A recent report published online alleges that a key witness working at Penn State when the Nov. 2000 sexual abuse incident involving Jerry Sandusky occurred could not have seen the incident because the man was not employed by the university yet.
Ray Blehar, author of “Report 3: Sandusky Investigation and Special Report,” posted on SanduskyReports.com, writes that information recently obtained from the Penn State payroll office reveals that the custodian, James “Jim” Calhoun, who allegedly witnessed the Nov. 2000 shower incident, wasn’t hired until December 2000.
Blehar writes that “this evidence, obtained on July 16th, was immediately turned over to the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General for its use in the ongoing probe of the 2008-2011 Sandusky investigation.”
According to the 23-page grand jury presentment, Calhoun had witnessed Sandusky performing a sex act on a boy in the showers in the Lasch Football building. When Calhoun told other staff members what he had seen, he said he had “fought in the [Korean] war…seen people with their guts blown out, arms dismembered … I just witnessed something in there I will never forget.”
Calhoun told his immediate supervisor, Jay Witherite, what he had witnessed and Witherite told the distraught employee who to report the incident to, if he chose to do so, according to the presentment.
Calhoun was a temporary employee who worked at the university for about eight months. No report was ever filed by Calhoun and he was unable to testify because he suffers from dementia.
David La Torre, Penn State’s media relations contact, says the university does not comment on reports published by sites such as FramingPaterno.com and SanduskyReports.com.
According to the website, SanduskyReports.com is “dedicated to reporting the truth about the Sandusky Scandal.”
