Former Pennsylvania State University president Graham Spanier was sentenced to serve two months in jail and an additional two to 10 months of house arrest for failing to alert law enforcement about a 2001 incident involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky and a boy in a campus shower, one of the final words from the criminal justice system on the shocking saga of missed opportunities to stop a sexual predator associated with one of America’s most storied college football programs. Spanier, former athletic director Timothy Curley and former Vice President Gary Schultz, who oversaw the university police department, each face up to five years behind bars for a single misdemeanor count of child endangerment but could receive a lesser penalty under the state's sentencing guidelines. Spanier, 68, Curley, 63, and Schultz, 67, were accused of covering up a 2001 complaint filed by a graduate student, Michael McQueary, who said he witnessed then assistant football coach Sandusky having sex with a boy in the campus football showers. I sincerely apologize to the victims and to all who were impacted because of my mistake.”

Sandusky is serving a 30-to-60-year prison sentence after being found guilty of 45 counts of sexual abuse in 2012. Spanier apologized before his sentencing Friday but plans to appeal the charges.
Former Pennsylvania State University president Graham Spanier, former vice president Gary Schultz, and former athletic director Timothy Curley are sentenced to prison for covering up ex-coach Jerry Sandusky's criminal sexual acts, thereby letting him victimize more boys.