The family is acting amid reports that the university is considering removing a statue of Paterno from outside the school’s Beaver Stadium. “We have also asked them to go beyond the report and identify additional information that should be analyzed,” the family said. The family said it is asking attorneys and experts to review the Freeh report and its findings. But to claim that he knowingly, intentionally protected a pedophile is false,” the family stated. It can certainly be asserted that Joe Paterno could have done more. It is also a matter of record that Joe Paterno promptly and fully reported the 2001 incident to his superiors.
“The 1998 incident was fully and independently investigated by law enforcement officials. The family repeated its position that Paterno did not shield Sandusky nor do anything to impede any investigation into Paterno’s top aide.ĭOCUMENT: Paterno, Penn State failed in Sandusky case We believe numerous issues in the report, and his commentary, bear further review.” Freeh presented his opinions and interpretations as if they were absolute facts. “We are dismayed by, and vehemently disagree with, some of the conclusions and assertions and the process by which they were developed. “The announcement of the findings by the Freeh Group is yet another shocking turn of events in this crisis,” the Paterno family said in a statement e-mailed to reporters Monday. The Paterno family has strongly rejected such suggestions. The report also cites emails to show that Paterno knew of the 1998 report but did not act to bar Sandusky from the campus. The Freeh report argues that it was Paterno who persuaded other administrators to keep the scandal in-house despite legal requirements that abuse be reported to outside authorities. But the reports of more victims could be a factor in the forthcoming civil suits by Sandusky victims against the university. Sandusky, 68, already faces hundreds of years in prison when he’s sentenced in the fall. It is unclear whether the allegations will lead to new criminal charges. The three men are the first to allege abuse before the 1990s, the period covered by Sandusky’s trial.
Meanwhile, reports that Sandusky may have abused some victims as early as the 1970s raised new questions about the already complicated legal liability issues in the scandal.Ĭiting “sources close to the Jerry Sandusky case,” the Patriot-News reported that three men have told police that they were abused in the 1970s or 1980s by Sandusky, who was convicted in June on 45 criminal charges of sexually abusing boys. Joe Paterno’s family continued its fight Monday to save the reputation of one of college football’s most honored coaches, insisting that it will conduct its own investigation into the Penn State University child sex-abuse scandal tied to Jerry Sandusky.
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