Penn State University trustees tonight, voted to fire both head coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier amid growing suspicions and a growing furor over how the school handled sex abuse and youth sexual assault allegations against an assistant coach since as early as 1998.
Earlier this week, Coach Joe Paterno had publicly announced, as an act to ease both the public attention of this case, as well as the trustees' need to take action, that he would be stepping down from his head coaching role at the end of this season. However, the board of trustees saw the public outcry, as well as their own moral and value-based roles as heads of a university as widely known and respected as Penn State University.
Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant and constant fixture within Penn State as early as the 70's, was brought up on charges of molestation while running a not-for-profit organization out of Penn State facilities.
However, the most important question has been why Paterno and other top school officials didn’t go to police in 2002 after being told another assistant saw Sandusky assaulting a boy in a school shower. Joe Paterno has publicly stated he feels, in some way responsible for not doing more concerning the rumors and statements.
This now ends a long series of discussion as to Joe Paterno's status with the team in the remaining games of the season, how networks would react to his situation and how the school would react to the public outcry.
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