{"id":3462,"date":"2016-05-06T10:18:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T02:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/06\/joe-paterno-allegedly-heard-of-jerry-sandusky-abuse-as-early-as-1976\/"},"modified":"2016-05-06T10:18:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T02:18:37","slug":"joe-paterno-allegedly-heard-of-jerry-sandusky-abuse-as-early-as-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/06\/joe-paterno-allegedly-heard-of-jerry-sandusky-abuse-as-early-as-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Paterno allegedly heard of Jerry Sandusky abuse as early as 1976"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joepa\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.2.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA1LzA2L2EwL0pvZVBhLjI1NTIyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/571b9994\/b2f\/JoePa.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Joe+Paterno+allegedly+heard+of+Jerry+Sandusky+abuse+as+early+as+1976&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F05%2Fjoe-paterno-sandusky-1976%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F05%2Fjoe-paterno-sandusky-1976%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Joe Paterno may have known about abuse allegations against\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">assistant coach <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/07\/12\/sandusky-report\/\" style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Jerry Sandusky<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u00a0as far back as 1976 \u2014 a revelation that could destroy what&#8217;s left of\u00a0<\/span>the former Penn State football coach&#8217;s\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">already tarnished legacy \u2014\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">according to a lawsuit between an insurer and the school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Sandusky was convicted in June 2012 of of sexually abusing 10 boys over a span of many years, using his station as a coach at one of America&#8217;s iconic college football programs to lure in victims.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/05\/aaron-moorehead-twitter-texas-a-m-tunsil\/\">Aaron Moorehead and Laremy Tunsil: Football fandom in the age of online spectacle<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The explosive lead comes from a case (<i>below<\/i>) between the university and an insurer, which is part of the Sandusky fallout.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Paterno died at age 85 six months before Sandusky was convicted; his family continues to claim he never knew of Sandusky&#8217;s abuse before allegations became public.<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/05\/joe-paterno-sandusky-1976\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/sports\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Sports<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Entertainment<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/EzQnKk2po0c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Paterno may have known about abuse allegations against\u00a0assistant coach Jerry Sandusky\u00a0as far back as 1976 \u2014 a revelation that could destroy what&#8217;s left of\u00a0the former Penn State football coach&#8217;s\u00a0already tarnished legacy \u2014\u00a0according to a lawsuit between an insurer and &hellip; 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