Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

CNN: Paterno may have known before ’01

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any other time,” the report states, according to 15 years, including three CNN. victims after the 2001 CNN said the police report locker room incident witnessed also notes, according by Mr.to Mr. McQueary, that McQueary. Sandusky is Mr. Paterno told the serving a sentence of at young assistant that his least 30 years in prison. An wife, Sue Paterno, once appeal is pending. had told the head coach

The CNN report was that Sandusky’s wife, Dottie written by Sara Ganim, Sandusky, “told her who as a reporter for The Jerry doesn’t like girls.” (Harrisburg) PatriotSco­tt Paterno, one of News, broke the story the legendary coach’s about Sandusky’s abuse sons, took to Twitter to of children. blast the story’s credibilit­y.

For her coverage of the Sandusky child sex “To be clear: Sara abuse scandal, she and Ganim and @CNN is using the newspaper’s staff triple hearsay to get won the 2012 Pulitzer clicks and it’s false. And Prize for Local Reporting. enough is enough,” he wrote.

According to the CNN Also, “It’s pure crap. story, Mr. McQueary told Dottie never said anything state police in 2011 that of the sort to Sue. he had visited Mr. Sara is trying to get clicks Paterno on a Saturday to keep her job as she has morning 10 years earlier done nothing since.” to tell him that the previous Lawrence Lokman, evening he had witnessed vice president in Penn “an extreme sexual State’s office of strategic act occurring between communicat­ions, said the Sandusky and a university would have no young boy” in a football comment on the story. locker room shower, according State police could not to the report by be reached. state police.

“Paterno, upon hearing the news, sat back in his chair with a dejected look on his face,” CNN said the report states, adding that Mr. McQueary “said Paterno’s eyes appeared to well up with tears.”

“Then he made the comment to McQueary this was the second complaint of this nature he had received about Sandusky,” CNN said the report states.

The two men had “no discussion of the previous complaint at that time or

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