A separate victim is also claiming Paterno knew as far back as 1971.
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“The university has no records from the time to help evaluate the claims”, the statement said.
But why use the word “alleged”?
Yes. Those 45 counts relate to 10 boys, and incidents that occurred between September 1995 and the summer of 2009.
So what supposedly happened in 1976, 1987 and 1988?
Scott Paterno wrote Friday morning on Twitter that the claim, which appeared Thursday in a court order in a case involving Penn State and an insurance company, is “bunk” and that media reports of it represent “a new low in irresponsibility”.
But the PSU v. PMA case is a civil suit about civil suits.
Former Penn State president Graham B. Spanier and two other administrators are awaiting trial on charges that they ignored or concealed signs that Sandusky was molesting boys.
It’s unclear what evidence the insurance company had in making these claims.
In his order Wednesday, he said that PMA did have to pay some claims.
The school fired Paterno and removed his statue from the front of its football stadium – a decision that still rankles many fans and alumni – but his name adorns a university library, and the NCAA previous year restored 111 of his wins vacated after Sandusky’s 2012 conviction.
After questions from his mother and her husband, the State College, Pa., native – in a story CNN corroborated with a childhood friend and a Pennsylvania state trooper, to whom the alleged victim recounted the incidents – wound up on the phone with two people from Penn State.
“With what”, he said, “an allegation from an 11-year-old 40 years ago?”
The document reads like the rider page for a vehicle insurance policy, with terms and exclusions and maximums. Sandusky also maintained his innocence throughout the trial.
“The university is facing and has faced a number of litigation matters and claims related to the Sandusky events”.
Glazer did agree with the university that an expected or intended injury exclusion did not bar coverage before 1998. A 2015 financial audit of the university showed the cost of the settlement had ballooned to almost $93 million.
Joe Paterno was never charged with any crime, and his family is pursuing a lawsuit against the NCAA for commercial disparagement, arguing the associations since-abolished consent decree with Penn State over the Sandusky scandal damaged their commercial interests and value. The documents point not only to the 1976 claim, but also to three other reported incidents tied to the late 1980s.
A spokesperson for Penn State told NBC News that it was aware of the allegations, “but the legal case and confidentiality commitments that govern our settlement agreements preclude us from discussing these matters at all”.
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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.
