Later Friday, NBC News reported that as many as six former assistant coaches at Penn State witnessed “inappropriate behavior” between Sandusky and boys, going back as far as the 1970s.
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The document also cites two other incidents, in 1987 and 1988, in which unnamed other assistant coaches saw Sandusky having inappropriate contact with boys and told Paterno. A boy reportedly told him in 1976 about alleged abuse by Sandusky, years before the former assistant coach’s arrest in 2011, according to a Philadelphia court filing this week.
Paterno was sacked in 2011 shortly after Sandusky was arrested and charged with 52 counts of sexual abuse against young boys.
Glazer wrote that when Sandusky abused children at his home or at events held by the childrens charity he founded, he was still a PSU assistant coach and professor, and clothed in the glory associated with those titles, particularly in the eyes of impressionable children.
He and his lawyers were in court Thursday in an attempt to secure a re-trial.
A report from former Federal Bureau of Investigation director Louis Freeh, released in July 2012, said that Paterno failed to send allegations of the abuse higher up the chain of command. Most of Sandusky’s victims who came forward already have agreed to a confidential settlement with Penn State.
A major subject of the hearing later this month will be a statement in the closing argument by prosecutor Joe McGettigan that referred to “others unknown to us, to others presently known to God but not to us”. The two went to the ground in a struggle, with Sandusky coming out victorious and raping the man.
Anonymous sources close to legal proceedings about the university insurance claims told NBC News one of the assistant coaches allegedly witnessed “an incident” in the late 1970s.
The 1976 claim emerged from an lawsuit between Penn State and one of its insurers, Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association Insurance, which has resisted covering the university’s Sandusky-related payouts.
She condemned “this endless process of character assassination by accusation”.
“I am asking – No, I am pleading with you”, Lubrano said to trustee Chair Keith Masser, “to direct university counsel to release all the details related to this stale and highly suspect allegation so that all stakeholders, but most importantly so, we, the trustees of this university can evaluate and understand the context surrounding this claim”.
Also, the victim who made the allegation against Paterno has apparently reached a confidential settlement with Penn State. In order to assess that issue under the terms of the Penn State-PMA contract, Judge Glazer must consider whether any Penn State officers, trustees or shareholders-a category of Penn State officials that does not include Paterno-knew of Sandusky’s conduct.
One man claimed in a sealed court deposition he complained to Paterno about Sandusky molesting him in 1976, but the coach did nothing about it.
The university says in a statement issued Friday a claim attributed to an insurance company in a coverage dispute with it amounts to allegations that aren’t established facts.
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“I won’t go there now, but my feeling is there’s a board responsibility here, too”, Oldsey said. Sandusky is seeking a new trial.
