Former Penn State athletic director Tim Curley (above) has been released from jail after serving 2½ months for charges related to the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal
Former Penn State athletic director Tim Curley has been released from jail after serving 2½ months for charges related to the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal.
The 63-year-old defendant was released from the Centre County jail on October 3, and is now serving the house-arrest portion of his sentence, Penn Live reported.
He had originally been sentenced to seven to 23 months in jail after pleading guilty in March to child endangerment.
That charge stems from not properly investigating a complaint by a Penn State assistant coach that Sandusky abused a boy in a locker room shower.
Curley must now serve four months on house arrest followed by two years on probation.
Curley was released less than a month after former university vice president Gary Schultz finished his six- to-23 month jail term for the same crime.
The 63-year-old defendant (above in March) was released from the Centre County jail on October 3, and is now serving the house-arrest portion of his sentence. He had originally been sentenced to seven to 23 months in jail after pleading guilty in March to child endangerment
That charge stems from not properly investigating a complaint by a Penn State assistant coach that Sandusky (left with late head coach Joe Paterno in 1999) abused a boy in a locker room shower
Schultz is also serving house arrest and probation.
Back in June, Curley was sentenced with Schultz and ex-president Graham Spanier, 68.
At the time, Judge John Boccabella said: ‘Why Mr. Sandusky was allowed to continue to the Penn State facilities is beyond me.
‘All three ignored the opportunity to put an end to (Sandusky’s) crimes when they had a chance to do so.’
The judge also criticized the actions of the late head football coach, Joe Paterno, who like the other administrators failed to alert child-welfare authorities or police to the 2001 complaint, but was never charged with a crime.
Paterno ‘could have made that phone call without so much as getting his hands dirty. Why he didn’t is beyond me,’ Boccabella said.
Former Penn State vice president Gary Schultz (left), former Penn State President Graham Spanier (center), and Curley (right) were all sentenced back in June for failing to report now-convicted sexual predator Jerry Sandusky to authorities in 2001
The three former Penn State officials all apologized for their actions and to Sandusky’s victims before the sentences were handed down.
‘I deeply regret that I did not intervene more forcefully,’ Spanier said at the time.
Curley and Schultz also told the court they were sorry they didn’t do more.
‘I am very remorseful I did not comprehend the severity of the situation. I sincerely apologize to the victims and to all who were impacted because of my mistake,’ Curley said.
Said Schultz: ‘It really sickens me to think I might have played a part in children being hurt. I’m sorry that I didn’t do more, and I apologize to the victims.’
Prosecutors slammed all three men, saying they cared more about themselves than about protecting children.
They reserved their harshest words for Spanier.
‘He was a complete and utter failure as a leader when it mattered most,’ said Laura Ditka, a state prosecutor.