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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.

Al Bundy · 11-07-2011, 08:13 AM

Not that it means anything but I have seen over 100 retweets from people stating they are dropping their season tickets in football next year. I don't know if they meant if JoePa was or wasn't fired though.

Al Bundy · 11-07-2011, 08:17 AM

IMO, if JoePa was told by a GA that the GA saw Sandusky in the shower with that boy then JoePa should have gone to the police, not the campus pigs, but the actual police himself.

LiveSteam · 11-07-2011, 08:31 AM

After I read this last night I didnt think Joe could be involved. But the more I read,& the more post you guys put up . The more I realize that having the most wins ever by 1 coach Was & is more important to Joe Pa than the well being of children. No way will I ever believe Joe didnt know about this bundle of sticks baby raper.

COchief · 11-07-2011, 08:54 AM

Maybe the sickest thing about this is after Joe and the rest of the higher ups were told about this is they continued to see this sick phugg with other young boys for a decade knowing full well what was going down and not doing anything about it. All should be fired immediately regardless of any legacy BS.

LiveSteam · 11-07-2011, 09:09 AM

I feel for Penn-ST fan. They didnt deserve this. This is a black eye on collage football & those that hate football & sports, will chalk this one up as more prof that winning at all cost is the norm in today's athletics.

eazyb81 · 11-07-2011, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by COchief

Maybe the sickest thing about this is after Joe and the rest of the higher ups were told about this is they continued to see this sick phugg with other young boys for a decade knowing full well what was going down and not doing anything about it. All should be fired immediately regardless of any legacy BS.

Yep. This is why JoePa's attempt at plausible deniability doesn't pass the smell test.

If the GA came to him with this part of the info, a normal person would obviously ask for more details. Even if we suspend reality and assume the GA only told Paterno that he saw some weird stuff involving Sandusky, JoePa still saw him around the program for years and did not do anything or ask any questions.

lcarus · 11-07-2011, 09:15 AM

Penn State's new fight song.

FloridaMan88 · 11-07-2011, 09:16 AM

It would probably be best for everyone if Joe Pa dropped dead right about now.

Garcia Bronco · 11-07-2011, 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by FAX

It kind of came out of nowhere.

Superfluous and unnecessary, too.

FAX

Your use of the word unnecessary was unnecessary.

Otter · 11-07-2011, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by COchief

Maybe the sickest thing about this is after Joe and the rest of the higher ups were told about this is they continued to see this sick phugg with other young boys for a decade knowing full well what was going down and not doing anything about it. All should be fired immediately regardless of any legacy BS.

I'd like to learn more on this guys background as in how well he was connected. Was Daddy on the board? Uncle Jack contribute $500k to the new library and what not.

It's pretty hard to believe an organization like Penn State would try to cover this up. If you were to pick a crime to sweep under the rug it's pretty tough to come up with something much more disgraceful and heinous than what this man is being accused.

If even half of how deep the cover up is being said to go at his point is true there's gonna be a big shake up from top down Penn State.

mcaj22 · 11-07-2011, 09:28 AM

you should see campus today what a mess

everyone is so depressed it's like a black cloud just came over happy valley, people are legitimately bummed

my facebook feed a lot of penn state alumni are extremely disappointed in this. this is going go a long way than just the football program

jspchief · 11-07-2011, 09:34 AM

Nice that Sandusky had a youth at risk program that he used as a supply line. This sick **** should save taxpayer money and off himself.

LiveSteam · 11-07-2011, 09:35 AM

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Originally Posted by mcaj22

you should see campus today what a mess

everyone is so depressed it's like a black cloud just came over happy valley, people are legitimately bummed

my facebook feed a lot of penn state alumni are extremely disappointed in this. this is going go a long way than just the football program

Like I said I feel for Penn-ST fan. I just cant think of anything more grotesque that could be leveled at a University. Genocide

lcarus · 11-07-2011, 09:38 AM

So Paterno knew about this in some way? I was reading that he didn't know..but I don't really don't know what to believe at this point.

jspchief · 11-07-2011, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by lcarus

So Paterno knew about this in some way? I was reading that he didn't know..but I don't really don't know what to believe at this point.

The graduate assistant that saw Sandusky in the act with a child went straight to Paterno. Paterno took it straight to the university officials.

The only thing in dispute is the degree of detail that Paterno knew.

11-05-2011, 12:43 PM
Stewie MVP Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: West of the Equator Casino cash: $-1840099	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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Al Bundy Damnit Peg Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Overland Park Casino cash: $3361831	Not that it means anything but I have seen over 100 retweets from people stating they are dropping their season tickets in football next year. I don't know if they meant if JoePa was or wasn't fired though.
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11-07-2011, 08:17 AM	#47
Al Bundy Damnit Peg Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Overland Park Casino cash: $3361831	IMO, if JoePa was told by a GA that the GA saw Sandusky in the shower with that boy then JoePa should have gone to the police, not the campus pigs, but the actual police himself.
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LiveSteam The Constitutional Choo choo Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: homeof43conferencetitles Casino cash: $-1704568	After I read this last night I didnt think Joe could be involved. But the more I read,& the more post you guys put up . The more I realize that having the most wins ever by 1 coach Was & is more important to Joe Pa than the well being of children. No way will I ever believe Joe didnt know about this bundle of sticks baby raper. __________________ Progressivism.. The Politically Correct way of saying "I'm a Communist slash Nazi" depending on what the issue of the day is?
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COchief Blame it on the Henne Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Donk-town Casino cash: $6283231	Maybe the sickest thing about this is after Joe and the rest of the higher ups were told about this is they continued to see this sick phugg with other young boys for a decade knowing full well what was going down and not doing anything about it. All should be fired immediately regardless of any legacy BS.
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LiveSteam The Constitutional Choo choo Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: homeof43conferencetitles Casino cash: $-1704568	I feel for Penn-ST fan. They didnt deserve this. This is a black eye on collage football & those that hate football & sports, will chalk this one up as more prof that winning at all cost is the norm in today's athletics. __________________ Progressivism.. The Politically Correct way of saying "I'm a Communist slash Nazi" depending on what the issue of the day is?
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11-07-2011, 09:15 AM	#52
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11-07-2011, 09:28 AM	#56
mcaj22 MVP Join Date: Feb 2010 Casino cash: $10014454	you should see campus today what a mess everyone is so depressed it's like a black cloud just came over happy valley, people are legitimately bummed my facebook feed a lot of penn state alumni are extremely disappointed in this. this is going go a long way than just the football program
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jspchief BAMF Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Your Face Casino cash: $9998710	Nice that Sandusky had a youth at risk program that he used as a supply line. This sick **** should save taxpayer money and off himself. __________________ Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.
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11-07-2011, 09:38 AM	#59
lcarus Everybody Lies. Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: 22 Acacia Avenue Casino cash: $-1969887	So Paterno knew about this in some way? I was reading that he didn't know..but I don't really don't know what to believe at this point.
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