Former FBI director Judge Louis Freeh released his report investigating Penn State's invlovement in Jerry Sandusky's recent child sex scandal, saying that the "most saddening and sobering finding is the total disregard for the safety and welfare of Sandusky’s child victims by the most senior leaders at Penn State."
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"The most powerful men at Penn State failed to take any steps for 14 years to protect the children who Sandusky victimized," Freeh said in a statement on Thursday. "Messrs. [University Presdient Graham] Spanier, [University Vice President Gary] Schultz, [head football coach Joe] Paterno and [Athletic Director Tim] Curley never demonstrated, through actions or words, any concern for the safety and well-being of Sandusky’s victims until after Sandusky’s arrest."
Freeh's report, which included over 400 interviews of current and former Penn State employees, as well as "3.5 million emails," found that Paterno "failed to take any action" despite being made aware of an initial 1998 investigation into Sandusky's alleged child abuse.
"At the very least, Mr. Paterno could have alerted the entire football staff, in order to prevent Sandusky from bringing another child into the Lasch Building," he said in his release. "Messrs. Spanier, Schultz, Paterno and Curley also failed to alert the Board of Trustees about the 1998 investigation or take any further action against Mr. Sandusky."
Schultz is a 1967 graduate of Nazareth High School.
The full report accompanies this article as a PDF or the full report can be viewed here.
A press conference about the report will take place at 10 a.m. Thursday. Check back with Patch for more details.
Mr. Ball, you are quick to condem castration as being uncivilized but do not offer the punsishment. Child molesting is uncivilized. Disabling the specific body parts does serve to protect these victims. May not be popular but either is child molesting.
Here is the Sandusky Timeline from the Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/09/penn-state-scandal-timeline-jerry-sandusky_n_1084204.html I was wrong in saying that AG knew about the 2001 incident in 2001, It seems, that AG's office knew about 1998 (Victim 6) or 2001 (McQueary) at the time. It appears the AG opened file in 2009 and learned about these, and other incidents, as investigation progressed. Sorry about the mistake. Please do not call me stupid.
Her husband's company is nonunion in unionized Scranton and I have to think that Kathleen Kane is Independent of Union Leadership. In my view, the best person for the job is someone who independent of both parties and focused on prosecution and not career advancement (as was Patrick Murphy and as is Dave Freed).
I do, however, agree with you that Corbett was as guilty as the others for not doing his job as AG. He received over $500,000 campaign contributions from the Second Mile when he was running for governor. Hush money, perhaps? And now he's trying to come off as some savior when he fired Spanier and Paterno for not doing enough, fast enough. However, this Sandusky case sat on his desk for years, when he was AG. What Sandusky did was horrible, however, he went to trial and was convicted. He is in jail for life. There were four people, according to Freeh's report that didn't do enough. Spanier and Paterno were fired. Schultz and Curley are awaiting trial, and will also, most likely, go to jail. The victims will sue the university are will receive millions of dollars. How many different ways does the public want to punish this university and how many different ways is the university suppose to say it's sorry?
http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/13690070-418/penn-st-donations-second-highest-in-school-history.html no biggie, no one was murdered like at other universities, some kids got extra loving and did not report it for decades
But seriously folks, there is a 24-hour guard at the statue to protect it? Where is the money for that coming from? That statue has GOT to go. All of Joe Pa's good deeds have been forever overshadowed by his lack of integrity and action when it was needed most.
Corbett's office resolved the problems and delays, not caused them. Soon after the 2009 complaint entered the state system, his office subpoenaed records from PSU in January 2010. They methodically investigated using the grand jury, searching for and accumulating reports from multiple victims that were previous unknown. If they had relied on just one complaint, they prosecution wopuld have failed. Indeed, Sandusky was still found not guilty with regards to the McCreay shower observation case. Corbetts office was the only prosecution that was succesful against Sandusky.