Penn State ex-president Graham Spanier reports to jail

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Former Penn State president Graham Spanier has reported to jail early to begin serving his sentence for child endangerment in a case stemming from the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal. Mr. Spanier is in custody at Centre County Correctional Facility, several miles from the Penn State campus.

A judge upheld Mr. Spanier’s sentence last month and ordered him to begin serving at least two months in the county jail by July 9 for a single misdemeanor conviction of endangering the welfare of children. After Mr. Spanier is released, he will spend two months on house arrest with electronic monitoring.

Mr. Spanier was charged over his response to a 2001 report that Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant football coach, had been spotted showering alone with a boy in a team locker room. Mr. Spanier has said the abuse (rape) of the boy was characterized to him as horseplay. He and other top administrators did not notify police.

Mr. Spanier was charged in 2012 and was convicted by a jury in 2017, but appeals had allowed him to stay out of jail. Mr. Spanier, 72, did not testify at his trial, but spoke at sentencing, telling the judge that he regretted not intervening more forcefully.
(Apparently he didn’t intervene at all)

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2021/06/09/Penn-State-ex-president-Graham-Spanier-reports-to-jail/stories/202106090166

[ShazamIam]

1. Rich white guy gets gentle slap on wrist for enabling and cover up of sex abuse. Nothing new at all

[empedocles]

2. An extremely political case

many of the political actors and political currents underreported or unreported

[RockRaven]

3. He spent 5 years fighting the initial charge, and 4 years appealing, a misdemeanor yielding a

2 months sentence. Nine fucking years, to avoid not even nine weeks in what is probably the lowest security county jail situation you can imagine.

Kids got raped on your watch, and you can't even take your medicine (as paltry as it is) with dignity.

[FakeNoose]

5. Plus all his money went to the lawyers trying to save his butt

None of it mattered because the truth came out anyway.

In retrospect I think justice has been served on this guy. The one that got away is Jerry Sandusky's wife. SHE's the real enabler and she'll never be charged or convicted of anything.

[Goonch]

4. ;-{)