Sizing up Penn State’s liability in abuse scandal
By Andrew Longstreth
NEW YORK | Sat Jun 23, 2012 12:37am EDT
(Reuters) – The was loaded with details of the child sex abuse a jury has now convicted the one-time Penn State assistant football coach of carrying out over 15 years, but it revealed little about the university’s potential liability in the scandal.
That is likely to change in a related prosecution of two former university officials: athletic director Tim Curley and finance official Gary Schultz.
Both have been charged with perjury and failing to alert authorities to one act of sexual abuse by Sandusky in a scandal that tarnished Pennsylvania State University’s name and led to the firing of its president and its head football coach, the late Joe Paterno.
“Their trial will be much more an indictment of Penn State,” said Max Kennerly, a Philadelphia lawyer who is not involved in the case.
A trial date has not been set.
https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/23/us-usa-crime-sandusky-psu-idUSBRE85M02M20120623
The athletic department thought that they were a men’s club and that they would take care of their own. They were a bunch of criminals who aided and abeted in the crimes. The athletic department should be shut down and Penn State should learn how to become a university. Focus on their mission and give the students an education for their money.