Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Penn State sex abuse scandal refers to allegations that former Pennsylvania State University football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky sexually assaulted or had inappropriate contact with at least eight underage boys on or near university property.
Read More at Wikipedia ›The warning signs were there for more than a decade, disturbing indicators that Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was breaching boundaries with young boys — or maybe worse.
Yet the university's top administrators kept allowing, even encouraging, Sandusky to invite some of those boys into campus sports buildings — locker rooms, showers, a sauna and a swimming pool — where prosecutors now say he fondled, molested and sexually assaulted some of the most vulnerable in the place known as Happy Valley.Too many, from the university president to department heads to janitors, knew of troubling behavior by this revered, longtime coach who founded a charity for children with hardscrabble backgrounds. But at this school whose sports programs vow "success with honor," the circle of knowledge was kept very limited and very private.Year after year, Penn State missed opportunity after opportunity to stop Sandusky. Secrecy ruled, and reaction to complaints of improper sexual behavior wa...A plan designed to soothe angry Penn State University alumni may instead be sowing seeds of outrage.School President Rodney Erickson appeared Thursday night at a hot...
The child sex-abuse case against former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky shifts Tuesday to Bellefonte, Pa. -- 10 miles from the university's campus -- as a v...
The child sexual abuse scandal at Penn State University has prompted state lawmakers across the nation to take another look at laws designed to protect children and ...
Lawyers for a young man described in a grand jury report as a victim of sexual abuse by former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky said Thursday they settled a...
A judge on Wednesday denied a request from former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky to delay the June 5 start of his child sex-abuse trial.Judge John Cleland...
The former Penn State assistant coach accused of having sex with young boys he met through his charity admits in a TV interview that he showered with boys but says h...
BELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Attorneys for former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, charged with sexually abusing 10 boys, urged a judge on Wednesday...
BELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Attorneys for former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky, charged with sexually abusing 10 boys, urged a judge on Wednesday to toss ...
The Senate has scheduled the first congressional hearing in the wake of the Penn State child abuse scandal.Three senators announced Monday that a Dec. 13 hearing wil...
Two Penn State officials plan to fight perjury charges and allegations they did not respond properly after being told a young boy had been sodomized in the football ...
Two high-ranking Penn State administrators failed to report accusations of sexual abuse of young boys by a top former assistant to legendary football coach Joe Pater...
One of the two charges against two Penn State administrators will likely be dismissed now that prosecutors have come forward to change by one year the date they alle...
Penn State University's president told alumni that the school's crisis can be blamed on one person: former football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. But many alumni a...
Penn State University's president told alumni that the school's crisis can be blamed on one person: former football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. But many alumni a...
New details unfolding in child sex abuse case
Prosecutors asked Tuesday to have Jerry Sandusky kept indoors as part of his bail conditions, citing complaints that the former Penn State assistant football coach w...
The alleged victims of the Penn State child sexual abuse scandal are finding there isn't much in their pasts that the defense isn't trying to find out. Jerry Sandusk...
A 19-year-old man has filed a complaint with state police alleging he was sexually abused by Jerry Sandusky after the former coach gave him liquor on the Penn State ...
Penn State President Rodney Erickson received a subpoena last week to testify regarding the investigation into former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, the un...
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