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.

[Brock]

Originally Posted by Dave Lane

I don't disagree. Its the fact that here a guy is vilified and probably going to do years and years in prison if not life and priests walk totally free. Its a bad double standard. I'd like all of them to get time in the big house religious or not. Not an anti religion rant as much as it is all these guys are frikken scumbags and deserve prison. Disagree?

Go away, Dave.

[BoneKrusher]

does this story gives a whole new meaning to the term Happy Valley?

[Otter]

Originally Posted by Brock

Go away, Dave.

Thank you

[Otter]

Originally Posted by vailpass

Shut the hell up and crawl into DC Loon. Your constant attempts at hijacking in order to vent your obsession is old and tired.

Another 'thank you' in order.

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by sedated

I’m not sure anyone here could call the cops on their best friend of 30+ years. The sickening nature of what was going on probably made it LESS likely, as a call to the cops would have destroyed the guy’s life and it would all be based on a he-said-she-said witness account. JoePa probably thought he was doing the right thing by taking it up a level, perhaps they would do an investigation before making things public – you can’t go throwing around “child molester” accusations without doing a bit of digging first. I'm not saying what he did was right, just that it would be a tough spot to be in.

Regardless if any of what I just said is true, JoePa and everyone else will likely be out soon – public outcry for this sort of thing will bring down anyone even perceived to be involved in the mess.

I was making this argument this morning until I thought about what I would do. I would go to the police and that's precisely what should have happened.

[loochy]

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

[OnTheWarpath15]

Originally Posted by sedated

I’m not sure anyone here could call the cops on their best friend of 30+ years.

There's not a person on the planet I wouldn't call the cops on if I found they were molesting little kids.

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58

There's not a person on the planet I wouldn't call the cops on if I found they were molesting little kids.

Agreed...unless it was my kids.

[Chiefnj2]

"Fall 2000: A janitor sees Mr. Sandusky in the shower at the PSU football complex with Victim 8. The boy was pinned against the wall while Mr. Sandusky performed a sex act on him. The janitor tells other janitorial staff and his boss. His supervisor tells him how to make an official report. Such a report is never made; there is discussion among janitorial staff of concern about their jobs if they report the incident.

March 1, 2002: A Penn State football graduate assistant, whose name is not in the presentment but who since has been identified as Mike McQueary, now the team's wide receiver coach and recruiting coordinator, witnesses Mr. Sandusky having sex with Victim 2 in the shower at the Lasch Football Building."

How does someone witness a child being molested and not immediately stop it, call the police, yell out "WTF" or something? It's like "Oh, Sandusky is in the shower again. Put out the Out of Order/Slippery Floor Sign".

Everyone of importance at PSU knew about it in 2002. Paterno should be arrested.

[RedNFeisty]

Originally Posted by Chiefnj2

"Fall 2000: A janitor sees Mr. Sandusky in the shower at the PSU football complex with Victim 8. The boy was pinned against the wall while Mr. Sandusky performed a sex act on him. The janitor tells other janitorial staff and his boss. His supervisor tells him how to make an official report. Such a report is never made; there is discussion among janitorial staff of concern about their jobs if they report the incident.

March 1, 2002: A Penn State football graduate assistant, whose name is not in the presentment but who since has been identified as Mike McQueary, now the team's wide receiver coach and recruiting coordinator, witnesses Mr. Sandusky having sex with Victim 2 in the shower at the Lasch Football Building."

How does someone witness a child being molested and not immediately stop it, call the police, yell out "WTF" or something? It's like "Oh, Sandusky is in the shower again. Put out the Out of Order/Slippery Floor Sign".

Everyone of importance at PSU knew about it in 2002. Paterno should be arrested.

Agreed, Paterno should be arrested for enabling or aiding and abetting. Or whatever legal reason can be found.

Don't think for a second, I wouldn't turn in my own Father or any life long friend, if I caught or even strongly suspected such behavior.


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[Reaper16]

Oh goodness: http://www.amazon.com/Touched-Jerry-.../dp/1582613575

[loochy]

Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58

There's not a person on the planet I wouldn't call the cops on if I found they were molesting little kids.

Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

Agreed...unless it was my kids.

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

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by eazyb81

Wow I had no idea the GA, Mike McQueary, was the red head assistant that has been on Penn State's coaching staff for years. Absolutely sickening that he saw Sandusky assault a little boy and 1) continued to allow the guy around the program, and 2) continued to work at PSU despite the fact they turned a blind eye to a molester.

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?

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by loochy

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

No. He would kill them without police involvement.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58

There's not a person on the planet I wouldn't call the cops on if I found they were molesting little kids.

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.