Jerry Sandusky 2011 Child Sex Abuse: Organizational Response, Law and Politics, and Recommendations

Running head: JERRY SANDUSKY 2011 CHILD SEX ABUSE
Jerry Sandusky 2011 Child Sex Abuse
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1JERRY SANDUSKY 2011 CHILD SEX ABUSE
Introduction:
The child abuse scandal of Penn State stared with Jerry Sandusky, who was the football
assistant coach for Penn State Nittany Lions team. He was accused for the over a period of 15 years.
This broke in 2011 while he was been indicted of 52 children molestation (Weatherred, 2017).
In the following study the organizational response dealing with societal pressure is discussed.
This also includes responses and law and politics involved with it. Lastly, recommendations are
included in the study to understand the case effectively.
Organizational response:
Societal pressure:
Within the law of time at Pennsylvania, a state employee who learnt about the suspected
incident reported the incident to the supervisor named Paterno. He, in turn, also reported that to Gary
Schultz for whom the police department was reported directly. Further, the “The New York Times”
also reported that the Penn State was found to be planning the existence of Paterno near the season
of college football. The trustee named Kenneth Frazier, on November 21, 2011, revealed that the
former director of FBI Louis Freeh has been leading to internal search into various activities of the
university (Flannery, Stephens & Thompson, 2016). Apart from this some of the students of Penn
States has engaged on Spoanier’s rile in the incident. This argument regarding support for Schultz
and Curley created Facebook page name “Fire Graham Spanier”. This is to call on the Board of
Trustees of Penn State for firing Spanier. Besides, the online petition at the change.org has been
calling for the ouster of Spanier garnered over 1,500 signatures in just four days (Downes, 2017).