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发帖数: 77 | 1 A chronological look at the case against former Penn State assistant
football coach Jerry Sandusky, based on a grand jury report in Pennsylvania
state court. Some key dates in Penn State football history are included.
Sandusky has been charged with 40 criminal counts, accusing him of serial
sex abuse of minors.
1969: Jerry Sandusky starts his coaching career at Penn State University as
a defensive line coach.
1977: Jerry Sandusky founds The Second Mile. It begins as a group foster
home dedicated to helping troubled boys and grows into a charity dedicated
to helping children with absent or dysfunctional families.
January 1983: Associated Press voters select Penn State as college football'
s national champion for the 1982 season.
January 1987: Associated Press voters select Penn State as college football'
s national champion for the 1986 season.
1994: Boy known as Victim 7 in the report meets Sandusky through The Second
Mile program at about the age of 10.
1994-95: Boy known as Victim 6 meets Sandusky at a Second Mile picnic at
Spring Creek Park when he is 7 or 8 years old.
1995-96: Boy known as Victim 5, meets Sandusky through The Second Mile when
he is 7 or 8, in second or third grade.
1996-97: Boy known as Victim 4, at the age of 12 or 13, meets Sandusky while
he is in his second year participating in The Second Mile program.
1996-98: Victim 5 is taken to the locker rooms and showers at Penn State by
Sandusky when he is 8 to 10 years old.
Jan. 1, 1998: Victim 4 is listed, along with Sandusky's wife, as a member of
Sandusky's family party for the 1998 Outback Bowl.
1998: Victim 6 is taken into the locker rooms and showers when he is 11
years old. When Victim 6 is dropped off at home, his hair is wet from
showering with Sandusky. His mother reports the incident to the university
police, who investigate.
Detective Ronald Schreffler testifies that he and State College Police
Department Detective Ralph Ralston, with the consent of the mother of Victim
6, eavesdrop on two conversations the mother of Victim 6 has with Sandusky.
Sandusky says he has showered with other boys and Victim 6's mother tries
to make Sandusky promise never to shower with a boy again but he will not.
At the end of the second conversation, after Sandusky is told he cannot see
Victim 6 anymore, Schreffler testifies Sandusky says, "I understand. I was
wrong. I wish I could get forgiveness. I know I won't get it from you. I
wish I were dead."
Jerry Lauro, an investigator with the Pennsylvania Department of Public
Welfare, testifies he and Schreffler interviewed Sandusky, and that Sandusky
admits showering naked with Victim 6, admits to hugging Victim 6 while in
the shower and admits that it was wrong.
The case is closed after then-Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar
decides there will be no criminal charge.
June 1999: Sandusky retires from Penn State but still holds emeritus status.
Dec. 28, 1999: Victim 4 is listed, along with Sandusky's wife, as a member
of Sandusky's family party for the 1999 Alamo Bowl.
Summer 2000: Boy known as Victim 3 meets Sandusky through The Second Mile
when he is between seventh and eighth grade.
Fall 2000: A janitor named James Calhoun observes Sandusky in the showers of
the Lasch Football Building with a young boy -- known as Victim 8 -- pinned
up against the wall and performing oral sex on the boy. He tells other
janitorial staff immediately. Fellow Office of Physical Plant employee
Ronald Petrosky cleans the showers at Lasch and sees Sandusky and the boy,
who he describes as being between the ages of 11 and 13.
Calhoun tells other physical plant employees what he saw, including Jay
Witherite, his immediate supervisor. Witherite tells him to whom he should
report the incident. Calhoun was a temporary employee and never makes a
report. Victim 8's identity is unknown.
March 1, 2002: A Penn State graduate assistant enters the locker room at the
Lasch Football Building. In the showers, he sees a naked boy, known as
Victim 2, whose age he estimates to be 10 years old, being subjected to anal
intercourse by a naked Sandusky. The graduate assistant tells his father
immediately.
March 2, 2002: In the morning, the graduate assistant calls coach Joe
Paterno and goes to Paterno's home, where he reports what he has seen.
March 3, 2002: Paterno calls Tim Curley, Penn State athletic director, to
his home the next day and reports a version of what the grad assistant had
said.
March 2002: Later in the month the graduate assistant is called to a meeting
with Curley and Senior Vice President for Finance and Business Gary Schultz
. The grad assistant reports what he has seen and Curley and Schultz say
they will look into it.
March 27, 2002 (approximate): The graduate assistant hears from Curley. He
is told that Sandusky's locker room keys are taken away and that the
incident has been reported to The Second Mile. The graduate assistant is
never questioned by university police and no other entity conducts an
investigation until the graduate assistant testifies in Grand Jury in
December 2010.
2005-2006: Boy known as Victim 1 says that meets Sandusky through The Second
Mile at age 11 or 12.
Spring 2007: During the 2007 track season, Sandusky begins spending time
with Victim 1 weekly, having him stay overnight at his residence in College
Township, Pa.
Spring 2008: Termination of contact with Victim 1 occurs when he is a
freshman in a Clinton County high school. After the boy's mother calls the
school to report sexual assault, Sandusky is barred from the school district
attended by Victim 1 from that day forward and the matter is reported to
authorities as mandated by law.
Early 2009: An investigation by the Pennsylvania attorney general begins
when a Clinton County, Pa. teen boy tells authorities that Sandusky has
inappropriately touched him several times over a four-year period.
September 2010: Sandusky retires from day-to-day involvement with The Second
Mile, saying he wants to spend more time with family and handle personal
matters.
Nov. 5, 2011: Sandusky is arrested and released on $100,000 bail after being
arraigned on 40 criminal counts.
Nov. 7, 2011: Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly says Paterno is not
a target of the investigation into how the school handled the accusations.
But she refuses to say the same for university President Graham Spanier.
Curley and Schultz, who have stepped down from their positions, surrender on
charges that they failed to alert police to complaints against Sandusky.
Nov. 8, 2011: Possible ninth victim of Sandusky contacts state police as
calls for ouster of Paterno and Spanier grow in state and beyond. Penn State
abruptly cancels Paterno's regular weekly press conference.
Nov. 9, 2011: Paterno announces he'll retire at the end of the season. |
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