STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - In a stunning shakeup, Penn State football coach Joe Paterno and school president Graham Spanier were fired Wednesday night by the board of trustees amid the growing furor over how the school handled child-sex-abuse allegations against a former assistant coach. Paterno, the winningest coach in major college football, was ousted at the end of day that began with his announcement to retire at end of the season, his 46th. But that was not to be.
A $7.3 million judgment this week ended a lawsuit that, in an unusual turn, became a path-breaking case about harassment through text messages. The lawsuit was filed in 2007 and was, until just a day before the judgment was entered on Tuesday, largely based on claims of childhood sexual abuse. After a confidential agreement between the parties, the plaintiffs dropped that count, along with allegations of battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
A former Capital High School teacher who was accused but not convicted of fondling female students is appealing his firing by the Kanawha County school board to the state Supreme Court. The court will hear Tyrone Persinger's motion to overturn an affirmation by a Kanawha Circuit judge who upheld the decision of an administrative law judge in 2007.
Defendant did not object at trial to allegedly cumulative evidence of the victims allegations of sexual abuse through her own testimony, the testimony of a social worker who interviewed her, and playing portions of the videotape of the social workers interview. The testimony was not unfairly prejudicial and did not rise to the level of plain error. Judgment affirmed.
Allegations of sexual abuse against former youth basketball coach Bobby Dodd have caught the attention of local YMCA officials, who said they're conducting their own investigation. The YMCA of Memphis and the Mid-South acknowledged the inquiry into Dodd, one of its employees in the 1980s and early 1990s, in a statement.
Twenty now deceased Roman Catholic priests who had been accused of sexually abusing children were identified by the Maine Attorney General's office Friday, in compliance with a court order. The names and supporting documents detail complaints of abuse ranging from the 1930s to the 1970s, in Maine communities from Fort Kent to South Berwick. Some of the priests are named by a single accuser, others by as many as 13.
ANNAPOLIS - Unfounded allegations of child sexual abuse cost a Severn man months of time with his two young daughters and his job as a mortgage consultant with a local bank. A county jury found the false light put on Darryl Ginyard and ordered his ex-wife, who falsely accused him of sexually abusing his children, to pay him $850,000 in punitive damages.
Boy Scouts ordered to hand over abuse files SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) -- A judge overseeing a lawsuit brought by the family of a California boy molested by his troop leader has ordered the Boy Scouts of America to hand over confidential files detailing allegations of sexual abuse by Scout leaders around the nation.
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