Report by former FBI director finds Penn State concealed child sex abuse

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Source: Associated Press via FOX

PHILADELPHIA – Joe Paterno and other top Penn State officials hushed up child sex abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky more than a decade ago for fear of bad publicity, allowing the former assistant football coach to prey on other youngsters, according to a scathing report issued Thursday on the scandal.

"Our most saddening and sobering finding is the total disregard for the safety and welfare of Sandusky's child victims by the most senior leaders at Penn State," said former FBI Director Louis Freeh, who was hired by university trustees to look into what has become one of sports' biggest scandals. "The most powerful men at Penn State failed to take any steps for 14 years to protect the children who Sandusky victimized."

After an eight-month investigation, Freeh's firm produced a 267-page report that concluded that the Hall of Fame coach, President Graham Spanier, athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz "repeatedly concealed critical facts relating to Sandusky's child abuse."

Paterno "was an integral part of this active decision to conceal" and his firing was justified, Freeh said at a news conference. He called the officials' disregard for child victims "callous and shocking."


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/12/report-by-former-fbi-director-finds-that-penn-state-disregarded-children/

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[Kingofalldems]

1. He should have added 'and criminal' to his report.

[rhett o rick]

2. Exactly. nm

[SpankMe]

3. NCAA should suspend Penn State long term

They call this the NCAA "death penalty", the worst sanction and penalty meted out by the NCAA.

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/48126484/ns/sports-college_football/

[lovuian]

4. Covering up pedophilia makes you a criminal too

that you stood back and watched


truly criminal

[GeorgeGist]

5. To those who believe that Winning is Everything

JoePa died knowing that he Lost Everything.

[Archae]

6. The biggest factor here is money.

Money from a successful football program.

Everything else, including decency and actual morals, be damned.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Horrible

So ... Penn State hijinks became a huge issue just when oil fracking should have been making headlines?

Was the timing of one used to distract from the other?

Or is it coincidence?

In the absence of truthful disclosure we do not know.

This is just to note the timing.

[elbloggoZY27]

8. Penn State Booo!!!!

I have no sense of humor at the ugliness that went on at the University & I surely do not condone what went on and was covered up. However, I find it sad that the late Coach Paterno has taken such a big hit.

[csziggy]

9. Coach Paterno KNEW what Sandusky was doing

And enabled a child molester. He didn't care one iota what happened to those children. He only cared what happened to his sacred football program.

Paterno should have been charged with abetting a pedophile. Too bad he died before that could happen.