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Stewie · 11-05-2011, 12:43 PM

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.

chiefzilla1501 · 11-07-2011, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by BryanBusby

No, I think we clearly understand. Even "OH EM GEE SHADY AND CROOKED" college programs will have the ability to understand the difference between reporting NCAA violations and violations that are sick and against federal laws.

Unless you're trying to say that scandals like this go on in many college programs.

By keeping quiet about it outside of the program, he's pretty much ****ed as he'll be known as the dude that kept quiet about child rape. Yeah, definitely a career booster there.

You don't think there are coaches, star players, starters, etc... who get caught up in shady shit. Maybe assault. Maybe rape. Etc...? And knowing what we know about how college programs handle problems, do you think their first instinct is to go straight to the authorities? Or do you think they'll do everything they can to cover shit up and do everything they can to keep the story from going public?

Frazod · 11-07-2011, 08:53 PM

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**Dartgod** · 11-07-2011, 08:56 PM

Sure glad Hootie showed up to be the voice of reason.

Pitt Gorilla · 11-07-2011, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by The Meat Lover's Pizza Face

I understand child molestation is perhaps THE WORST crime one can commit...

but it was never Joe Paterno's job to catch a predator...

I think that patteau might agree with you (see: his take on clergy not reporting molestation to police), but few others will.

Hootie · 11-07-2011, 08:57 PM

I just have a hard time believing that all of these people (JoePa, G.A., AD, President) are all indecent people...and stood by knowingly while a man had sex with many children.

That's my point.

I'm all for burning the monster at the stake...just not everyone who knew the freaking guy.

**Dartgod** · 11-07-2011, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by frazod

This latest pathetic cry for attention brought to you by Pootie!

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i'm an expert on everything

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Hootie · 11-07-2011, 08:58 PM

but in today's social media world all we want is a BIG story...and Joe Paterno is a BIG story...so so be it

Hootie · 11-07-2011, 08:59 PM

Dart and Fraz...

I'll post my opinion whenever and wherever I want to. You two miserable ****s will never get in the way of that, and the more you post about your angst towards me the more I'll post, that's just how I work.

So you two fat ****s can choke on a big fat polish with extra kraut.

**Dartgod** · 11-07-2011, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by The Meat Lover's Pizza Face

Dart and Fraz...

I'll post my opinion whenever and wherever I want to. You two miserable ****s will never get in the way of that, and the more you post about your angst towards me the more I'll post, that's just how I work.

So you two fat ****s can choke on a big fat polish with extra kraut.

Who said you couldn't post your worthless opinions here?

Not me.

Post away all you want.

It makes great entertainment.

And it proves to everyone here what a boob you are.

I can't stand sauerkraut, but bring on the polish!

Frazod · 11-07-2011, 09:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Meat Lover's Pizza Face

Dart and Fraz...

I'll post my opinion whenever and wherever I want to. You two miserable ****s will never get in the way of that, and the more you post about your angst towards me the more I'll post, that's just how I work.

So you two fat ****s can choke on a big fat polish with extra kraut.

i understand you moved

and have no friends

because everybody thinks you're a dumb**** loudmouth yankee jerk

with a pizza face

who is desperate to be the center of attention

and none of the drunk losers you used to hang out with text you anymore

no more lols with your posse of tards

out of sight

out of mind

so you come here

to get the attention you don't rate in real life

its okay pootie

we've learned to live with it

**Donger** · 11-07-2011, 09:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Meat Lover's Pizza Face

Dart and Fraz...

I'll post my opinion whenever and wherever I want to. You two miserable ****s will never get in the way of that, and the more you post about your angst towards me the more I'll post, that's just how I work.

So you two fat ****s can choke on a big fat polish with extra kraut.

So, Hootie, say one day you actually procreate (God forbid) and one day a man sees your 10 year old son being involuntarily anally-violated in a shower. He says nothing to you, because "that's not his job."

Would you still agree with your assertion above?

chiefzilla1501 · 11-07-2011, 09:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Meat Lover's Pizza Face

I just have a hard time believing that all of these people (JoePa, G.A., AD, President) are all indecent people...and stood by knowingly while a man had sex with many children.

That's my point.

I'm all for burning the monster at the stake...just not everyone who knew the freaking guy.

The minute there is any suspiscion, don't you start asking him "hey, Jerry, why the **** are you bringing that kid on the field after what we accused you of?" Isn't that when you start banning him from your campus? Isn't that when you step in?

A year ago, I would have told you that Tressel was a pretty classy coach. Then you learn he will do whatever it takes to protect the reputation of the program. So yes, I absolutely believe that these guys would sweep this under the rug because they know it would tarnish the Penn State name. It's pretty amazing it's been kept quiet for 10 years.

Hootie · 11-07-2011, 09:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Donger

So, Hootie, say one day you actually procreate (God forbid) and one day a man sees your 10 year old son being involuntarily anally-violated in a shower. He says nothing to you, because "that's not his job."

Would you still agree with your assertion above?

I don't answer Donger dead end questions...

pertaining to this thread, the perp was preying on boys from "broken" homes that, from what I understand, usually didn't have present fathers.

So therefore this is an off topic question.

Hootie · 11-07-2011, 09:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frazod

who is desperate to be the center of attention

please go find posts from me over the past 2 months that scream "I need attention"

I read a lot more threads and only post when I have an opinion...and I'd say 95% of my posts since I moved were baseball playoff related, or Chiefs related.

So good try, miserable fat ****.

**Donger** · 11-07-2011, 09:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Meat Lover's Pizza Face

I don't answer Donger dead end questions...

pertaining to this thread, the perp was preying on boys from "broken" homes that, from what I understand, usually didn't have present fathers.

So therefore this is an off topic question.

No, it really isn't. You just said that it was "never Joe Paterno's job to catch a predator..."

So, would you feel differently if it were your son being raped?

11-05-2011, 12:43 PM
Stewie MVP Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: West of the Equator Casino cash: $-1860099	Penn St ex-coach, others charged in child sex case 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.
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11-07-2011, 08:57 PM	#230
Hootie Banned Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Dallas, Texas Casino cash: $10004900	I just have a hard time believing that all of these people (JoePa, G.A., AD, President) are all indecent people...and stood by knowingly while a man had sex with many children. That's my point. I'm all for burning the monster at the stake...just not everyone who knew the freaking guy.
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11-07-2011, 08:58 PM	#232
Hootie Banned Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Dallas, Texas Casino cash: $10004900	but in today's social media world all we want is a BIG story...and Joe Paterno is a BIG story...so so be it
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11-07-2011, 08:59 PM	#233
Hootie Banned Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Dallas, Texas Casino cash: $10004900	Dart and Fraz... I'll post my opinion whenever and wherever I want to. You two miserable **s will never get in the way of that, and the more you post about your angst towards me the more I'll post, that's just how I work. So you two fat **s can choke on a big fat polish with extra kraut.
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