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Jerry Sandusky has done so much damage to Penn State and all the victims that he abused and this could all be avoided if some people were not covering for him.  There is also a finical cost for the university. Dan Shallman, a partner at O'Melveny & Myers LLP in Los Angeles, estimates that costs associated with the scandal could reach $100 million. It cost the coach with the most wins ever in division one football history his job.  There is so much disturbing information about this case. I just hope something like this never happens again because it is very heartbreaking. 

There are so many details to this elaborate story. In 1994, A boy identified as Victim 7 in the grand jury report meets Sandusky through the Second Mile program.Victim 7 says that after a couple of years in the program, he often spent Friday nights at Sandusky's house and attended football games with him the next day. He says Sandusky touched him in ways that made him uncomfortable, primarily during car rides and when the two showered after a workout. 1998, An 11-year-old boy returns home with wet hair after an outing with Sandusky. Victim 6 tells his mother he took a shower with Sandusky and that the coach hugged him several times. The boy's mother contacts university police, triggering an investigation. Sandusky later admits to hugging the boy in the shower, and says he will not shower with children again.

In 1999, Sandusky retired from Penn State's football program but was still allowed him access to campus facilities, including the locker room and an office in the Football Building. In 2000 Jim Calhoun (a janitor at the football building) tells his supervisor that he saw Sandusky engaged in sexual activity with a boy in the assistant coaches' shower. Jim Calhoun was concerned that they might lose their jobs if they spoke out about what had happened.In 2002, A graduate assistant Mike McQueary,  reported seeing Sandusky sexually assaulting a boy in the showers at the Football Building on the Penn State campus. The assault on the boy, was reported to Paterno the next day. Paterno, in turn, passes the information to Curley (Penn State’s Athletic director) one day later.

Many people were  fired/ resigned because of this scandal. On November 6, Curley(athletic director) and Schultz (the senior vice president for finance and business) were fired from their university. On November. 7, Curley and Schultz are arraigned on charges of making false statements to the grand jury and failing to report the possible abuse of a child. Than on  November 9,  the Penn State Board of Trustees announces that it has fired both Paterno and school president Graham Spanier. November. 11, Penn State places McQueary on administrative leave.

This scandal will also have a huge impact on the finical side for Penn State. Penn State could easily spend $500,000 or more per criminal defendant .The school has said it will cover the legal expenses for former athletic director Tim Curley and university administrator Gary Schultz. In 2009 the Penn State's football program's economic value at $99 million (only behind Texas and Notre Dame among FBS programs). It is predicted that the scandal could have an immediate $10 million impact in lost sponsorships and donations.