Penn State reaches settlement with Sandusky victim
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
Pennsylvania State University has agreed to a multimillion-dollar settlement with a 25-year-old man who was sexually abused by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky in a campus shower.
It is the first of 26 claims to be settled in the Sandusky scandal, with the others expected early next week. The university has approved spending $60 million for the payouts.
The man, known as Victim 5 in court proceedings, was assaulted by Sandusky in August 2001, six months after then-graduate assistant Michael McQueary reported to university officials that he saw Sandusky rape a boy in a campus shower.
Because the assault occurred so soon after the McQueary report and took place on campus, it was considered pivotal in reaching a settlement agreement with other victims, said Michael K. Rozen, a lawyer hired by the university to help settle the cases.
Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20130818_Penn_State_reaches_settlement_with_Sandusky_victim.html
The AP has a timeline of the scandal up to Oct. 2012.
Sara Ganim, the reporter who exposed it all about Sandusky in 2011, wrote this for the June 14, 2012 Patriot-News about Victim 5's testimony during the Sandusky trial: Jerry Sandusky trial: Alleged Victim 5 says Sandusky tried to touch him in shower
= new reply since forum marked as read
