The Penn State situation somehow finds a way to get worse and worse every day.
On Monday, Sara Ganim of the Patriot-News reported that, according to sources close to the Jerry Sandusky investigation, three other men have come forward to allege abuse by Sandusky. These allegations are different, though, specifically in terms of the timeframe. Here’s more.
Sources close to the Jerry Sandusky case say that three men have come forward and told police that they were abused in the 1970s or 1980s by the convicted pedophile.
They are the first men to allege abuse before the 1990s and, if found to be credible, would directly attack the 68-year-old’s defense argument that a person doesn’t become pedophile in his or her 50s.
If the allegations are true—and thus far, all we know about them is that the police are aware of them—it means Sandusky was engaging in the predatory conduct for a majority of the 30 years he spent coaching at Penn State. And just like that, if the allegations are true, it’s time to start asking who knew what and when all over again.
Without knowing any details, it seems unlikely that any evidence will come up linking Penn State and its administrators to these newest allegations. Unlike in 1998 and 2001, Penn State officials weren’t using email to discuss matters like these—and if they were interested in a coverup, they certainly weren’t making notes of that fact and storing them for posterity’s sake. So unless someone speaks up or there’s an assertion from one of the allegers that the school was involved, this is primarily bad news for Sandusky.
Still, prolonging Sandusky’s pattern of behavior to that long does Penn State absolutely no favors, either—especially with Sandusky being a well-established coach there the entire time.
Still, as NCAA compliance blogger John Infante points out, this whole scandal has been bad enough for Penn State that there’s a way for the NCAA to just boot PSU out of membership completely at the next convention, without significantly amending any bylaws. It would require a supermajority and there’s no sense that such a supermajority exists yet, but the blueprint is there for Penn State to be out of the NCAA.
At the very least, per StateCollege.com, Sandusky’s retirement package was officially revoked. It included access to university facilities, free season tickets and a lump sum payment of $168,000. So at the very least, Penn State will be getting all that back. Wait, what’s that?
University spokesman Dave La Torre did not immediately know when the package was revoked, be it after Sandusky’s arrest, conviction or another time. He added the university has no plans to recover a lump sum payment of $168,000.
Worse and worse everyday.
