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.

[Chiefnj2]

Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

I think it's intentional, but because he thinks the school can save him.

I think its a message to the school, "Hey guys we are in this together. I'm the monster that committed the acts. You are the monster that covered it up repeatedly. Save me or we are all going down."

[the Talking Can]

only hootie could turn a thread about pedophilia into a thread about himself....it's his superpower

[suzzer99]

Originally Posted by BryanBusby

Intentional or not, you make the call

You're talking about the "Peen State" undertitle right?

[redfan]

Matt Millen breaking down on ESPN right now. Damn, that was hard to watch. He was visibly shaken there for a moment.

[eazyb81]

Looks like Paterno may be done according to the latest from the NY Times. Good riddance you piece of sh#t.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/sp...ml?_r=2&src=tp

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Joe Paterno's tenure as coach of the Penn State football team will soon be over, perhaps within days or weeks, in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal that has implicated university officials, according to two people briefed on conversations among the university’s top officials.

[Saulbadguy]

[BigRock]

I don't know how JoePa isn't being charged with perjury like the other two guys. I can only assume that he didn't testify to the "Mike McQueary didn't tell me he saw Sandusky actually having sex with a boy" story he told in his public statement, and that's why he's not being charged.

But that would mean he said one thing to the grand jury and is saying something else in public. Which would be so monumentally stupid that it would defy all logic. And it'll force the DA to expose him as a liar if they plan on bringing the perjury charges against the other two.

[LiveSteam]

Originally Posted by BigRock

I don't know how JoePa isn't being charged with perjury like the other two guys. I can only assume that he didn't testify to the "Mike McQueary didn't tell me he saw Sandusky actually having sex with a boy" story he told in his public statement, and that's why he's not being charged.

But that would mean he said one thing to the grand jury and is saying something else in public. Which would be so monumentally stupid that it would defy all logic. And it'll force the DA to expose him as a liar if they plan on bringing the perjury charges against the other two.

I look for charges to eventually be filled against Joe, McQueary, & a janitor
Defiantly McQueary, & the janitor. They both watched a child be raped & did nothing. That is a felony in all 50 states.

[Chiefnj2]

Originally Posted by LiveSteam

I look for charges to eventually be filled against Joe, McQueary, & a janitor
Defiantly McQueary, & the janitor. They both watched a child be raped & did nothing. That is a felony in all 50 states.

The janitor is in a home suffering from dementia.

[LiveSteam]

Originally Posted by Chiefnj2

The janitor is in a home suffering from dementia.

I did not know that.

[VAChief]

Originally Posted by The Meat Lover's Pizza Face

ok well this is just my opinion

but I have a hard time believing every human being in America is a better person than Joe Paterno.

On this issue anyone who would have taken the 30 seconds to call Child Protective Services would definitely be acting as a "better person."

It is sad that this will tarnish his image, but there are certain acts or in this case lack of action that tend to taint the perception people have of you more than others. Perpetuating the access of a molester to kids on the campus where no one farts without your permission is one of those acts.

[Dartgod]

Originally Posted by LiveSteam

I did not know that.

Neither does the janitor.

[VAChief]

Originally Posted by Donger

Redundant.

[FAX]

Originally Posted by Chiefnj2

The janitor is in a home suffering from dementia.

I read that his family is suing Pine-Sol.

FAX

[Skyy God]

The plot thickens (alternate headline: DA got axed).

Another bizarre twist: Ray Gricar, the Centre County district attorney at the time of the 1998 investigation into Victim 6's allegations, has been missing since 2005 and was declared legally dead in July of this year. We may never know why Gricar did not press charges against Sandusky, despite Sandusky's admissions—per the grand jury report—that he had showered naked with the boy and hugged him.

The hard drive from Gricar's computer turned up on the banks of the Susquehanna River six months after his disappearance, according to this story Granim wrote three years ago, when she was still at the State College, Pa.-based Centre County Daily Times. Whatever was on that hard drive will forever be the subject of speculation now.

http://deadspin.com/5857440/alleged-...e-13-years-ago