It also reported that the nonprofit's board of directors had agreed to hire Lynne Abraham and the law firm Archer & Greiner to independently investigate the extent of Mr. Sandusky's contact with the program's children, when the charity learned of allegations against Mr. Sandusky and how it responded. The charity's former CEO, Jack Raykovitz, testified to the investigating grand jury that he was notified in 2002 that a Penn State football staff member had reported seeing Mr. Sandusky in the football building's showers with a boy, that it had made the staff member uncomfortable and that subsequently Mr. Sandusky had been barred from bringing Second Mile children onto campus. The question of just how long The Second Mile can continue operating is difficult to answer because some donors are still contributing, and the group has some flexibility in what programs continue operating and at what level, Mr. Woodle said. He said the board would publicly address those issues and others, but not before she finishes her inquiry, which he said he expected to take until the end of the year. Abraham served as the district attorney for Philadelphia from 1991 until last year. The New York Times reported Friday that leaders of The Second Mile plan to dissolve the charity and possibly transfer its programs to a small number of nonprofit groups. Abraham, now a partner at Archer & Greiner, led a five-year investigation into sexual abuse by priests in Philadelphia.
– In the not-so-surprising department, the charity at the center of the Penn State rape allegations may shut down. The chief of Second Mile tells the New York Times that the charity is looking into how to transfer its money to other nonprofits that help disadvantage kids. He later tempered that by saying the organization was reaching out to its major donors to see whether there was any way to salvage it. "Look, we're facing an uphill battle, but we want these programs to survive," David Woodle the the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "If we just don't have any support, they may have to go away, but we're working hard to make sure that doesn't happen." Jerry Sandusky founded the charity in 1977 and had been the group's main fundraiser until he resigned in September 2010. Authorities say he used it to groom his victims, and Second Mile officials were reportedly notified of concerns about Sandusky's behavior in 2002. The charity has hired an outside law firm to investigate its handling of the case, and the inquiry is being led by former Philadelphia DA Lynne Abraham.