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meets a boy who is about 10
Jerry Sandusky, the defensive coordinator for Penn State's football program, meets a boy who is about 10. Over the next two years, Mr. Sandusky takes the boy on the field at Penn State games and introduces him to players. Mr. Sandusky inappropriately touches the boy and showers with him in the university's football facility. -
phone call
During a telephone call with the mother that was listened in on by detectives, Mr. Sandusky admits that he showered naked with the boy and acknowledges that the behavior was wrong. -
Mr. Sandusky is interviewed by an investigator
Mr. Sandusky is interviewed by an investigator from the State Department of Public Welfare and a university police detective about the incident with the 11-year-old boy. He says he will not shower with children again. -
1998
A mother of one Penn State alleged sex abuse victim from 1998, was told by authorities to keep silent about the investigation into her son's complaint against Jerry Sandusky -
Mr. Sandusky touched him inappropriately
Mr. Sandusky showers in the football locker room with an 11-year-old boy, who tells his mother that Mr. Sandusky touched him inappropriately. She reports the incident to the university police, and they conduct an investigation. -
Sandusky abruptly retired from his longtime position as defensive coordinator at Penn State in 1999
The mother of the victim told the Pat-News that she was kept from speaking with media by the state police. No charges were filed and as we have come to learn, Sandusky abruptly retired from his longtime position as defensive coordinator at Penn State in 1999, maintaining an office on the premises and full access to the campus -
victim 4
Victim 4 is listed, along with Sandusky's wife, as a member of Sandusky's family party for the 1999 Alamo Bowl. -
sandusky retires
Sandusky retires from Penn State but still holds emeritus status. -
summer
Boy known as Victim 3 meets Sandusky through The Second Mile when he is between seventh and eighth grade. -
fall 2000
A janitor named James Calhoun observes Sandusky in the showers of the Lasch Football Building with a young boy, known as Victim 8, pinned up against the wall, performing oral sex on the boy. He tells other janitorial staff immediately. Fellow Office of Physical Plant employee Ronald Petrosky cleans the showers at Lasch and sees Sandusky and the boy, who he describes as being between the ages of 11 and 13. -
next sexual incounter
Another alleged Sandusky victim surfaced in 2002. -
march 2002
In the morning, the graduate assistant calls coach Joe Paterno and goes to Paterno's home, where he reports what he has seen. -
march
Paterno calls Tim Curley, Penn State athletic director to his home the next day and reports a version of what the grad assistant had said. -
2005_- 2006
Boy known as Victim 1 says that he meets Sandusky through The Second Mile at age 11 or 12. -
spring
During the 2007 track season, Sandusky begins spending time with Victim 1 weekly, having him stay overnight at his residence in College Township, Pa. -
spring 2008
Termination of contact with Victim 1 occurs when he is a freshman in a Clinton County high school. After the boy's mother calls the school to report sexual assault, Sandusky is barred from the school district attended by Victim 1 from that day forward and the matter is reported to authorities as mandated by law. -
september 2010
Sandusky retires from day-to-day involvement with The Second Mile, saying he wants to spend more time with family and handle personal matters. -
nov 5 2011
Sandusky is arrested and released on $100,000 bail after being arraigned on 40 criminal counts. -
nov 7 2011
Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly says Paterno is not a target of the investigation into how the school handled the accusations. But she refuses to say the same for university president Graham Spanier. Curley and Schultz, who have stepped down from their positions, surrender on charges that they failed to alert police to complaints against Sandusky. -
march 2011
Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot-News reports that grand jury is investigating Sandusky on allegations of indecent assault against a teenage boy. The Patriot-News reports that five people with knowledge of the case said the grand jury has been meeting for 18 months and has called witnesses, including Paterno and Curley. Penn State declines comment. -
nov 8 2011
Possible ninth victim of Sandusky contacts state police as calls for ouster of Paterno and Spanier grow in state and beyond. Penn State abruptly cancels Paterno's regular weekly news conference. -
nov 9 2011
Paterno announces in the morning he'll retire at the end of the season, but the university's board of trustees rules later that Paterno and Spanier are out effective immediately. Defensive coordinator Tom Bradley is named interim coach and provost Rodney Erickson is named interim university president.