Today, university officials stress the progress Penn State has made in improving safety, reporting expectations, background checks, and ethics and compliance. The board of trustees instituted a code of conduct that anyone remotely connected with athletics must follow. The Penn State football program has rebounded from the Sandusky scandal, although it has yet to be chosen for the College Football Playoff.
Penn State coach James Franklin rockets to the top of any coaching candidate list, but his link to a Vanderbilt rape case may raise questions at USC. He is Inmate KT, 77 years old and not eligible for parole for about 21 more years. The damage Sandusky caused from his crimes is incalculable, starting with an unknown number of boys whose innocence he stole.
In addition, the decision to fire Paterno caused deep divisions in the Penn State community. That is certainly the case in Centre County, Ard said. But we have to realize that there are still sexual predators out there and we have to be vigilant. Donald Heller, vice president of operations and a professor of education at the University of San Francisco, taught at Penn State in and has consulted on higher education policy issues with university systems around the country.
We wanted to see the leadership step up and comment in support of the victims and they did not. At the end of the fall semester, Heller left Penn State, making an already-planned move to Michigan State to become the dean of the College of Education there. In , an investigation by the Indianapolis Star led to a physician from Michigan State who had long worked for USA gymnastics, Larry Nassar , being implicated in sexual assaults of girls and young women going back decades.
Since then, sexual abuse scandals have emerged at other major universities, including in the athletic departments at Ohio State and San Jose State. Dave Bennett joined the Los Angeles Times in as a copy editor on the national desk, then moved to the sports desk two years later.
In , he became sports copy chief and held that job for eight years. After a hiatus of several years, he returned to The Times in as a multiplatform editor on the news copy desk. A native of western Pennsylvania, he has lived in six states and Washington, D.
Lakers guard Austin Reaves to miss at least two weeks with hamstring strain. The accusations: former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky had preyed on children he met through the charitable organization he founded, The Second Mile.
The indictment also charged top university officials Tim Curley and Gary Schultz for lying to the grand jury. McGettigan described the several victims as traumatized young men who did the right thing. Sandusky would eventually be convicted on 45 of 48 counts. In the letters, the disgraced assistant coach defended Joe Paterno and quoted Franco Harris, saying the grand jury presentment was a lie.
Top Spots. According to the A. The story of how Matt ended up in the Sandusky house— laid out in detail by Sara Ganim , of the Patriot-News —sounds more like a tragedy than a soap opera, or, given how many warning signs seem to have been missed, a cautionary tale. The boy started a fire that burned down a barn; Sandusky, who knew him and had spent time with him through Second Mile, asked the juvenile court that Matt be sent to live with him.
Did Sandusky consider that a boy who had done that might not be believed if he turned to other adults for help? The placement was made anyway. A few months after he moved in, Matt and a girl who was also a foster child in the Sandusky home tried to kill themselves. She also spoke to investigators.
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