Penn State former coach charged with sexually abusing eight boys

Sandusky as Penn State player in 1965.
The presentment to the grand jury
is here and the grand jury's report is
here. Photo: Pennsylvania Attorney
General's office

UDPATE: After an emergency Penn State Board of Trustees meeting Sunday night, President Graham Spanier announced that Athletic Director Tim Curley will, at his request, be placed on administrative leave and that Gary Schultz, VP for finance and business will return to retirement. Both have been charged with failing to report the abuse to police. Curley also has been charged with perjury.

Jerry Sandusky, 67, the former Penn State defensive coordinator, has been charged with 40 counts related to sexual abuse of eight young boys over 15 years after a three-year investigation by Pennsylvania attorney general. He was one of the most accomplished college assistant coaches in America who never became a head coach.

...Two top university officials — Gary Schultz, the senior vice president for finance and business, and Tim Curley, the athletic director — were charged with perjury and failure to report to authorities what they knew of the allegations, as required by state law...

     A grand jury said that when Mr. Paterno learned of one allegation of abuse in 2002, he immediately reported it to Mr. Curley. The grand jury did not implicate Mr. Paterno in any wrongdoing, though it was unclear if he ever followed up on his initial conversation with Mr. Curley or tried to alert the authorities himself....

      Mr. Sandusky brought one boy to San Antonio for the 1999 Alamo Bowl, according to the report, but threatened to send him home when the boy resisted his sexual advances. He reportedly guaranteed that boy that he could walk on to Penn State’s football team, and the boy was shown in a photograph with him that appeared in Sports Illustrated.