HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's attorney
general says four of her employees have been fired and 11 suspended without pay
for involvement in a pornographic emails scandal that also prompted a state
Supreme Court justice to step down.
Attorney General Kathleen Kane said Wednesday two
others face possible termination.
Kane has said emails containing explicit material
and pornographic photos and videos surfaced during an examination of how
prosecutors handled the Jerry Sandusky child abuse case. She promised the
review while running for office in 2012.
Gerald
Arthur "Jerry" Sandusky (born January 26, 1944) is a
retired American football coach and convicted serial child molester. Sandusky served as
an assistant coach for his entire career, mostly at Pennsylvania State
University under Joe Paterno (from 1969 to
1999). He received Assistant Coach of the Year awards in 1986 and 1999.
In 1977, Sandusky founded The Second Mile, a non-profit charity
serving Pennsylvania underprivileged and at-risk youth. After Sandusky
retired as assistant coach at Penn State, he continued working with The Second
Mile at Penn State, maintaining an office at Penn State until 2011.
In 2011, following a
two-year grand jury investigation, Sandusky was arrested and charged with 52 counts of sexual abuse of young boys over a 15-year period from 1994 to
2009. He met his molestation victims through The Second Mile, who were children
participating in the organization, and several of them testified against
Sandusky in his sexual abuse trial. Four of the charges were subsequently
dropped.
On June 22, 2012, Sandusky was found guilty on 45 of the 48 remaining
charges. Sandusky was sentenced on October 9, 2012 to 30 to 60 years in
prison—at his age, effectively a life sentence.
She had previously disclosed the participation of
several former employees of the office, leading at least four to leave public
jobs elsewhere in state and local government.
Justice Seamus McCaffery retired last month after
his role in receiving and sending the emails was made public.
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