Three ex-Penn State officials get jail in Sandusky child sex abuse coverup

[joseephuss]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pennsylvania-sandusky-idUSKBN18T1BC


Three ex-Penn State officials get jail in Sandusky child sex abuse coverup



Three former Pennsylvania State University officials were sentenced to jail on Friday for covering up ex-coach Jerry Sandusky's sexual predations and effectively letting him victimize more boys.

In sentencing all three men for child endangerment, Judge John Boccabella in Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas also harshly criticized the late, revered football coach Joe Paterno for failing to alert authorities.

Graham Spanier, 68, once the nation's highest-paid public university president, was ordered incarcerated for four to 12 months with two years probation.

Former athletic director Timothy Curley, 63, was sentenced to seven to 23 months incarceration and two years probation.

Ex-vice president Gary Schultz, 67, who supervised the campus police force, was ordered to serve six to 23 months behind bars and two years probation.

The three men were accused of covering up a 2001 complaint filed by then-graduate student Michael McQueary, who said he witnessed Sandusky sexually assaulting a boy who was about 10 years old in the campus football locker room showers.

 

[diefree666]

and still there are penn st homers who claim saint joe did all he could.

 

[csirl]

Should be put away for longer.

Sad to say, but this scandal still hasn't changed attitudes in a lot of educational institutions. Still many turning a blind eye to child protection.

 

[Silver Surfer]

After the educators, the next group should be........ politicians..... nobody should be above the law..... nobody.

 

[jwooten15]

I wonder if they'd lock Paterno right up with them if he were still alive. I hate to say it, but I doubt they would.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

I wonder if they'd lock Paterno right up with them if he were still alive. I hate to say it, but I doubt they would.

They couldn't, by law, if he was alive. As much as I despise Paterno's role in this, they could not legally lock him up over this.

Penn State not getting the death penalty over this shows how big of a joke, bought and paid for of an organization that the NCAA is.





YR

 

[jwooten15]

They couldn't, by law, if he was alive. As much as I despise Paterno's role in this, they could not legally lock him up over this.

Penn State not getting the death penalty over this shows how big of a joke, bought and paid for of an organization that the NCAA is.





YR

Would they not be able to charge him with child endangerment, like they did these three others?

And I totally agree with you on the second part. Give the death penalty to universities who pay their athletes, but give a proverbial slap on the write to a university that made a habit of covering up continued sexual assaults on children.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Would they not be able to charge him with child endangerment, like they did these three others?

And I totally agree with you on the second part. Give the death penalty to universities who pay their athletes, but give a proverbial slap on the write to a university that made a habit of covering up continued sexual assaults on children.

I believe because he discussed this with Schultz and Curley he would be considered a 'whistle blower' and thus not subject to prosecution. Remember, the big thing about Paterno is that he knew about it and never had the gumption to ask Curley and Schultz 'what's going on with Jerry and that time McQueery told us he saw him fondling a child?'

The other parts that were disgusting was Paterno saying he didn't know what sodomy was (it's in the Bible for cryin' out loud and he was supposedly a very devout Catholic). The defense for Paterno was also that he 'went to the police' when he went to Curley, but Curley was an accountant that had no arresting authority in the state of Pennsylvania (he couldn't even hire police officers).

In the case of McQueery's accusation...it was one of those situations where Paterno did not legally break the law, he just did the absolute bare minimum. But, the scary part is that the university and the police never really went beyond the McQueery accusation. For instance, one of the victims gave testimony on a conversation he had with Sandusky that Paterno basically knew what was going on. This was *before* the McQueery accusation. Combine that with Sandusky turning down the Virginia job and oddly retiring a lot of that points back to Paterno knowing about Sandusky being a pedophile.

SMU was given the death penalty because the upper level administration was complicit in breaking NCAA rules after they had been penalized for breaking them. PSU had the same exact issue except it was about the raping of children. Furthermore, the boosters, fans and college didn't seem to get the point that child rape far outweighs the status of any sports program. The death penalty would have gotten that point across for good.





YR