"If you look at what happened here, it's very clear that they were aware that they had a pedophile on their campus," Oliver said. Oliver noted that a former top official in the Philadelphia Archdiocese was convicted of that charge in June for allowing a suspected pedophile priest to be around children.
Legal experts said emails and other evidence in the Penn State investigative report released Thursday suggest that Paterno may have misled a grand jury when asked when he first heard about Jerry Sandusky's misconduct, and show that Paterno and other university officials put boys in danger with their failure to report sexual abuse allegations against Sandusky more than a decade ago.ĭuquesne University law professor Wes Oliver said the report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh 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. If he were alive today, Joe Paterno - the coach who stood so long for character and integrity both on and off the football field - could be looking at charges such as child endangerment, perjury and conspiracy.
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Joe Paterno Could Have Faced Criminal Charges If He Were Still Alive, Including Child Endangerment and Perjury.
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