Former Penn St. coach Jerry Sandusky indicted on sex charges

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Jerry Sandusky/Courtesy: Pennsylvania Att. General's office

We didn't get to this story yesterday, but it is sufficiently scary and big enough, we had to talk about it.

Yesterday afternoon an indictment against former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was released by a grand jury in Pennsylvania and the contents of it painted an absolutely appalling story.

Sandusky, per the indictment, created a charity called Second Mile to get access to young boys that he would proceed to molest.

The indictment states he not only did that, but that he committed many of the sexual acts at the football building on the Penn State campus.

Sandusky was for many years considered to be the successor to Joe Paterno. But, he suddenly retired in 1999, though he apparently stayed active in and around the team for many years.

The lengthy indictment was the end of a 3-year-investigation.

You can read the state's press release RIGHT HERE

The indictment in its entirety is RIGHT HERE (Warning--VERY GRAPHIC)

Along with Sandusky, Penn State's athletic director, Timothy Curley and the school's VP of Finance and Business Gary C. Schultz were named in the indictment, primarily because they were aware of potential issues surrounding Sandusky and chose not to report them.

Among the scariest allegations: Sandusky was found by a Penn State graduate assistant found Sandusky sexually assaulting a young, 10-year-old boy in the shower at the football building.

That grad assistant told coach Joe Paterno what happened and Paterno then relayed the information to Curley. He later had a meeting with both Curley and Schultz who rather than report the incident to authorities, just barred Sandusky from bringing any children from Second Mile, into the building.

There is much, much more detail about Sandusky's activities in the indictment and the whole issue could be a huge problem for Penn State, who is in the midst of a pretty good football season. Sandusky has already bonded out of jail and Curley and Schultz plan to turn themselves in to authorities on Monday.

We'll keep on this story and update it on Monday after the two school administrators turn themselves in.

Here's the TV version of the story from CBS21 News in Harrisburg, PA:



And here's KDKA's coverage from Pittsburgh...