Penn State students to honour child abuse victims at football game
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to be driven home is the last day of the season after "furious" to protest against the firing of Coach Joe Paterno
Penn State students have pledged to show support for victims of the scandal of sexual abuse of children in the final football game of the season Saturday as the mother of a child involved said they feared there were many more victims than the eight recorded to date.
The atmosphere on campus was quiet Friday, but the authorities intend to tighten security after what police described as a "frenzied mob" of students protested the dismissal of coach Joe Paterno , one of sports most revered figures of the United States.
Linda Strumpf, college, board member, told Reuters that the authorities had considered canceling the game. "We talked about it. We firmly believe that to penalize the players and the fans and the band ... it was just what not to do."
Paterno, 84, was fired by the university Wednesday after revealing he had said in 2002 that his former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky had sexually assaulted a young woman in a campus locker room. Although Paterno said his boss did not call the police. "People who have hidden the need to pay for their actions. Let this happen to many children," said the mother of another alleged victim of ABC Good Morning America Sandusky. The mother, whose child is identified as a victim in court documents, said he had been "many years I had access to these children, and I do not stop not eight hours. " Sandusky was charged Saturday with sexually abusing eight boys for over a decade. The former director of Penn State Athletics Tim Curley, and former finance officer Gary Schultz were charged with failing to report an incident. Sandusky, Curley and Schultz denied the accusations. Paterno met with his legal obligation to report the alleged abuse Curley, legal experts.
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Penn State on Friday named Kenneth Frazier, CEO of Merck & Co. and a graduate of Penn State, at the head of a special commission to investigate the events leading to charges against the Sandusky.
"We will do our best to restore public confidence," Frazier told the press. The scandal rocked the school of about 45 000 students in the central city of Pennsylvania State College, the flagship of nearly two dozen Penn State universities throughout the state.
instead of the usual pre-game rally on the night of Friday, the students plan to hold a candlelight vigil for victims of sexual assault and the fans go to the last home game are invited to dress in blue - the color associated with "child abuse to stop" campaign - instead of the traditional white
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