Paterno family wants public release of e-mails

Posted: July 03, 2012

Joe Paterno's family called Monday for the public release of e-mails written by Pennsylvania State University administrators in response to a 2001 allegation of child sex-abuse lodged against Jerry Sandusky.

The documents - parts of which have been leaked over the last month - allegedly show that the late head football coach and a handful of other Penn State officials decided against notifying outside authorities after graduate assistant Mike McQueary walked in on Sandusky and a 10-year-old in a sexual position that year. In a statement released Monday, Paterno family lawyer Wick Sollers described the leaks as "selective" and suggested they were intended to tar the reputations of the late coach and others.

Sollers called upon the state Attorney General's Office and an independent investigative group commissioned by Penn State, which discovered the correspondence this year, to turn over the e-mail exchange and any other records related to the case. Neither the Attorney General's Office nor the Penn State-commissioned group responded to calls seeking comment Monday. - Jeremy Roebuck

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