"I'm not a doctor . . . but it seems to me that with everything that has gone on with her, somebody should have tried to help her with her problems, not go after me,'' Scott said in the statement. I'm not the kind of guy to pass judgment, but, jeez, look at what she did to me, my family, my team and my school. It's just hard, very hard."
Said Karoly: "The circumstances of her [previous] rape and sexual-assault charges are eerily similar to those she brought against Austin Scott."
Karoly also questioned the timing of the Centre County DA's office in scheduling Scott's arraignment.
"Not only do I believe they rushed to judgment, they scurried around to find a district magistrate to sign the charges on the eve of homecoming, so 110,000 visitors to Penn State could see this splashed across the headlines the next morning," he said.
Madeira and Marshall countered that had they delayed the case, "then the perception that Penn State football players are treated differently than 'regular citizens' would become a reality." *
