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Media Questioning Penn State 1998 Investigation

Will campus police now get pulled into the sex abuse scandal?

By Robin Hattersley Gray | November 10, 2011 | Comments (0) | Post a comment

In response to the Penn State child sex abuse scandal, the New York Times just ran an article on Penn State campus police's 1998 investigation into allegations that Jerry Sandusky had engaged in inappropriate and possible sexual conduct with a boy in the facility's showers.

The case was eventually closed after the alleged victim and a second potential victim, as well as Sandusky were interviewed by a Penn State police investigator and state welfare investigator. The state welfare investigator told the news source that all the child told him at the time was "that Sandusky showered with him, and it made him uncomfortable."

The investigator suggested that the alleged victim, who is now an adult, told the grand jury a much more explicit account.

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Michael  Dorn
Michael Dorn

Michael Dorn serves as the Executive Director of Safe Havens International, a global non profit campus safety center. During his 30 year campus safety career, Michael has served as a university police officer, corporal, sergeant and lieutenant. The author of 25 books on school safety, his work has taken him to Central America, Mexico, Canada, Europe, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East.

Robin Hattersley Gray
Robin Hattersley Gray

Robin has been covering the security and campus public safety industries since 1998 and is a specialist in emerging technologies and systems integration. She joined CS in 2005 and has authored award-winning editorials on important campus safety issues, including gang prevention, grants and funding, network integration, IP video, emergency notification, emergency management and communications, crime trends and risk management.