PENNSYLVANIA
The Neuberger Firm
Posted by Tom Neuberger
at January 3, 2013
Like the Grinch who stole Christmas, Pennsylvania Governor Thomas Corbett has stolen the joy survivors world-wide experienced when Penn State University as an institution accepted responsibility for childhood sexual abuse within its football program and agree to pay stiff financial penalties as penance for its crimes of omission.
Earlier this year Penn State accepted $60 million in fines imposed by the NCAA on its football program because of its alleged complicity in the sexual crimes committed on children by one of its football coaches and the failure of other coaches and University staff to protect children. The extent of Penn State’s responsibility was set out in great detail in the Freeh Report prepared by the former director of the F.B.I., Louis J. Freeh, who is also a retired federal judge.
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