The Penn State indictment: What the grand jury alleges in sex-abuse case involving Jerry Sandusky
Former Penn State football defensive coordinator Gerald (Jerry) Sandusky sits in a car as he leaves the office of Centre County Magisterial District Judge Leslie A. Dutchcot on Saturday, in State College, Pa. Sandusky is charged with sexually abusing eight young men. Also, Penn State athletic director Tim Curley and Penn State vice president for finance and business Gary Schultz, 62, are expected to turn themselves in on charges of perjury and failure to report under Pennsylvania's child protective services law in connection with the investigation into the abuse allegations against Sandusky.
Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno has not been charged with any criminal wrongdoing. But questions have arisen about his actions in 2002 after a graduate student reported seeing assistant coach Jerry Sandusky having sex with a boy in a school shower. According to the indictment from the grand jury:
A graduate assistant claimed he caught Sandusky assaulting a 10-year-old boy in the showers. Athletic Director Timothy Curley, and Gary Schultz, who oversees the Penn State Police Dept. are charged with failing to act after the incident was reported to them.
Here's what the grand jury alleges happened to that boy and seven others, referred to as Victims 1 through 8.
• PDF: Indictment against Jerry Sandusky
Victim 1: Said he was 11 or 12 when he met Sandusky in 2005 or 2006. Beginning in 2007, he said, Sandusky began inviting him to stay overnight at his home. In a basement bedroom, Sandusky kissed and fondled him, performed oral sex on him more than 20 times and made the boy reciprocate once.
Victim 2: In March 2002, graduate assistant Mike McQueary walked into a locker room one Friday night and heard rhythmic slapping sounds. He looked into the shower and saw a boy of about 10, with his hands up against the wall. A naked Sandusky was having intercourse with him. The assistant left. The next day, he reported the incident to Paterno. On Sunday, Paterno told Penn State athletic director Tim Curley that McQueary had seen Sandusky "fondling or doing something of a sexual nature to a young boy." Curley and Gary Schultz, Penn State's senior vice president of finance and business, talked to McQueary about 10 days later. About two weeks later, Curley told McQueary that Sandusky's keys to the locker room had been taken away. The grand jury said police and child welfare agencies were never notified, and the officials made no attempt to identify the boy.
Victim 3: Said he was between seventh and eighth grade in 2000 when he met Sandusky. He was invited to spend the night at Sandusky's house, where he said Sandusky repeatedly hugged him, gave him back rubs, blew on his stomach and, twice, fondled his genitals.
Victim 4: Said he was 12 or 13 in 1996 or 1997 when Sandusky began inviting him to spend the night. He described repeated acts of oral sex and fondling, and said Sandusky gave him dozens of gifts and guaranteed him he would be a walk-on player for Penn State.
Victim 5: Said he was 8 to 10 when Sandusky began inviting him to events in 1996-98. He said Sandusky showered with him, repeatedly hugged and touched him and forced the boy to fondle him.
Victim 6: Said he was 11 in 1998 when he went to work out with Sandusky. Afterward, Sandusky showered with him in a college locker room, hugging and washing him. The boy later told his mother, who reported it to university police. They investigated, but dropped the case after the Centre County District Attorney decided not to file charges.
Victim 7: Said he was about 10 when he met Sandusky in 1994. He also was invited to events, and said Sandusky hugged him, showered with him and tried to put his hands in the boy's pants.
Victim 8: In fall 2000, a Penn State janitor reported he saw Sandusky in a shower room, performing oral sex on a boy who was pinned against the wall. He told other janitors and a supervisor, but made no official report. The grand jury could not identify the boy.
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