Pennsylvania State University paid settlements to end claims that Joe Paterno and other coaches at the school knew as early as the 1970s that Jerry Sandusky was assaulting children sexually, according to court filings and a person familiar with the payouts.
One accuser was a child when he allegedly told Paterno in 1976 that Sandusky had molested him. Two assistant coaches witnessed Sandusky's misconduct with children in the 1980s, and a former athletic director also was told about sexual contact between the former assistant coach and a child, according to the filings.
The claims were never aired or proven at trial. But the allegations and settlements, cited in a Philadelphia judge's ruling in a related case this week, suggest for the first time that Sandusky's sexual misconduct was known to some on campus decades before he first drew law enforcement scrutiny.
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