Several weeks after a judge revealed in an insurance dispute that Penn State officials may have known convicted serial child molester Jerry Sandusky abused children as early as the 1970s, these older claims are now at issue in a related defamation suit the family of Joe Paterno filed against the NCAA.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association, the governing body for college athletics, recently subpoenaed Penn State for all “testimony, statements, and accounts” of persons alleging they were abused in 1971 and 1976. The university this week asked the court to quash the subpoenas, claiming that release of the documents would be an invasion of the accusers’ privacy. Those accusers filed motions Wednesday aimed at protecting their identities.
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