STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania: A university’s investigation into a child abuse scandal that shocked the US concludes that college football coach Joe Paterno and other senior officials concealed critical facts relating to an assistant coaches child abuse because they were worried about bad publicity.
A 267-page report is the result of an eight-month inquiry by former FBI director Louis Freeh, hired by Penn State university trustees weeks after Jerry Sandusky was arrested in November to look into what has become one of sports’ biggest scandals.
The report says president Graham Spanier, football coach Joe Paterno, athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz “failed to protect against a child sexual predator harming children for over a decade.”
Sandusky is awaiting sentencing after being convicted of 45 criminal counts. The scandal led to the ouster of Paterno and the school’s president.
University officials concealed abuse
