head coach Joe Paterno knew of the abuse Jerry Sandusky committed in 1976 and that he blew the complaints off in 2014 because he wanted to focus on the football season. Sandusky is in prison after being convicted of dozens of counts of sexual abuse of young boys.
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John Doe 150 says he told several adults about the incident, then sought out Paterno to tell him what occurred.
In the newly-revealed documents, a man identified only as John Doe 150 says he was attending a Penn State football camp in 1976 when Sandusky approached him in the shower and stuck a finger up his rectum.
“Specifically. Yes … I was shocked, disappointed, offended”, the man replied. Doe 150 recalled reportedly asking Paterno, “Is that all you’re going to do? You’re not going to do anything else?”
Paterno, who died of lung cancer in 2012 at 85 years old, then walked away, the victim testified. The testimony was part of documents unsealed today.
O’Dea, however, was a graduate assistant at the University of Virginia from 1988-90 and didn’t join Penn State’s staff until 1991.
“Although settlements have been reached, it also is important to reiterate that the alleged knowledge of former Penn State employees is not proven, and should not be treated as such”, Penn State President Eric Barron said in a statement on Tuesday.
Senior, while denying that Bradley had any prior knowledge of inappropriate activity by Sandusky, said by the time Bradley became aware of the 2001 rape allegation, “it had already been reported to the university administration years earlier”. Supporters called for a statue of him to be return to Beaver Stadium, and argued Paterno didn’t know about Sandusky’s crimes and was wrongly made the scapegoat for wider institutional failures.
Masella might want to retract those words following revelations that Paterno’s knowledge of Sandusky’s horrifying misconduct nearly certainly extended all the way back to 1976.
McQueary testified that sometime during the mid-2000s, Bradley told him that he “knew some things”, through people coming to him and disclosing that they witnessed similar situations with Sandusky arising in the early 1980s and the early 1990s.
Before his death, Paterno said he first learned of abuse allegations against Sandusky in 1998.
State over sex assault claims involving ex-assistant coach Jerry Sandusky says the payments of as much as $5.5 million appeared high to “extremely high”. But the one coach the man named said he wasn’t working there at the time.
“I think what they did to him is wrong”.
“Speculation also serves to drive a wedge within the Penn State community”. The statements were taken under oath, under penalty of perjury, and what they swear is that a wide variety of Penn State coaches and officials had indications that Sandusky was a child predator, only for the alleged victims to be silenced or ignored.
A lawyer who helped mediate claims against Penn State said last week the university was diligent in making sure the claims were backed up.
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“With this latest release of information, the total mishandling of the Sandusky investigation is highlighted once again”, he said.
