2 Penn State officials tied to sex abuse case step down
(CNN) -- Two Penn State university officials who are accused of misleading a grand jury in its investigation into child sexual abuse allegations against former coach Jerry Sandusky have stepped down, the university said early Monday morning.
Penn State Athletic Director Timothy Curley, 57, and Gary Schultz, 62, the university's senior vice president for finance and business, face charges of one count of perjury each.
They stepped down late Sunday after an emergency meeting of the university's board of trustees.
They are expected to turn themselves in Monday.
Curley and Schultz "allegedly failed to report the sexual assault of a young boy after the information was brought to their attention, and later made false statements to a grand jury that was investigating a series of assaults on young boys," Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly said over the weekend.
Earlier, Penn State President Graham Spanier said Curley and Schultz have his "unconditional support."
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| Penn State's Timothy Curley, left, and Gary Schultz |
"I have complete confidence in how they have handled the allegations about a former university employee," he said, adding that the charges are "groundless."
Curley requested to be placed on administrative leave so he could devote time needed to defend himself, the university said Monday. Schultz will go into retirement, it said.
The man at the center of the case is former assistant football coach Sandusky, 67, who served 23 years as defensive coordinator for the Nittany Lions.
Sandusky allegedly engaged in fondling, oral sex and anal sex with young boys over a period of more than 10 years, according to an investigative grand jury's summary of testimony.
I wonder if they'd have perjured themselves for an English professor instead of a football coach...
ReplyDeleteNo, actually, I don't wonder at all.
The guy on the left looks like the eHarmony geezer, the one on the right "Cop No. 3" in some crime movie.
ReplyDelete@Strel: yeah. I'm assuming the prosecutor's office grabbed the pictures from some website. If they're mug shots; the two deserve to be fired immediately for having no sense of adapting behavior to context (actually the story says they hadn't turned themselves in yet at the time it was written, so that's the case).
ReplyDeleteWhatever else he's done (or not), Schultz is guilty of having a very odd mustache (and eyebrows to match -- but I'm not one to throw stones when it comes to eyebrows, while the mustache is a choice).
@Stella: I'm not wondering either (though it did take my grad university longer than it should have to get rid of an English proffie who raped a grad student. But that was more head in the sand and legal thickets than support for the perpetrator).