The role that Penn State University officials, including former head football coach Joe Paterno, played in the sexual abuse of children by former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky will be brought into full view today as the school's eight-month investigation into the scandal is finally released to the public.
A report from the investigation will be released online at 9 a.m. today, and will be followed by a 10 a.m. presentation by former FBI director Louis Freeh, who led the investigation. The Penn State Board of Trustees hired Freeh in the wake of Sandusky's arrest after questions arose over how university officials acted when told of Sandusky's crimes.
Former athletic director Tim Curley and former vice president for finance Gary Schultz were also arrested ion connection to the Sandusky case, and charged with not reporting an alleged incident of abuse in 2001 to the police. They are charged with lying about their knowledge to the Pennsylvania grand jury.
Both men have maintained their innocence and are still months away from trial.
Paterno and former university president Graham Spanier were never charged criminally in the case, but Paterno was fired and Spanier resigned just days after Sandusky's arrest when the Board of Trustees decided they had not done enough to stop Sandusky.
Spanier has said that he was never told about a specific allegation against Sandusky of child sex abuse. Paterno, who died in January, said that he told his supervisors what he knew about a 2001 allegation, and left it up to them to decide what to do.
The report is expected to answer nagging questions about how much Paterno knew about the accusations against Sandusky and whether he and his supervisors chose not to report those allegations to police as part of a "cover- up."
Paterno's family released a statement Wednesday in anticipation of the investigation's findings, saying that Paterno had already acknowledged that he wished he had done more with the allegation against Sandusky.
"To this point, Joe Paterno is the only person who publicly acknowledged that with the benefit of hindsight he wished he had done more. This was an honest and courageous admission that a true leader must assume a measure of responsibility when something goes wrong on his watch," it read. "The sad and frightening fact is Jerry Sandusky was a master deceiver."
Sandusky was convicted in June on 45 counts of child abuse, many of which took place on Penn State's campus.
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