HARRISBURG —
A judge has set an Aug. 16 court date to hear oral arguments on pretrial motions in the case of two former Penn State officials charged with perjury and failing to report suspected child sexual abuse, Dauphin County Court officials said Tuesday.
Former university athletic director Timothy Curley and former university vice president Gary Schultz are awaiting trial on charges they lied to a grand jury investigating former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky and did not properly report suspected child abuse.
Court officials said Curley and Schultz are not required to be at the hearing, and they were not expected to attend.
Sandusky is in jail and awaiting sentencing after being convicted of dozens of abuse-related charges last month.
Curley and Schultz were originally charged in November when a grand jury issued a report accusing the men of participating in an alleged cover-up of Sandusky’s sexual abuse of boys.
Former FBI Director Louis Freeh, who was hired by the university’s trustees to investigate, issued a report last week that could have consequences for the criminal case against Curley and Schultz.
The report said Penn State’s then-football coach Joe Paterno, then-university President Graham Spanier, Curley and Schultz buried child sexual abuse allegations against Sandusky more than a decade ago to avoid bad publicity, allowing Sandusky to prey on other boys for years.
Paterno, who died in January, was not charged, and Spanier has not been charged, either. The attorney general’s office is still investigating, and more charges could be filed.
Attorneys for Curley and Schultz say the Freeh report did not show the full picture and was flawed because Freeh’s investigators were limited by lack of subpoena power and did not speak to critical witnesses. They also say there was no effort by Schultz, Curley, Paterno or Spanier to hide Sandusky’s behavior.
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