Disturbing e-mails could spell more trouble for Penn State officials
CNN With convicted serial child sex abuser Jerry Sandusky behind bars, new questions are surfacing about what Penn State officials knew about a 2001 incident involving the former assistant football coach’s encounter with a boy in the shower — and whether they covered up the incident…
The messages indicate former Penn State President Graham Spanier and two other former university officials knew they had a problem with Sandusky after a 2001 shower incident, but apparently first decided to handle it using a “humane” approach before contacting outside authorities whose job it is to investigate suspected abuse…
“As Governor Tom Corbett stated, ‘If we were going to do this case, we had to have the best possible case to go against somebody like Mr. Sandusky who was … loved by everybody. Carried out of the football stadium on the shoulders of his football team. How can anybody say there must be something wrong with him?’” the lawyers’ statement read, citing Corbett’s remarks in a June 25 article by The Patriot News… (more)
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Interestingly this continues to be a PSU scandal with Corbett pulling the strings.
This is a Second Mile Scandal. PSU admin. were not mandatory reporters, they reported to Second Mile who were.
Sandusky should have been indicted in 2008, Corbett did nothing and he continues to lie and play the media to cover up his involvement in this wherein he put politics ahead of public safety. When it comes out that McQueary is lying and these memos are merely discussions about heresay from McQueary the case against PSU will fall apart.
Hopefully that means the real focus will be on Second Mile and State officials.