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Monday 18 July 2016
Coaches at Penn State with Sandusky find selves on defense
was often seen around the “The assistant coaches saw knowledged it later settled
Former Penn State baseball player Anthony Lubrano, answers football facility with young all that and more.†with a man who said he
questions after a meeting of the Penn State Board of Trustees in boys, sometimes taking But, Oliver added: “Suspi- was abused in 1971. That
State College, Pa. Newly disclosed sworn statements by men them on the road to big cious behavior is, of course, man is among 32 people
who say Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky sex- games. Even after his 1999 one thing. Actual acts are who have shared $92 mil-
ually abused them are putting new focus on his fellow assistant retirement, Sandusky kept something else. One could lion in civil settlements from
coaches at Penn State. an office on campus and imagine a natural reluc- the university.
(AP Photo/Andy Colwell) had access to a staff lock- tance to speak out about McQueary, a key prosecu-
er room. “When we saw the merely suspicious behav- tion witness at Sandusky’s
pictures of those kids on the ior.†Sandusky is serving 30 trial, gave a deposition last
sidelines at bowl games to 60 years in prison for his year in which he claimed
— I know it was hindsight, conviction on 45 counts of former assistant coach Tom
but it looked odd,†said sexual abuse. Bradley “said he knew of
Duquesne Law professor His 2012 trial covered abuse some things†about San-
Wes Oliver, who has fol- dating to the mid-1990s, dusky dating to the early
lowed the case closely. but Penn State has ac- 1980s.q
MARK SCOLFORO ily of the late head football
coach Joe Paterno. “I get
MICHAEL R. SISAK why they’re not standing
in front of a microphone
Associated Press screaming from the top of
their lungs.†Three of the
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — four coaches named in
newly released depositions
Newly disclosed allega- given by men who reached
settlements with Penn State
tions from men who have made statements this week
denying claims that they
accused Jerry Sandusky witnessed or were aware
of Sandusky’s abuse. The
of sexual abuse raise fresh fourth coach, Joe Sarra,
died four years ago. The
questions about what his Paterno family’s lawyer
issued a statement last
fellow Penn State assistant week casting doubt on
a bombshell claim in the
coaches might have seen documents that a boy told
Paterno in 1976 that San-
or known in the decades dusky had abused him and
that Paterno didn’t want to
before his November 2011 hear about it. Paterno told
a grand jury in 2011 he first
arrest, and why they’ve learned of Sandusky’s con-
duct in 2001, when then-
largely stayed silent since. assistant coach Mike Mc-
Queary went to him after
Sandusky’s former col- seeing Sandusky assaulting
a boy in a team shower.
leagues found themselves Sandusky coached for Pa-
terno for three decades
on the defensive this week starting in 1969, leading
staunch defenses that
because of claims in court helped win two national
titles in the 1980s.
documents that some of He founded a charity for
at-risk children in 1977 and
the couple of dozen as-
sistants who spent time in
the program while he was
there may have witnessed
Sandusky abusing children
as far back as the 1980s.
Aside from blanket deni-
als made through lawyers
and spokespeople, the for-
mer assistants who worked
alongside Sandusky have
said little publicly about the
scandal.
“These guys are very sensi-
tive to their employment.
It’s not easy to go out and
replace a half-million-dollar
income,†said Penn State
Trustee Anthony Lubrano,
who is close with the fam-
