Penn State ex-president Graham Spanier reports to jail

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Former Penn State president Graham Spanier has reported to jail early to begin serving his sentence for child endangerment in a case stemming from the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal. Mr. Spanier is in custody at Centre County Correctional Facility, several miles from the Penn State campus.

A judge upheld Mr. Spanier’s sentence last month and ordered him to begin serving at least two months in the county jail by July 9 for a single misdemeanor conviction of endangering the welfare of children. After Mr. Spanier is released, he will spend two months on house arrest with electronic monitoring.

Mr. Spanier was charged over his response to a 2001 report that Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant football coach, had been spotted showering alone with a boy in a team locker room. Mr. Spanier has said the abuse (rape) of the boy was characterized to him as horseplay. He and other top administrators did not notify police.

Mr. Spanier was charged in 2012 and was convicted by a jury in 2017, but appeals had allowed him to stay out of jail. Mr. Spanier, 72, did not testify at his trial, but spoke at sentencing, telling the judge that he regretted not intervening more forcefully.
(Apparently he didn’t intervene at all)

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2021/06/09/Penn-State-ex-president-Graham-Spanier-reports-to-jail/stories/202106090166