finally out of appeals Graham "Horseplay" Spanier heads to jail
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Judge orders former Penn State president Spanier to begin prison sentence on July 9
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 1 hr ago
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A judge on Wednesday ordered Graham Spanier, the former Penn State University president, to begin serving a sentence on a misdemeanor child endangerment conviction stemming from a 2001 complaint.
Mr. Spanier, 72, will begin serving his sentence — a minimum of two months in jail, followed by two months of house arrest.— on July 9.
He had been found guilty by a Dauphin County jury in March 2017 of a single misdemeanor count of endangering the welfare of children by the way he responded to a complaint that Jerry Sandusky had attacked a boy in a Nittany Lions football team shower in 2001.
Mr. Spanier had avoided prison thus far because of a series of appeals that, at one point, saw his conviction overturned, but later reinstated by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in December..
The latest ruling was handed down by Judge John Boccabella, a visiting senior judge from Berks County.
Mr. Spanier was forced out as university president shortly after Sandusky’s 2011 arrest on child molestation charges. A year later, Mr. Spanier was himself accused of a criminal cover-up, although many of those counts were later thrown out.
Mr. Spanier has said the abuse of the boy, who has not been conclusively identified by authorities, was characterized as horseplay. The incident was not reported to authorities after Mr. Spanier wrote in an email to aides that “the only downside for us is if the message isn’t ‘heard’ and acted upon, and we then become vulnerable for not having reported it.”
Mr. Spanier, who did not testify in his own defense, told Judge Boccabella at sentencing that he regretted not intervening more forcefully.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/judge-orders-former-penn-state-president-spanier-to-begin-prison-sentence-on-july-9/
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