The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) said that it is currently reviewing former FBI Director Louis Freeh's report showing PSU top officials involved in covering up incidents of child sex abuse by Jerry Sandusky, then assistant football coach to the university team, who was convicted of child molestation and abuse.
The report released Thursday implicated PSU Head Coach Joe Paterno, Athletic Director Tim Curly, the University President Graham Spanier, and Vice President Gary Schultz in a cover-up of a 1998 shower incident in which the 68-year-old Sandusky was accused of showering with a boy and touching him inappropriately.
Now, there is talk about the measures NCAA will take on the university's prestigious football team, there is much speculation whether the team will be slapped with an indefinite suspension better known as the death penalty.
The Freeh report has certainly shed light on PSU's "pervasive and damaging culture at Penn State where the levers of power were tightly controlled by four men (the officials)... whose repeated failure to deal with troubling allegations lodged against Sandusky always seemed to be directed by one goal: to avoid the consequences of bad publicity," as mentioned by USA Today.
The 267 page report was formed over seven months of investigation, more than 400 interviews, and a review of over 3.5 million documents.
The most powerful PSU officials "repeatedly concealed critical facts relating to Sandusky's child abuse from the authorities, the board of trustees, the Penn State community and the public at large," according the New York Times.
The University has called upon victims to resolve claims and prevent inevitable civil lawsuits.
Sandusky, 68, is currently in Centre County prison awaiting his sentencing, which is scheduled to be held in about 90 days. He could face a maximum sentence of 373 years.
Last month a jury of seven women and five men found the 68 year-old guilty of 45 out of the 48 counts against him for sexual abuse of ten young boys over a span of 15 years.
