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Noting a surprising lack of documentation, the lawyer wrote, "It appears as though Penn State made little effort, if any, to verify the credibility of the claims. Calls to Pa. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
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Erickson said that under the circumstances, "we had our backs to the wall," and he had no choice but to accept the consent decree since it was the only deal on offer. While Matthew originally took his adopted father's side when he was first questioned by the grand jury, he later revealed that Sandusky had started to sexually abuse him when he was 8 years old.
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The grand jury's report, released in August , was the broadest examination by a government agency in the United States of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. We have over the course of the last 30 years, for sure, been transparent about everything that has in fact been transpiring.
Philadelphia native "Smokin'" Joe Frazier, the former heavyweight champ and first boxer to beat Muhammad Ali, died of liver cancer at Bishop Gainer in Harrisburg recently ordered that the names of accused priests and of bishops who mishandled abuse cases be taken down from all church buildings in the diocese.
I just came from Italy last month. Nearly priests and lay people have been publicly identified in Pennsylvania for having credible allegations of child sexual assault made against them.