University trustees later said that one of the reasons they had removed Joe Paterno was his handling of the 2001 complaint by another assistant who had seen Sandusky molesting a boy in a shower in the team’s locker room. Joe Paterno was never charged with a crime, but a university-commissioned review of the scandal concluded that he and the other administrators had remained silent out of a concern for bad publicity. View all New York Times newsletters. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyJay Paterno has been a fierce defender of his father. A bronze statue of Joe Paterno was removed from outside Beaver Stadium in 2012 in the aftermath of the Sandusky scandal.

Source: New York Times May 06, 2017 00:11 UTC