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Penn State President 'appalled' By Media Reports On Paterno


Champ Kind
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2016-05-09T060239Z_3_LYNXNPEC470H4_RTROPTP_2_PENNSYLVANIA-SANDUSKY.JPG(Reuters) - The president of Penn State said on Sunday he was appalled by the media coverage surrounding allegations the university's late head football coach Joe Paterno knew about child sex abuse by his assistant coach as far back as the mid-1970s. New allegations about Paterno, a legendary figure at Penn State and still revered by many supporters, surfaced last week in court documents in a civil case over settlements with victims of his assistant Jerry Sandusky. Paterno, who died in January 2012, was fired in 2011 after disclosures that he knew Sandusky sexually abused a young boy in the school's football showers in 2002 and that, while he told university officials, he failed to notify police.

 

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