What did Joe Paterno really know about the Sandusky scandal at Penn State
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This weekend, HBO’s “Paterno,” starring Al Pacino as the iconic coach, revisits the first few weeks of those tumultuous 12 months in State College, Pa., and likely will revive, for some, the debate over cheap designer bags replica Paterno’s role in Sandusky’s crimes. While the case faded from national headlines in late 2012, it has fueled years of legal battles in Pennsylvania and a power struggle on the board of trustees at Penn State that is still unfolding today.
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The first documented suspicion about Sandusky came when the mother of an 11 year old participant in the Second Mile, Sandusky’s charity for at risk children, called police replica wallets after her son told her Sandusky had hugged him while they showered. During the ensuing investigation involving Penn State police, the local district attorney’s replica bags office and a local child protection agency another Second Mile participant, a 10 year old boy, also said Sandusky hugged him while they showered.
While neither boy described sex acts, a psychologist who interviewed best replica designer bags one of the boys gave police a report that concluded the interactions the boy described with Sandusky bag replica high quality matched “a likely pedophile’s pattern of building trust and gradual introduction of physical touch.” A therapist who worked with the child protection agency, however, filed a contradicting report, concluding Sandusky “didn’t fit the profile of a pedophile.”
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The 2001 case
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Wholesale Replica Bags https://www.ladyclip.com When approached by police years later, McQueary said he saw Sandusky standing behind the boy, engaged in what he believed to be a sex act, and that he reported this vaguely to Paterno but described it explicitly when he later met with Curley and Senior Vice President Gary Schultz, who oversaw university police. high quality designer replica Curley and Schultz, however, said McQueary replica designer bags wholesale was also vague with them, and that, though they can’t recall the precise words, McQueary described Sandusky and the boy as engaged in “horseplay” high end replica bags or “horsing around,” and not a sex act. After Curley met with Paterno, however, he changed his mind and suggested a plan that Spanier and Schultz agreed to: Curley barred Sandusky from bringing children to Penn State’s football facilities and met with Jack Raykovitz, executive director of the Second Mile, to inform him of the incident. Wholesale Replica Bags
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Fake Designer Bags Paterno died before emails from 2001 between the administrators showing the changing of plans came to light, and he was never asked about that fateful meeting with Curley. Fake Designer Bags
Prosecutors and Freeh believed McQueary, whose testimony became the basis for perjury, child endangerment and obstruction of justice charges against the administrators. There are questions about the accuracy of McQueary’s memory, however. Until investigators uncovered emails between the administrators from 2001, McQueary thought the incident happened in March 2002. A close family friend who was one of the first people McQueary spoke with that night Jonathan Dranov, a State College physician and a mandatory reporter of child abuse by law repeatedly has testified McQueary didn’t tell him he saw a sex act, but rather that he heard sexual sounds, then later saw Sandusky and a boy leaving the shower.
Designer Replica Bags When prosecutors announced charges in 2011, court documents describing the 2001 incident used more explicit terminology that McQueary would later testify he had never used: Prosecutors wrote that McQueary witnessed an anal rape and reported “what he had seen” to Paterno, Curley good quality replica bags and Schultz. Designer Replica Bags
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As Pennsylvania attorney general, Corbett had overseen the early stages of the Sandusky investigation before he was elected governor. Some believe the focus on failings high quality replica bags at Penn State replica bags from china diverted attention from failings at state agencies, including the attorney general’s office, which later drew criticism as details emerged about a criminal investigation that moved at a plodding pace that frustrated the first victim to contact police in 2008.
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Handbags Replica In 2013, newly elected attorney general Kathleen Kane, a Democrat who had suggested on the campaign trail that Corbett slow walked the Sandusky investigation so that it didn’t affect his run for governor, appointed a special prosecutor to review the Sandusky investigation. The resulting report criticized the investigation’s pace but found no evidence of political considerations having any influence. Handbags Replica
In 2014, Corbett became the first incumbent Pennsylvania governor in 40 years to lose a bid for reelection. In a phone interview last year, Corbett said he believes the Sandusky case played a role.
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