By
Ray Blehar
April 10, 2017, 9:23 PM, EDT
Here is an excerpt from Gary Schultz's January 12, 2011 pre-grand jury interview memorializing that he believed a report was made to CYS:
When Schultz testified to the grand jury later that day, he repeatedly recalled that a report was made to “the child protective agency” in 2002 (sic). The 1998 University Park police report confirms that Detective Ronald Schreffler contacted Centre County Children and Youth Services to "look into the matter."
Starting at page 212:
Page 213:
Page 215, Schultz answered
affirmatively that the 2002 (sic) incident was reported to “the same agency”
that the “98 one had been.”
Page 216, Schultz stated the 2002
(sic) report was “also turned over.”
Page 223, Schultz again answers
that “the university asked the other agency to follow up as it did in ’98.”
Page 227, Schultz “recalled that we
asked this agency to do the investigation”
and “the agency was asked to follow up.”
On page 228, Schultz, in response to Frank Fina's snarky question, again referred
to the agency “that handled the 98 investigation.”
CONCLUSION
On January 12th, 2011, Gary Schultz
was under the belief that he or someone else from Penn State made a
report to Centre County CYS in 2001.
Centre County CYS and DPW are not
the same.
While Schultz admitted under oath at
the Spanier trial that no report was made to DPW, he did not make any such
statement regarding CYS.
Ray - Didn't Courtney back up Schultz about a report to CYS in his testimony?
ReplyDeleteThis was just another of many missed opportunities for Spanier's defense. There is certainly reasonable doubt about whether a report was made to CYS in 2001 given that records of unfounded reports are destroyed.
The defense could have called a CC CYS official to ssk if they have any written records of the 1998 report, which is known to have been investigated. The answer would have been no. Then they could have asked how they could be sure there was no 2001 report if they kept no records.
Tim,
DeleteSorry for the late response.
Spanier's legal team should have called both Miller (CYS) and Lauro (DPW) as witnesses. Getting those two guys to state that Sandusky showering with MULTIPLE children was not abuse would have had an impact on the jury, IMO.
Courtney, unfortunately, conflated CYS and DPW when he testified. This has been a long running error in the case.