Former FBI director Louis Freeh, who conducted his own investigation of the Penn. State Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, has uncovered that the late and renowned head football coach, Joe Paterno, along with other Penn. State officials, knowingly, and willingly covered up Sandusky's heinous crimes for over a decade. He specifically pointed out university officials President Graham B. Spanier, Senior Vice President-Finance and Business Gary C. Schultz, Athletic Director Timothy M. Curley and Head Football Coach Joseph V. Paterno, as the main individuals who knew that Sandusky was sexually assaulting many children, but repeatedly covered up his criminal acts.
After a 1998 criminal investigation, five young boys were assaulted on Penn. State property by Sandusky. However, Paterno and the other mentioned Penn. State officials did nothing to stop him because they were too worried about damaging the university's reputation.
Here is what former FBI Director Louis Freeh and his investigative team found while digging into the deep pile of Penn. State sex scandal secrets:
"The most saddening finding by the Special Investigative Counsel is the total and consistent disregard by the most senior leaders at Penn State for the safety and welfare of Sandusky's child victims. As the Grand Jury similarly noted in its presentment, there was no "attempt to investigate, to identify Victim 2, or to protect that child or any others from similar conduct except as related to preventing its re-occurrence on University property.
"Four of the most powerful people at The Pennsylvania State University -- President Graham B. Spanier, Senior Vice President-Finance and Business Gary C. Schultz, Athletic Director Timothy M. Curley and Head Football Coach Joseph V. Paterno -- failed to protect against a child predator harming children for over a decade. These men concealed Sandusky's activities from the Board of Trustees, the University community and authorities. They exhibited a striking lack of empathy for Sandusky's victims by failing to inquire as to their safety and well-being, especially by not attempting to determine the identity of the child who Sandusky assaulted in the Lasch Building in 2001. Further, they exposed this child to additional harm by alerting Sandusky, who was the only one who knew the child's identity, of what McQueary saw in the shower on the night of February 9, 2001.
"These individuals, unchecked by the Board of Trustees that did not perform its oversight duties, empowered Sandusky to attract potential victims to the campus and football events by allowing him to have continued, unrestricted and unsupervised access to the University's facilities and affiliation with the University's prominent football program. Indeed, that continued access provided Sandusky with the very currency that enabled him to attract his victims. Some coaches, administrators and football program staff members ignored the red flags of Sandusky's behaviors and no one warned the public about him."
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