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Penn State Sex Scandal: Former Lehigh Valley Man to Stand Trial

Former Penn State Vice President Gary Schultz, a graduate of Nazareth Area High School, will stand trial in the alleged cover-up of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

Nazareth Area High School graduate Gary Schultz and two former Penn State University administrators have been ordered to stand trial over their alleged involvement in a cover-up in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

Prosecutors showed enough evidence during a two-day preliminary hearing to warrant a trial for Schultz, ex-President Graham Spanier and ex-athletic director Tim Curley, a district judge concluded Tuesday, according to published reports.

District Judge William Wenner called it "a tragic day for Penn State University," the Easton Express-Times reported.

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Tom Farrell, attorney for Gary Schultz, talked to the Patriot News of Harrisburg about the preliminary hearing for the former Penn State senior vice president for finance and business. See the video.

State prosecutors allege that the three men failed to tell police about sexual abuse allegations involving Sandusky and then tried to cover up what they knew about it, the Associated Press stated in a story on ABC 7 News.

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The men say they are innocent and were not aware of the allegation against Sandusky in 2001. They say they had believed that Sandusky and the boy were engaged in nothing more than horseplay in a university locker room shower.

Sandusky was convicted last year of 45 counts of child sexual abuse, but maintains his innocence and is appealing a 30- to 60-year state prison term.

Last September, Schultz's name was stripped from a Penn State building in the wake of the charges.


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