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Penn St. Athletic Director Leaves Post Amid Former Coach’s Sex Scandal

Tim Curley and Gary Schultz Step Down at Penn St. Amid Sandusky Scandal

Former Penn State football defensive coordinator Gerald "Jerry" Sandusky, center, is placed in a police car in Boalsburg, Pa., to be taken to the office of Centre County Magisterial District Judge Leslie A. Dutchcot on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Just hours after stepping down, two high-ranking Penn State administrators face arraignment Monday on charges they lied to a grand jury investigating former defense coordinator Jerry Sandusky and failed to properly report suspected child abuse, a case that has left fans reeling.

Late Sunday, after an emergency meeting of the Board of Trustees, university President Graham Spanier announced that Athletic Director Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, the school’s senior vice president for business and finance, would be leaving their posts.

Curley requested to be placed on administrative leave so he could devote time to his defense, and Schultz will be going back into retirement, Spanier said. Both men have maintained they are innocent of any wrongdoing in connection with the probe into whether Sandusky sexually abused eight boys over a 15-year period.

State Attorney General Linda Kelly and state police Commissioner Frank Noonan are expected to hold a 1 p.m. news conference about the case Monday a few miles from the Harrisburg district court. The arraignment is scheduled for immediately after that.

Sandusky was arrested Saturday on charges that he preyed on boys he met through The Second Mile, a charity he founded for at-risk youths. The charity said in a statement Sunday that Sandusky has had no involvement with The Second Mile programs involving children since 2008, when Sandusky told the foundation that he was being investigated on child-sex allegations.

Tim Curley and Gary Schultz Step Down at Penn St. Amid Sandusky Scandal

Gary Schultz, the school's senior vice president for business and finance, who has now returned to retirement.

The case has rocked State College, a campus town routinely ranked among America’s best places to live and nicknamed Happy Valley. Under head football coach Joe Paterno – who testified before the grand jury and isn’t considered a suspect – the teams were revered both for winning games, including two national championships, and largely steering clear of trouble.

In a statement issued Sunday, Paterno said the charges were “shocking.”

“The fact that someone we thought we knew might have harmed young people to this extent is deeply troubling,” he said. “If this is true we were all fooled, along with scores of professionals trained in such things, and we grieve for the victims and their families. They are in our prayers.”

Sandusky, whose defenses were usually anchored by tough-guy linebackers, spent three decades at the school. The charges against him cover the period from 1994 to 2009.

Sandusky retired in 1999 but continued to use the school’s facilities, but university officials said Sunday they were moving to ban him from campus in the wake of the charges.

Nils Frederiksen, a spokesman for the state attorney general’s office, told The Associated Press on Sunday that whether Paterno might testify was premature and nothing more than rampant speculation.

“That’s putting the cart way ahead of the horse,” he said. “We’re certainly not going to be discussing the lineup of potential witnesses.”

The allegations against Sandusky, who started The Second Mile in 1977, range from sexual advances to touching to oral and anal sex. The young men testified before a state grand jury that they were in their early teens when some of the abuse occurred; there is evidence even younger children may have been victimized.

Sandusky’s attorney Joe Amendola said his client has been aware of the accusations for about three years and has maintained his innocence.

Tim Curley and Gary Schultz Step Down at Penn St. Amid Sandusky Scandal

An Oct. 15, 2002 file photo showing Penn State Athletic Director Tim Curley. (Photo: AP)

“He’s shaky, as you can expect,” Amendola told WJAC-TV. “Being 67 years old, never having faced criminal charges in his life and having the distinguished career that he’s had, these are very serious allegations.”

Sandusky is charged with multiple counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, corruption of minors, endangering the welfare of a child, indecent assault and unlawful contact with a minor, as well as single counts of aggravated indecent assault and attempted indecent assault.

One accuser, now 27, testified that Sandusky initiated contact with a “soap battle” in the shower that led to multiple instances of involuntary sexual intercourse and indecent assault at Sandusky’s hands, the grand jury report said.

He said he traveled to charity functions and Penn State games with Sandusky. But when the boy resisted his advances, Sandusky threatened to send him home from the 1999 Alamo Bowl, the report said.

Sandusky also gave him clothes, shoes, a snowboard, golf clubs, hockey gear and football jerseys, and even guaranteed that he could walk on to the football team, the grand jury said. He testified that Sandusky once gave him $50 to buy marijuana, drove him to purchase it and then drove him home as the boy smoked the drug.

The first case to come to light was a boy who met Sandusky when he was 11 or 12, and physical contact began during his overnight stays at Sandusky’s house, the grand jury said. Eventually, the boy’s mother reported the sexual assault allegations to his high school, and Sandusky was banned from the child’s school district in Clinton County. That triggered the state investigation that culminated in charges Saturday.

But the report also alleges much earlier instances of abuse and details failed efforts to stop it by some who became aware of what was happening.

Another child, known only as a boy about 11 to 13, was seen by a janitor pinned against a wall while Sandusky performed oral sex on him in fall 2000, the grand jury said.

And in 2002, Kelly said, a graduate assistant saw Sandusky sexually assault a naked boy, estimated to be about 10 years old, in a team locker room shower. The grad student and his father reported what he saw to Paterno, who immediately told Curley, prosecutors said.

The two school administrators fielded the complaint from an unnamed graduate assistant and from Paterno. Two people familiar with the investigation confirmed the identity of the graduate assistant as Mike McQueary, now the team’s wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator. The two spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the names in the grand jury report haven’t been publicly released.

McQueary’s father, John, said his son was out of town on a recruiting trip Sunday, and he declined to comment about the case or say whether they were the two named in the grand jury report.

“I know it’s online, and I know it’s available,” John McQueary told the AP. “I have gone out of my way not to read it for a number of reasons.”

Curley and Schultz met with the graduate assistant about a week and a half after the attack was reported, Kelly said.

“Despite a powerful eyewitness statement about the sexual assault of a child, this incident was not reported to any law enforcement or child protective agency, as required by Pennsylvania law,” Kelly said.

There’s no indication that anyone at school attempted to find the boy or follow up with the witness, she said.

Schultz’s lawyer, Thomas J. Farrell, told The Associated Press on Sunday that the mandated reporting rules only apply to people who come into direct contact with children. He also said the statute of limitations for the summary offense with which Schultz is charged is two years, so it expired in 2004.

The grand jury report that lays out the accusations against the men cites the state’s Child Protective Services Law, which requires immediate reporting by doctors, nurses, school administrators, teachers, day care workers, police and others.

Neither Schultz nor Curley appear to have had direct contact with the boys Sandusky is accused of abusing, including the one involved in the eyewitness account prosecutors say they were given.

The law “applies only to children under the care and supervision of the organization for which he works, and that’s Penn State, it’s not The Second Mile,” Farrell said of his client. “This child, from what we know, was a Second Mile child.”

Messages left later Sunday seeking comment from Frederiksen with the attorney general’s office, and from Curley’s lawyer, Caroline Roberto, weren’t immediately returned. Farrell said it was accurate to say the allegations against Curley are legally flawed in the same manner.

Farrell said he plans to seek dismissal at the earliest opportunity. “Now, tomorrow is probably not the appropriate time,” Farrell said. “We’ll bring every legal challenge that is appropriate, and I think quite a few are appropriate.”

As a summary offense, failure to report suspected child abuse carries up to three months in jail and a $200 fine.

“As far as my research shows, there has never been a reported criminal decision under this statute, and the civil decisions go our way,” he said.

Curley and Schultz also are accused of perjury for their testimony to the grand jury that issued a 23-page report on the matter Friday, the day before state prosecutors charged them. Sandusky was arrested Saturday and charged with 40 criminal counts.

Curley denied that the assistant had reported anything of a sexual nature, calling it “merely `horsing around,’” the grand jury report said. But he also testified that he barred Sandusky from bringing children onto campus and that he advised Spanier of the matter.

The grand jury said Curley was lying, Kelly said, adding that it also deemed portions of Schultz’s testimony not to be credible.

Schultz told the jurors he also knew of a 1998 investigation involving sexually inappropriate behavior by Sandusky with a boy in the showers the football team used.

But despite his job overseeing campus police, he never reported the 2002 allegations to any authorities, “never sought or received a police report on the 1998 incident and never attempted to learn the identity of the child in the shower in 2002,” the jurors wrote. “No one from the university did so.”

Farrell said Schultz “should have been required only to report it to his supervisor, which he did.”

Schultz reports to Spanier, who testified before the grand jury that Schultz and Curley came to him with a report that a staff member was uncomfortable because he’d seen Sandusky “horsing around” with a boy. Spanier wasn’t charged.

About the perjury charge, Farrell said: “We’re going to have a lot of issues with that, both factual and legal. I think there’s a very strong defense here.”

The university is paying legal costs for Curley and Schultz because the allegations against them concern how they fulfilled their responsibilities as employees, spokeswoman Lisa Powers said.

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Genaro C. Armas in State College, Pa., contributed to this report.

Comments (44)

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  • deeberj
    Posted on November 7, 2011 at 2:49pm

    Here’s something from the state police commissioner in PA

    http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/video/6427260-web-extra-pa-state-police-commissioner-discusses-alleged-psu-sex-abuse-scandal-part-3/

    I am so disgusted and sick to my stomach about this. Why in the world didn’t those people who witnessed the sexual act happening scream and yell at the guy and call 911? Why did they not say anything, or the one guy reported it to his boss. I think that’s a 911 call.

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  • scoter
    Posted on November 7, 2011 at 1:30pm

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  • ProudTeaPartyMember
    Posted on November 7, 2011 at 1:28pm

    Paterno’s time to step down. He knew this was going on and didn’t notify the police. Time to leave Joey.

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  • kfouche
    Posted on November 7, 2011 at 11:56am

    If ever there was justification to shut down a football program this is it, I think the NCAA should shut down Penn State football immediately shut down Penn State football pending the investigation and then after Sandusky is found guilty sanction the school for 3 years and Paterno should have an asterisk by his name on every record he holds, he should be ineligible for any future honor. I think the ball players for Penn state should be absorbed by other teams and the staff should be fired as an example. These were pre-adolescent boys and Penn State gave Sandusky a free pass. He could molest any child and have no fear; no game is that important. The NCAA should act now, or does the NCAA condone pedophilia if necessary for business, I mean if necessary for “the game”.

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    • grayling646
      Posted on November 7, 2011 at 12:44pm

      Wow!!! Obama should hire you as our Judicial Czar. We could get rid of our Supreme Court and our entire judicial system. You have it all figured out by reading one article? Really?

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    • AchtungBecca
      Posted on November 7, 2011 at 1:01pm

      Wow, you have no idea how this works.

      The Monster will go to prison and die in the showers. Curley and the other guy will likely do prison time to. Joe Paterno will be done at the end of this season, his entire legacy disgraced by his inaction.

      But the program does not deserve the death penalty. The players have done NOTHING wrong. The program hasn’t violated ANY NCAA sanctions. Individuals associated with the program HAVE violated laws–both literal and moral. And they WILL be punished. But the NCAA has no grounds to do anything, period. Just like law enforcement had no grounds to go after USC or Ohio State when they violated NCAA rules.

      Separate issues. PSU’s rep has been tarnished. Spanier, Paterno, and anyone associate with the cover-up need to go. But the current and future players who have had NO involvement in this disgrace should be punished.

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  • snrar
    Posted on November 7, 2011 at 10:56am

    Evil is everywhere not just religious places ! These evil men must be held accountable and how many lives have they destroyed ! Joe Peterano is just as guilty for not going public with this .

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    • kfouche
      Posted on November 7, 2011 at 12:01pm

      yes paterno, and the school should be punished and then the football program should be disbanded for 3 years for its involvment in a criminal enterprise

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  • teddrunk
    Posted on November 7, 2011 at 10:51am

    Hey, Joe Pa can believably claim Alzheimer’s. That‘s convenient when you’re going through a scandal & coached until you’re 100.

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  • Pokerjoe
    Posted on November 7, 2011 at 10:14am

    Why would anyone in ther right mind cover this up? If so go to jail.

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    • db321
      Posted on November 7, 2011 at 10:18am

      I hope the NCAA investigates and throws the Death Penalty at the University Athletic departments – This one is going to be a hard one to fix even for a good Crisis Management Team.

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    • AchtungBecca
      Posted on November 7, 2011 at 1:04pm

      >>>I hope the NCAA investigates and throws the Death Penalty at the University Athletic departments – This one is going to be a hard one to fix even for a good Crisis Management Team.<<<

      Except the NCAA has zero grounds to throw sanctions at the team.

      The police can't arrest Jim Tressel for his involvement in the nonsense at Ohio State. And the NCAA can't sanction PSU for this. Separate matters.

      As a fan, I want those involved in this horrific case to get the book thrown at them, I want everything connected to Joe Paterno's tenure to be shown the door, but this simply has NOTHING to do with NCAA sanction. It's far worse–they've broken criminal laws.

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  • jado1981
    Posted on November 7, 2011 at 10:03am

    I was told a long time ago to “Never trust a white guy with a mustache, and never trust a black guy without one.” While it’s possibly racist in some eyes, it is funny. And in many cases, like this one, it’s true

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  • Charles
    Posted on November 7, 2011 at 9:56am

    These sports figures make me sick. They are held up as some kind of gods and in this sport they’re playing a game with a football. Colleges worship their sports teams. The admins who enabled him need prison time. Penn state needs to be financially eviscerated with lawsuits from these boys. The one who actually molested these boys, thus destroying their lives needs to be executed if found guilty in the court.

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  • teddrunk
    Posted on November 7, 2011 at 9:14am

    Democrat Whoopie Goldberg defended the abusers calling it a simple case of rape-rape.

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  • autigers2010champs
    Posted on November 7, 2011 at 9:04am

    Joe Pa has got to go also he was aware of this so Joe Pa we all know you are a 100 and have more wins than any other coach but not getting involved in this more well you got to go. Pedophile State University.

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  • knighttemplar999
    Posted on November 7, 2011 at 9:01am

    Penn state should be made to change their team name to the Penn State Perverts and have a pervert costume for their mascot. Look at the pictures above, those guys have the look of perverts themselves. Ha, Sandusky even wrote a book called TOUCHED, that’s creepy, probably the old pervert was arrogantly bragging about his exploits by naming his book that. Penn State should be banned from intercollegiate sports for the next 100 years.

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  • cyclops
    Posted on November 7, 2011 at 8:57am

    Sad day for one of the powerhouses in college football but I do hope that justice will be served promptly to those affected by this ugly revelation……

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  • Doug in Seattle
    Posted on November 7, 2011 at 8:48am

    Sex scandal? This is about a predator being given a free pass by Penn State officials. It is a criminal offense not some minor scandal.

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  • TheValley
    Posted on November 7, 2011 at 8:46am

    Mattyboy, Teddrunk and PA PAtriot, you three haven’t got a clue as to the whole story, the better half works there, just because you guys have something against Penn State, you should be jumping to conclusions and becoming your own judge and jury, you guys have not the slightest clue, you should keep your traps shut, and listen as EVIDENCE is presented, you don’t get to decide.

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    • PA PATRIOT
      Posted on November 7, 2011 at 9:05am

      HV Camper
      The word on this story has been out of Beaver Stadium for years.
      As Mattyboy said, you cannot believe that you idolized a child molester.
      Furthermore your are broken about what your hearing and especially reading.
      I do not feel sorry for you.
      There are other institutions of higher learning in PA that suffer because of Main Campus.
      The AGs office is going to open a field office on Old Main.

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    • teddrunk
      Posted on November 7, 2011 at 9:06am

      I was making a statement regarding that little will happen to these suspects, even if they’re found guilty. PA has so many Democrats. Democrats enjoy abusing children. So those that do have friends in high places.

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    • Charles
      Posted on November 7, 2011 at 10:01am

      Penn state needs to be financially destroyed by lawsuits on behalf of the young men whos lives have been destroyed by the child molester they supported and covered for. Being a homosexual child molester makes him even worse.

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    • PA PATRIOT
      Posted on December 29, 2011 at 6:20am

      10 boys so far, how many victims is it going to take for you to come out of your PSU Dream

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  • Mattyboy
    Posted on November 7, 2011 at 8:34am

    So, how do you feel now after worshipping child molesters? Paterno must step down if he knew about this and did not report. He has a obligation as a public employee and as a decent human being to do so. Good Bye Paterno.

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  • teddrunk
    Posted on November 7, 2011 at 8:30am

    Little will be done to these vermin preying on children. They sound like the NAMBLA crowd, which are supported by all Democrats. In fact, the pedophile hiding Planned Parenthood is also supported by all Democrats. Democrats have a long tradition of supporting and defending those that harm children.

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  • PA PATRIOT
    Posted on November 7, 2011 at 8:08am

    Anything for Penn State Football….
    Anythng…
    Tax Money, No salary disclosures, Silence the public,
    The PA Attorney Generals Office is going to bring this whole program to its knees.
    Finally
    Not all Pennsylvanians think the sky is blue and clouds are white because of PSU.

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  • critterbait
    Posted on November 7, 2011 at 8:02am

    When opening a can of wroms better be ready with a net cause there is more fish to catch.

    BUT IT”S LONG OVER DUE FOR THESE SICKCOS TO BE PUT IN JAIL….

    Gives one HOPE that our laws still may have a chance to work …

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  • hitofly
    Posted on November 7, 2011 at 7:59am

    Look how young that finance VP is and he is going back into retirement??

    Shows how we taxpayers are getting hosed by these public employees. What a racket working for a public university.

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  • saintsandsons
    Posted on November 7, 2011 at 7:58am

    Joe Paterno should be held accountable as much if not more than the AD and the VP. Reporting the eyewitness account to his boss then going on as if none of this matters to him is abhorant! First, reporting to the police is the law! Second, as a Catholic, and well aware of our own scandals in our church, Paterno should have reflexively reported what he knew to the police. Child abuse is not, never was, simply an inhouse matter – even if it were only “suspected” or “fooling around”.

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  • grudgywoof
    Posted on November 7, 2011 at 7:50am

    The darkness of a mans heart knows no depth. The selfishness that would allow a man to use another human being for his own pleasure is mind boggling to me. Luke 17:2 says It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.
    He will be tourchered and die in prison and that’s still not good enough.

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  • marybethelizabeth
    Posted on November 7, 2011 at 7:42am

    You can count on theblaze to get the story wrong.

    The story is not that the AD left his post, the story is that he is being prosecuted for perjury.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on November 7, 2011 at 7:40am

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    And in 2002, Kelly said, a graduate assistant saw Sandusky sexually assault a naked boy, estimated to be about 10 years old, in a team locker room shower. The grad student and his father reported what he saw to Paterno, who immediately told Curley, prosecutors said.

    Paterno knew in 2002, why was he QUIET? This just makes me sick. Our 13 mo old grandson was beaten not assaulted, and the guy got 90 days. Would not surprise me at all if they get away with it.

    Joe Paterno knew and sat quiet. Sorry to say JOE MUST GO…………..

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    • teddrunk
      Posted on November 7, 2011 at 10:28am

      A 10 year old is being assaulted and a supposed man allowed it to continue and simply reported it?!!??
      How about stopping it!

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  • On The Bayou
    Posted on November 7, 2011 at 7:34am

    Any person that preys on children should be put to death.

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    • minorityconservative2
      Posted on November 7, 2011 at 7:56am

      I wish the law would allow that. If there is one thing worse than murder it is hurting an innocent child. These people don’t change. No amount of locking them up helps. They come out and do it again till they die.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on November 7, 2011 at 9:18am

      A swift death for those perverts,they can’t be fixed you gotta put em down.

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    • Callisto
      Posted on November 7, 2011 at 10:23am

      They did it in the Old Testament. No screwing around with appeals there. lol

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