Sandusky’s Sins Have Not Slipped into the Sunset: Penn State’s Recent Saga With Hazing and Sexual-Abuse Allegations

Sep 18, 2026

By Clare Maness, Esq. Somehow, Penn State just can’t shake its sex-abuse legacy. This past spring, almost a decade and a half after Jerry Sandusky sustained multiple convictions for sexual abuse during his tenure as an assistant football coach for the Nittany Lions, the Third Circuit took on an appeal involving allegations against Penn State, namely claims of serious abuse linked to its football program. In fact, these allegations involved players actually invoking Sandusky’s name while abus
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