PENNSYLVANIA
ABC News
By MARK SCOLFORO and MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. July 14, 2012 (AP)
Legal experts say emails and other evidence from the Penn State sex abuse case suggest that Joe Paterno and other university officials put boys in danger with their failure to report sexual abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky more than a decade ago.
The allegations are similar to those made against a top Philadelphia archdiocese official who was convicted on child endangerment charges last month.
Duquesne University law professor Wes Oliver said former FBI Director Louis Freeh’s investigative report on the Penn State scandal reads like a prosecution case for a child endangerment charge against Paterno, then-President Graham Spanier, athletic director Tim Curley and now-retired vice president Gary Schultz.
Oliver noted that Monsignor William Lynn was convicted for allowing a suspected pedophile priest to be around children. Prosecutors said Lynn helped the Philadelphia archdiocese keep predators in ministry and the public in the dark.
Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.