Penn St Trustee Albert Lord 'Running Out of Sympathy' for Jerry Sandusky Victims

A Penn State trustee had harsh words for victims of the sexual abuse scandal involving former Nittany Lions assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

"Running out of sympathy for 35 yr old, so-called victims with 7 digit net worth," trustee Albert L. Lord said in an email to the Chronicle of Higher Education (via USA Today's A.J. Perez). "Do not understand why they were so prominent in trial. As you learned, Graham Spanier never knew Sandusky abused anyone."

A jury in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, convicted Spanier, former president of Penn State, on a charge of child endangerment but found him not guilty of conspiracy and a separate child endangerment charge.

A jury found Sandusky guilty on 45 counts of sexual abuse in 2012, and he received a minimum of 30 years in prison. 

In July 2016, Penn State agreed to pay roughly $93 million to victims who claimed Sandusky abused them.