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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…
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…
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 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…
Freeh report: Penn State officials showed ‘total disregard’ for Sandusky victims
Former FBI head and federal judge Louis Freeh has released a devastating report on the results of the independent investigation into the role played by high-ranking Penn State University (PSA) officials in covering up and enabling the crimes of Jerry Sandusky, who was convicted last month of 45 out of…
WATCH LIVE: FBI releases report on Sandusky abuse at Penn State
A team led by former federal judge and FBI director Louis Freeh released a scathing report (PDF) on the sexual abuses of Penn State’s Jerry Sandusky on Thursday, who was convicted on 45 counts of abuse last month in court. The Freeh report is the compilation of hundreds of interviews…
E-mails reveal Penn State complicity in Sandusky cover-up
A former president of Penn State University failed to report allegations of child sex abuse against Jerry Sandusky despite knowing inaction could leave the college “vulnerable”, according to emails seen by several news organisations. Sandusky, a former assistant football coach at Penn State, is currently awaiting sentencing after being found…
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