Witness testimony: Schiano, Bradley knew about Sandusky abuse

In addition to former Penn State head coach Joe Paterno and former Penn State and current UCLA assistant Tom Bradley, former Penn State assistant and current Ohio State defensive coordinator Greg Schiano is also named.

According to the same unsealed documents, Sandusky sexually assaulted a 14-year-old boy who attended a football camp held at Penn State in 1976.

” ‘Is it accurate that Coach Paterno quickly said to you, “I don’t want to hear about any of that kind of stuff, I have a football season to worry about?”.

Barring a last-minute appeal, a Philadelphia judge is poised to unseal documents from an insurance lawsuit that could shed new light on allegations a boy told Penn State coach Joe Paterno in 1976 that assistant coach Jerry Sandusky molested him. The testimony was collected in 2014, but was only unsealed Tuesday by court order.

More recently, more than 200 former lettermen from the university’s football team sent a letter to Penn State’s board of trustees and university President Eric Barron asking that the statue be restored to a place of honor.

Paterno died in 2012 after being fired. The interesting part of these new findings is that these records imply that Paterno knew of the sexual abuse well before when he had previously claimed to have known about the abuse in 1998.

The unsealed documents suggest other Penn State personnel directly witnessed Sandusky’s misconduct but failed to do anything about it. The court documents were just recently unsealed because of a “legal dispute between the university and an insurance company over the responsibility for almost $93 million the school paid in settlements with victims”, according to The Washington Post.

In the last interview before his death, former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno told the Post’s Sally Jenkins he had no knowledge of accusations of child molestation involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

Q: “Did he identify who the other coaches were that had given him this information?”

The records include excerpts from depositions given by accusers who contend they reported abuse to Paterno or members of his staff in the 1970s and ’80s.

Doe 150 said that Paterno then walked away. “Some individuals deny the claims, and others are unable to defend themselves”.

Sandusky, who worked under Paterno for thirty years, was convicted in 2012 on charges that he sexually abused 10 boys between 1994 and 2008. In a separate letter, an attorney hired by PMA to review Penn State’s settlement payments deemed the amount the university paid to the victims to be “high and in some cases extremely high”. He said Penn State was diligent in making sure the claims were backed up by sufficient proof.

Paterno’s knowledge of Sandusky’s behavior decades before his arrest is the biggest takeaway here.