PATRIOT NEWS: Reopening a long-delayed fight for his reputation, former Penn State President Graham Spanier filed separate lawsuits Wednesday against the university and its chief Jerry Sandusky investigator, Louis Freeh…
Spanier claims Penn State trustees and Freeh colluded to make him, his top administrators and former Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno fall guys for the Sandusky child sex scandal that rocked the university, Pennsylvania and the college football world in 2011 and 2012…
Spanier has maintained he believed at the time that the incident in a Penn State shower was mere “horseplay,” and was never told that it involved the potential of sexual abuse… (more)
NEWSLANC: We believe Spanier is correct. He, along with Coach Joe Paterno, was a victim of then governor and prior attorney general Tom Corbett’s attempt to deflect attention from himself for “slow walking” the Sandusky investigation.
Neither Paterno and likely Spanier were told that retired professor (and coach) Jerry Sandusky was witnessed in a sexual act with a child in the Penn State field house showers. The matter was otherwise characterized.
What he had been told about the incident was promptly reported by Paterno to Penn State’s own police department. Sandusky was subsequently barred from using the field house.
The panic of the moment over unjustifiable accusations brought great harm to people tangentially involved and damage to the Penn State’s athletic program, its finances and its reputation.
Little wonder that Corbett was later trounced at the polls while his party was racking up big gains in the legislature.
