![]() ![]() It had resisted calls do to so for months. Nike Inc NKE.N, a longtime sponsor of the Penn State football program, decided to rename the Joe Paterno Child Development Center at its Oregon headquarters in the aftermath of the Freeh report. At Penn State the imperative was protecting a storied football program and its legendary coach.” ![]() ![]() The New York Times said the Freeh report showed “how slavish devotion to some institutional imperative can trump everything, including the law, basic human decency and the bedrock obligation we all have to protect defenseless children from harm. Sandusky, 68, was convicted last month of sexually abusing 10 boys, some of whom were attacked in the football locker room showers after 1998 when the first allegations surfaced. “He told the people he needed to tell,” she said in response to former FBI Director Louis Freeh’s scathing report on Thursday saying that Paterno knew far more about child sex abuse by former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky than he claimed and helped cover it up for years. “They are crucifying him,” said Deromedi. She stood next to the bronze statue outside Beaver Stadium, home of the team long coached by Paterno, winner of more games than any other coach in the history of U.S. REUTERS/Pat Little/FilesĪmong those taking in the scene at Pennsylvania State University was Bridget Deromedi, a 2002 graduate who lives in State College. Signs and flowers are seen at the statue of the late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, before the annual Spring football scrimmage in State College, Pennsylvania April 21, 2012. ![]()
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