At least two senior administrators at Penn State were made aware of reports that former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky sexually abused a young boy in an on-campus shower area and did not report the situation to police, according to a grand jury report released Saturday.
Sandusky faces 40 counts on charges including involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a minor less than 16 years of age, aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault of a minor less than 13 years old and endangering the welfare of a child, among others, according to court documents.
According to the report, both Athletic Director Tim Curley and Vice President for Finance and Business Gary Schultz were made aware of a sexual abuse situation in 2002 and failed to report it to police, and were subsequently charged today with perjury and failure to report.
A graduate assistant witnessed Sandusky sexually abusing a young boy in the showers of the LaschFootball Building in 2002 and reported the information to his father. Head football coach Joe Paterno was made aware of the situation and made both Curley and Schultz aware of the situation, according to the report.
Though Schultz oversaw the Penn State University Police Department as a part of his position, he never reported the incident to police, did not ask the graduate assistant for more information and failed to seek the identity of the child. No one from the university did so, according to the report.
In his testimony, Schultz said there was never any discussion between him and Curley to report the incident to police. Instead, they banned Sandusky from bringing children in the football locker room, according to the report.
President Graham Spanier also testified before the Grand Jury during the investigation and said Curley and Schultz came to him in 2002 to report an “uncomfortable incident” but said it was not reported to him as a sexual matter.
Spanier also denied being aware of the investigation of another incident that occurred in 1998 where Sandusky was questioned on the basis of his involvement with a different boy in showers located on campus.
Spanier and Paterno were not charged in connection with the incidents.
According to the testimony, Sandusky also had access to football locker rooms after he retired as a coach in 1999.
The grand jury reports that parts of Curley’s and Schultz’s testimony were “not credible.”
According to the testimony, Sandusky met eight young boys that he sexually abused through his non-profit organization, The Second Mile — a charity that provides support for underprivileged children.
Sandusky sexually abused at least seven of them in Penn State football facilities such as the Lasch Football Building and the East Area Locker Room, according to testimony.