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Expert: Penn State report ups legal risk for former president
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2...port-ups-legal-risk-for-former-president?lite
Of four former top Penn State employees accused by an independent investigation of concealing sexual abuse by Jerry Sandusky, one is dead and two are facing charges of perjury and not reporting abuse.
The fourth, former university president Graham Spanier, remains on the Penn State staff and hasn't been charged.
But a report published Thursday on what went wrong at Penn State outlines Spanier's actions and could increase the likelihood that prosecutors will pursue criminal charges against him as well, a legal expert said............
"As he told Judge Freeh himself last Friday and has steadfastly maintained, at no time in his 16 years as President of Penn State was Dr. Spanier told of any incident involving Jerry Sandusky that described child abuse, sexual misconduct, or criminality of any nature."
Email conversations documented by the report seem to suggest that Spanier was informed by Shultz about the 1998 investigation of Sandusky, which arose after a mother alleged that the coach sexually assaulted her 11-year-old son in a shower..............
There is no record of Spanier speaking directly to McQueary.
"(Spanier's) biggest defense is he didnt hear it from McQueary," said Filler. "He heard it from Curley and Schultz."..............
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2...port-ups-legal-risk-for-former-president?lite
Of four former top Penn State employees accused by an independent investigation of concealing sexual abuse by Jerry Sandusky, one is dead and two are facing charges of perjury and not reporting abuse.
The fourth, former university president Graham Spanier, remains on the Penn State staff and hasn't been charged.
But a report published Thursday on what went wrong at Penn State outlines Spanier's actions and could increase the likelihood that prosecutors will pursue criminal charges against him as well, a legal expert said............
"As he told Judge Freeh himself last Friday and has steadfastly maintained, at no time in his 16 years as President of Penn State was Dr. Spanier told of any incident involving Jerry Sandusky that described child abuse, sexual misconduct, or criminality of any nature."
Email conversations documented by the report seem to suggest that Spanier was informed by Shultz about the 1998 investigation of Sandusky, which arose after a mother alleged that the coach sexually assaulted her 11-year-old son in a shower..............
There is no record of Spanier speaking directly to McQueary.
"(Spanier's) biggest defense is he didnt hear it from McQueary," said Filler. "He heard it from Curley and Schultz."..............