LOS ANGELES (MCT) — Penn State University, still coping with the fallout from a sex-abuse scandal involving a former football coach, will divert $1.5 million from its athletics programs and donate it to groups that help victims of sexual violence, the university announced Thursday.
The planned donation to the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center is part of the school’s response to the scandal involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, who has been charged with sexually abusing eight boys over a 15-year period.
Head coach Joe Paterno and the university’s president were forced to leave last month because of the scandal.
In announcing the commitment to donate the funds, the school said the money would come from Penn State’s share of this year’s Big Ten bowl revenues.
