The court documents say that part of the testimony of another former Penn State assistant, Mike McQueary, implies that Bradley, now the defensive coordinator at UCLA, and Schiano, now the defensive coordinator at Ohio State, both were aware of incidents of children being abused by Sandusky.
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An unknown man testified in 2014 that he confronted Paterno in 1976, claiming that Jerry Sandusky had touched and penetrated him as he showered at a Penn State football camp.
The documents include allegations by multiple people reporting abuse by Sandusky to Paterno or other members of the football staff from the 1970s and 80s.
“Specifically, yes”, the man replied. I was insulted… I said, is that all you’re going to do? “I said, ‘Is that all you’re going to do?”‘
“John Doe 75” testified that assistant coach Joe Sarra witnessed Sandusky putting his hand down a 13-year old boy’s shorts and he immediately left the room and closed the door behind him.
Sandusky was convicted in 2012 and was sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in prison, The Washington Post reported.
The revelation is the latest in the scandal that has greatly tarnished the legacy of Paterno, whose time at the helm of the Nittany Lions men’s football program made him a dominant fixture in Pennsylvania, and well-known nationally. He died on January 22, 2012 at age 85. The estate is claiming that the NCAA defamed the once-legendary coach by placing blame on Paterno and imposing sanctions on Penn State. In a separate letter, an attorney hired by PMA to review Penn State’s settlement payments deemed the amount the university paid to the victims to be “high and in some cases extremely high”. McQueary also claimed in a deposition released Tuesday that assistant coaches Bradley and Greg Schiano also had known about Sandusky’s history of abusing children.
When McQueary told Bradley, another longtime Penn State assistant to Paterno, what he saw Sandusky doing to a boy in a shower, McQueary said, Bradley was “not shocked”. “Most significantly, there is extensive evidence that stands in stark contrast to this claim”, said Sollers.
Bradley, according to McQueary, did not seem surprised and said he had heard of some things involving Sandusky with young boys in the shower.
McQueary said Bradley told him he’d been approached by someone in the ’80s who saw Sandusky “doing something to a boy”.
According to McQueary’s testimony, Bradley then said another assistant had come to him in the early 1990s with a similar situation.
Schiano, now the defensive coordinator at Ohio State, on Tuesday denied having any such knowledge. We had the chat and he told me everything that happened. He was later the head coach at Rutgers and for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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Schiano responded that he “never saw any abuse, nor had reason to suspect any abuse during my tenure at Penn State”.
