Penn State Administrators Spanier, Schultz, Paterno and Curley concealed facts and exposed children to harm for years.
A recent 267-page internal probe by former FBI Director Louis Freeh released today condemned Penn State administrators for a “total disregard for the safety and welfare” of the children sexually abused at the hands of Jerry Sandusky. No kidding.
Some of the key findings, from CNN:
• Before May 1998, several staff members and football coaches regularly observed Sandusky showering with young boys in the Lasch Building (now the East Area Locker Building or “Old Lasch”). None of the individuals interviewed notified their superiors of this behavior.
• University Police and the Department of Public Welfare responded promptly to the report by a young boy’s mother of a possible sexual assault by Sandusky in the Lasch Building on May 3, 1998.
• Despite their knowledge of the criminal investigation of Sandusky, Spanier, Schultz, Paterno and Curley took no action to limit Sandusky’s access to Penn State facilities or took any measures to protect children on their campuses.
• Sandusky was convicted of several assaults that occurred after the 1998 incident. Some of these sexual assaults against young boys might have been prevented had Sandusky been prohibited from bringing minors to University facilities and University football bowl
games.
I think we all knew they were guilty as hell once this interview came out. Now we just have to hear the grisly details.
Well, I think, they are supposed to be funding many sexual abuse/child abuse centers/organizations in their area, aren’t they?
Less money to idiots at the top of Penn State and more money to organizations like PASSAGES and other noble, but impoverished groups!
I hope more children and students of schools and universities come out and report!
All I can say is that I hope to GOD someone makes this University and those individuals pay until it hurts them and decreases their quality of living, etc. Not that I want them to feel the pain or anything like that. But because we need to make it VERY clear that children’s lives and futures are more important than *anything else* including money or winning or reputation. What happens now, and going forward, in regards to sentencing Sandusky and also the punitive aspect of these particular findings, will send a message to survivors that they matter and that we… Read more »
Joanna – I read your comment and thought “That’s the Joanna we all know so well – the Lioness, claws ready to protect her cubs – against all comers.” I’d hate to be on your bad side and in reach. P^) I even thought your response was a bit OTT! Then I saw two things! 1) PSU blanked their own students from watching the Freeh press conference Read It Here … WTF? 2) I watched the live press conference with the PSU trustees responding to the report and being questioned by the press. Talk about defensive – failing to learn… Read more »
Snot OTT IMHO. Being denied rescue as an abused child is brain-scrambling, life-ending horror beyond the “top.”
Having the rapist protected by dozens of adults…That’s OTT!
Lioness claws employed to keep the jungle safe…Never OTT!
It’s beyond official! I am shocked and actually can’t believe what I have been reading over the last 3 hours or so! One phrase jumps out of the Freeh report Time and Time again. “The Special Investigative Counsel did not find any evidence of …” – and it does not read as a denial, but a clear hint to others as to what still needs to be uncovered and where focus should be. It keeps on coming up time and time again … and all traced back to 1998 and the oddities that kept on coming out of PSU towards… Read more »