Two former administrators at Penn State face jail after pleading guilty on Monday for their roles in the notorious sex abuse scandal that forced the dismissal of legendary coach Joe Paterno.
Former athletic director Tim Curley and former senior vice president Gary Schultz could be sentenced to up to five years each after admitting child endangerment charges.
Schultz and Curley were arrested in 2011 while another defendant, former university president Graham Spanier, was detained in 2012.
All three men are accused of failing to report allegations of abuse against coach Jerry Sandusky when first made aware of them a decade earlier.
Sandusky is serving 30 to 60 years in prison after being convicted in 2012 of 45 counts of abuse relating to 10 boys.
The scandal is one of the most notorious in the history of US college sport and eventually led to the dismissal of Paterno, the revered head of Penn State’s football program.
Paterno, who died in 2012 aged 85, had been criticized for failing to inform police of abuse allegations against Sandusky made by assistant football coach Mike McQueary.
McQueary said he had informed Spanier, Curley and Schultz of witnessing Sandusky abusing a boy in a team shower in 2001. The incident was not reported to authorities by the college until a decade later.
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