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Right-wing director defends interview with child molester for pro-Paterno documentary
NBC News was criticized Monday morning for airing and promoting a right-wing documentarian’s interview with convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky. On Monday, the family of Sandusky’s supervisor, deceased Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno, said in a release that the airing of excerpts from documentarian John Ziegler’s interview with…
Christian radio hosts: Boy Scouts lifting gay ban would lead to having ‘a Jerry Sandusky as your scout master’
Christian radio hosts Matt Barber and Mat Staver unleashed a torrent of anti-LGBT fearmongering on their “Faith and Freedom” show on Friday in complaining about the Boy Scouts of America’s possible lifting of its ban on gay members. Media Matters reported. “It makes no sense to have a Jerry Sandusky…
Paterno family report says original findings regarding Sandusky scandal were ‘fundamentally flawed’
Findings that the late Penn State coach Joe Paterno conspired to cover-up child sex abuse carried out by Jerry Sandusky have been slammed as “fundamentally flawed” in a new report commissioned by Paterno’s family. The report, by a team led by the former US attorney general Dick Thornburgh, challenges conclusions…
Penn State ex-president faces charges over sex scandal
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — Former Penn State University president Graham Spanier faces charges in connection with the Jerry Sandusky child molesting scandal, Pennsylvania’s attorney general announced on Thursday. Linda Kelly said Spanier has been charged with perjury, criminal conspiracy, obstruction of justice, endangering the welfare of children and failing to report…
Former Penn State president to be charged in Sandusky scandal
Former Penn State President Graham Spanier will be facing charges for his role in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal and cover-up at the university. According to Reuters, a source close to the investigation and criminal lawsuit said that Spanier will be charged with five counts, including conspiracy, perjury,…
Climate scientist sues The National Review for defamation
Michael Mann, a scientist in the centre of the climate wars, has sued a rightwing thinktank and a magazine for comparing him to the convicted sex offender and disgraced football coach Jerry Sandusky and accusing him of academic fraud. Mann, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University, announced the defamation…
Penn State aims to settle child sexual abuse lawsuits ‘as quickly as possible’
Penn State intends to settle lawsuits stemming from the sexual abuse of children by its former assistant football coach “as quickly as possible” and is “adequately covered” to compensate victims, the university’s president has said. In an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation, Rodney Erickson expressed a desire to avoid…
Penn State fined $60 million for Sandusky’s crimes
The football program at Penn State University will pay $60 million to child abuse-prevention programs as part of a series of penalties for the sexual assaults committed by former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, the NCAA announced Monday. As SI.com reports, NCAA President Mark Emmert announced Monday morning that the program…
What the Freeh report on Sandusky says about the failure of police who investigate sex crimes
There has been a lot of attention paid to the Freeh report and its blistering indictment of the culture at Penn State that the authors said led to “a striking lack of empathy for child abuse victims” (including by me in The Guardian yesterday). But after reading the report, I’m…
WATCH LIVE: Penn State officials respond to report on Sandusky abuse
After the FBI released a damning report Thursday morning that Penn State officials’ repeated refusals to go public with Jerry Sandusky’s sexual abuse, Penn State officials held a press conference Thursday afternoon to respond to the report. Sandusky was convicted last month on 45 of 48 counts of sexual abuse…
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