Penn St ex-coach, others charged in child sex case

[Stewie]

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — A former defensive coordinator who was integral for decades to Penn State's success in football was accused Saturday of sexually abusing eight boys, and the school's athletic director and an administrator were charged with perjury and failing to report what they knew about the allegations in a case that prosecutor said uncovered a years-long trail of a predator and those who protected him.


Former coach Jerry Sandusky, 67, of State College, was arrested Saturday and released on $100,000 bail after being arraigned on 40 criminal counts, the state attorney general's office said. Athletic director Tim Curley, 57, and Penn State vice president for finance and business Gary Schultz, 62, both of Boalsburg, were expected to turn themselves in Monday in Harrisburg. Schultz's position includes oversight of the university's police department.


Longtime head coach Joe Paterno, who has more victories than any coach in the history of Division I football, was not charged, authorities said, and the grand jury report did not appear to implicate him in wrongdoing.


When Paterno first learned of one report of abuse he immediately reported it to Curley, prosecutors said. Sandusky was no longer coaching at the time and it's not clear whether Paterno followed up with Curley.


Closely identified with the school's reputation as a defensive powerhouse and a program that produced top-quality linebackers, Sandusky retired in 1999 but continued to work with at-risk children through the nonprofit Second Mile organization he founded in 1977. He was charged with multiple counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, corruption of minors, endangering the welfare of a child, indecent assault and unlawful contact with a minor, as well as single counts of aggravated indecent assault and attempted indecent assault. A preliminary hearing for Sandusky is scheduled for Wednesday, but his lawyer told reporters it would likely be delayed.


"He's shaky, as you can expect," defense attorney Joe Amendola told WJAC-TV outside the arraignment hearing. "Being 67 years old, never having faced criminal charges in his life, and having the distinguished career that he's had, these are very serious allegations."


Amendola said Sandusky has been aware of the allegations for about three years and has maintained his innocence.


The allegations range from sexual touching to oral and anal sex, and victims testified they were in their early teens when some of the abuse occurred.


Attorney General Linda Kelly called Sandusky "a sexual predator who used his position within the university and community to repeatedly prey on young boys."


The grand jury said eight boys who were targets of sexual advances or assaults by Sandusky from 1994 to 2009. None were named, and in at least one case, the jury said the child's identity remains unknown to authorities.


One accuser, now 27, testified that Sandusky initiated contact with a "soap battle" in the shower that led to multiple instances of involuntary sexual intercourse and indecent assault at Sandusky's hands, the grand jury report said.


Victim 4, as he was identified in the jury report, said he traveled to charity functions and Penn State games with Sandusky, even being listed as a member of Sandusky's family's party for the 1998 Outback Bowl and 1999 Alamo Bowl.


"Sandusky did threaten to send him home from the Alamo Bowl in Texas when Victim 4 resisted his advances," the report said, and Sandusky gave him clothes, shoes, a snowboard, golf clubs, hockey gear and football jerseys.


"Sandusky even guaranteed Victim 4 that he could be a walk-on player at Penn State," and the boy appeared with Sandusky in a photo in Sports Illustrated, the jury said. He testified that Sandusky once gave him $50 to buy marijuana, drove him to purchase it, and then drove him home as the boy smoked the drug, according to the report.


"This was when Victim 4 was trying to distance himself from Sandusky because he wanted no more sexual contact with him," the jurors said.
Another child, Victim 8, as jurors named him, is known only as a boy, about 11 to 13, who was seen pinned against a wall, by a janitor who observed Sandusky performing oral sex on him in fall 2000, the jury said.
No one answered a knock at the door Saturday at Sandusky's modest, two-story brick home at the end of a dead-end road in State College.


As stunning as the charges were the names implicated at a school where the football program is known for its consistency as much as its success — a big change this year was the removal of white trim from players' uniforms.


The report accuses Curley and Schultz of knowing some details of accusations of sex abuse against Sandusky but failing to tell authorities what they knew.


"It is also a case about high-ranking university officials who allegedly failed to report the sexual assault of a young boy after the information was brought to their attention, and later made false statements to a grand jury," Kelly said.


Lawyers for both men issued statements saying they were innocent of all charges.


Prosecutors said all of the young men first encountered Sandusky through Second Mile.


The first to come to light was a boy who met Sandusky when he was 11 or 12, the grand jury said. The boy received expensive gifts and trips to sports events from Sandusky, and physical contact began during his overnight stays at Sandusky's home, jurors said. Eventually, the boy's mother reported the allegations of sexual assault to his high school, and Sandusky was banned from the child's school district in Clinton County in 2009. That triggered the state investigation that culminated in charges Saturday.


The report alleges much earlier instances of abuse, and efforts by some who knew of it to stop it, to no avail.


Kelly said that in 2002, a graduate assistant saw Sandusky sexually assault a naked boy, estimated to be about 10 years old, in the locker room of the Lasch Football Building on campus. The grad student and his father reported what he saw to Paterno, who immediately told Curley, prosecutors said.


Curley and Schultz met with the graduate assistant about a week and a half later, Kelly said. Nothing happened.


"Despite a powerful eyewitness statement about the sexual assault of a child, this incident was not reported to any law enforcement or child protective agency, as required by Pennsylvania law," Kelly said.


There's no indication that anyone at school attempted to find the boy, or follow up with the witness, she said.


Curley denied that the assistant had reported anything of a sexual nature, calling it "merely 'horsing around,'" the 23-page grand jury report said.
But the jury said Curley was lying, Kelly said, adding that it also deemed portions of Schultz's testimony not to be credible.


Curley testified that he barred Sandusky from bringing children onto campus and that he advised Penn State president Graham Spanier of the matter.


Schultz told the jurors he also knew of a 1998 investigation involving sexually inappropriate behavior by Sandusky with a boy in the showers the football team used. But despite his job overseeing campus police, he never reported the 2002 allegations to any authorities, "never sought or received a police report on the 1998 incident and never attempted to learn the identity of the child in the show in 2002," the jurors wrote.


"No one from the university did so."


Spanier released a statement calling the allegations against Sandusky "troubling" and adding Curley and Schultz had his unconditional support.
He predicted they will be exonerated.


"I have known and worked daily with Tim and Gary for more than 16 years," he said. "I have complete confidence in how they handled the allegations about a former university employee."


Sandusky, once considered a potential successor to Paterno, drew up the defenses for the Nittany Lions' national-title teams in 1982 and 1986. The team is enjoying another successful run this season; at 8-1, Penn State is ranked No. 16 in the AP Top 25 and is the last undefeated squad in Big Ten play. The Nittany Lions were off Saturday.

[vailpass]

Seems like the internal football community would have circled up on this child predator and tore the monster to shreds, banished him from the pack, the minute they knew what a sick and twisted freak he was.
Hard to believ Joepa knowingly condoned the victimization of children.

[vailpass]

Here's a pic of the guy running calisthenics at a recent practice. You'd think they would have known something was up, guy just doesn't look right.

[Dave Lane]

Originally Posted by loochy

I didn't know that Penn State was a catholic school. I thought it was a state school

Stop talking religion!!

[Titty Meat]

I only care about this if it gives Nebraska the advantage this weekend.

[Chief Henry]

All of this is unreal....can't believe the powers to be at Penn State kept this under wraps for so long. I wonder how many media types in the Happy Valley area knew about this but squelched it because they didn't want to be the one to bring down the Joe Pa era.

This is just unreal.

[LiveSteam]

[QUOTE=Bo's Pelini;8089769]I only care about this if it gives Nebraska the advantage this weekend.[/QUOTE

Nubs have a coaching staff that needs fired. For sweeping they're sucking under the rug.

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by loochy

wait..what? You'd protect the people that molested your kids?

Certainly..that what you should take from my comment. /rolleyes

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by The Meat Lover's Pizza Face

Disagree.

If I had a good job and saw some sick **** doing something...and then reported it to my superiors...and the superiors did nothing about it...I'd still be disgusted but I wouldn't necessarily walk out on my job. Especially if it was a good paying job.

If anything, McQueary is one of the good guys in this entire mess. He did more than anyone...it's not his fault his BOSSES squashed the entire thing. He told his dad, and then JOE PATERNO...after that, it's not really his call to do anything else.

What was he going to do? Call the police and turn it into a G.A. vs. Legend "he says, she says" battle?

He should have called the police immediately.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by Bo's Pelini

I only care about this if it gives Nebraska the advantage this weekend.

Penn State's assistant coach said it probably would give NU an advantage but it turns out he was kidding.

[Stewie]

Originally Posted by LiveSteam

Nubs have a coaching staff that needs fired. For sweeping they're sucking under the rug.

I read on Twitter that a sports writer (Harrisburg or State College) is calling for fans to boycott the Nebraska game unless Paterno is fired.

[VAChief]

Originally Posted by The Meat Lover's Pizza Face

Very true.

But my dad always told me...believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear (or something like that)...

Actually, I don't think that's how the saying went at all...of course something SHOULD have been done...but there is a reason why there have been no charges on JoePa yet...they don't have anything on him. He technically did exactly what he was supposed to do.

Now morally speaking? Perhaps not.

Perhaps not? Are you kidding? If that was your child would you think "well he technically did what he was supposed to do." I'm not convinced he isn't legally negligent as well. Reporting to your superior in most states does not negate your professional responsibilities IF you know that the incident was not reported to the authorities.

It appears he not only was aware of these atrocities, but allowed the scumbag to continue to have access to kids at HIS facilities. I had no ill will whatsoever toward Paterno prior to this, in fact I respected his supposed staunch old school ways. If his GA told him your buddy is ass raping a kid in your locker room, friend or not you pick up the phone and call the police, just shortly before you beat the shit out your friend for ruining the reputation of your program, likely for ages.

[Otter]

Originally Posted by Dave Lane

Stop talking religion!!

He was making fun of you idiot.

Let's take a quick look back a week on top of the bile you managed to inject into this thread:

Thread about judge beating his daughter
Post #91

Post where poster jokingly saying God helped Chiefs win the Chargers game
Post #3

That's this week out of almost 11 years you douche bag. I think I speak for most of us when I say 'shut the **** up already you broken record'. I'll ignore you from now on for both our sake.

[VAChief]

Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

He should have called the police immediately.

Absolutely, this isn't a judgement call situation where there might have been a misunderstanding. A GA sees a grown man humping a 10 year old is as clear cut case of nuthooks as it gets.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by VAChief

Absolutely, this isn't a judgement call situation where there might have been a misunderstanding. A GA sees a grown man humping a 10 year old is as clear cut case of nuthooks as it gets.

Yes. Though career suicide is something easier said than done.

[OnTheWarpath15]

Originally Posted by vailpass

Yes. Though career suicide is something easier said than done.

I'll take the risk of career suicide every time over a lifetime of guilt due to not reporting something like this.

How many kids were victims because no one spoke up or went to police?