Posted on 06/02/2017 11:26:33 AM PDT by Wolfie
Judge slams Paterno, McQueary as he sends Spanier, Curley and Schultz to jail over Sandusky child-sex case
Senior Judge John Boccabella spared no one, not even Mike McQueary or Joe Paterno, as he sentenced former Penn State President Graham Spanier and two of his top aides to prison Friday for fumbling a chance in 2001 to stop child-sex predator Jerry Sandusky.
Spanier, former PSU Athletic Director Tim Curley, ex-vice president Gary Schultz, Paterno or McQueary, the man who claimed he saw Sandusky molesting a young boy in a university shower room, could stopped Sandusky with a single phone call to the cops, Boccabella said.
Yet, he observed, none of them even tried to dial the number. Instead, Boccabella noted, Spanier, Curley and Schultz decided to do nothing.
"Why no one made a phone call to the police...is beyond me. Why Mr. Sandusky was allowed to continue to use the Penn State facilities is beyond me," Boccabella said. "Mr. Paterno, the legendary football football coach, could have made that phone call without so much as getting his hands dirty."
Former Penn State leaders Tim Curley, Graham Spanier and Gary Schultz will serve prison terms for failing to report a possible child-sex incident involving Jerry Sandusky in 2001
Spanier, former PSU Athletic Director Tim Curley, ex-vice president Gary Schultz, Paterno or McQueary, the man who claimed he saw Sandusky molesting a young boy in a university shower room, could stopped Sandusky with a single phone call to the cops, Boccabella said.
Yet, he observed, none of them even tried to dial the number. Instead, Boccabella noted, Spanier, Curley and Schultz decided to do nothing.
"Why no one made a phone call to the police...is beyond me. Why Mr. Sandusky was allowed to continue to use the Penn State facilities is beyond me," Boccabella said. "Mr. Paterno, the legendary football football coach, could have made that phone call without so much as getting his hands dirty."
Perhaps the most surprising facet of Friday's 2 1/2-hour hearing was that Spanier, the only one of three former Penn State administrators to go to trial, received the lightest prison term on his child endangerment conviction.
Boccabella, who called Spanier's situation a "Shakespearean tragedy," sentenced the 69-year-old to 4 to 12 months in prison, followed by 2 years of probation. He ordered Spanier to spend 2 months behind bars, followed by another four months on house arrest. And he hit him with a $7,500 fine.
The judge told Spanier he was convinced he relied too heavily on the information Curley and Schultz provided him after McQueary reported the shower room incident "and that may have been a mistake."
"I'm not so sure that you were totally responsible for the lack of action," Boccabella said.
It didn't go so easy for Schultz and Curley, even though both men pleaded guilty to child endangerment charges and testified for the prosecution during Spanier's Dauphin County trial in March.
Unlike Spanier, who displayed little visible emotion, Curley and Schultz both wept as they asked Boccabella for mercy.
The judge hit Curley the hardest, imposing a 7- to 23-month jail term, with the last four months of it to be on house arrest. Curley too received 2 years of probation and a $5,000 fine.
Boccabella was openly skeptical about Curley's testimony during the trial that he didn't recall specifics about some of the conversations that led to the decision not to sic the cops and child welfare authorities on Sandusky in 2001. "I was unimpressed by your testimony during the trial," the judge said.
"You probably made the most glaring error because this (athletics) was your bailiwick," Boccabella added.
The judge said he was impressed by Schultz's remorse when he imposed a 6- to 23-month jail term, of which Schultz will spend 4 months on house arrest. His fine and probation will be the same as Curley's.
If my memory is correct, Paterno did report an incident to higher ups in the college.
The former Expos great?
“If my memory is correct, Paterno did report an incident to higher ups in the college.”
Were the number 9, 1 & 1 buttons broken in Joe’s phone?
For allowing a child being raped to continue? No effing way! I would have stopped it even at the risk of my life.
God almighty. Where did you get your values from?
That was not my point.
From memory, the University legal counsel was a Black female, and she could have been charged with the same crimes as the three men she testified against.
But no charges were filed against her, and, as far as I know, the state Bar took no action against her, either.
Also, the state had to drop at least one charge against the three men because she was a University attorney.
Bottom Line - the three men were charged and convicted because they were senior executives.
McQueary got $12 million for testifying against them.
The staff lawyer avoided prosecution and kept her law license by testifying against them.
And the anonymous shower victim, who, as I recall, never testified under oath against anybody, but who received a multi-million dollar insurance payment, also helped to enrage the jury that convicted former Penn State President Spanier of a misdemeanor.
Thats it. Start attacking me now. Liberal much?
Crummy try.
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