The infamous Penn State child sex abuse scandal continues when Graham Spanier, the former president of the university, announced Thursday that he plans to sue the lead FBI director on the case for libel and defamation.
The FBI director, Louis Freeh, was hired by the university in 2011 to investigate the case and find out who exactly was involved in the cover-up of the abuse by convicted sex offender and former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
According to Business Week, Freeh clearly did the job he was hired to do and now agrees with the changes the school has implemented after the scandal.
“Over the past year, Penn State has made a dedicated effort to reform the problems that led to Mr. Sandusky’s ability to victimize children on the university campus,” Freeh said. “I trust the changes and improvements that Penn State has put in place will help to build a constructive and protective environment where children will not again suffer abuse.”
Freeh had a hard job to do because he exposed the high-powered administration figures of the well-known football program that were involved in the cover-up.
ESPN reports that Gary Schultz, the ex-Vice President in charge of the campus police and Timothy Curley, the former athletic director of the program, were fired in 2011 and charged with failure to report abuse. Spanier, on the other hand, was also fired in 2011 but was not charged with endangering the welfare of a child until a year later.
Legendary football coach Joe Paterno was fired in 2011 but was never charged because he died in January 2012 due to complications from lung cancer.
Sandusky, 69, was convicted on 45 counts of child sex abuse and is in prison for a minimum of 30 years. He still denies the allegations.
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