Penn St.: No records to evaluate Paterno claims

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Penn State says it doesn’t have records from 40 years ago to help evaluate a claim former football coach Joe Paterno was told by a boy in 1976 that assistant coach Jerry Sandusky molested him.

In a statement issued Friday, Penn State said a claim attributed to an insurance company in a coverage dispute with the university amounts to allegations that aren’t established facts.

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A judge says insurers in litigation with Penn State claim a boy told coach Joe Paterno in 1976 that he had been molested by Jerry Sandusky, according to a Pennlive.com report.

“The university has no records from the time to help evaluate the claims,” the statement said. “More importantly, Coach Paterno is not here to defend himself. Penn State does not intend to comment further, out of …

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