The fate of Penn State University’s 7-foot statue of its late head football coach Joe Paterno will be decided in the next seven to 10 days as there are calls for it to be removed after Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal, a school spokesman said.
The university’s board of trustees will decide in that time whether the statue will be taken from Beaver Stadium in State College, Pennsylvania, spokesman David La Torre said in an email, Reuters reported.
Critics have increased calls for the statue to be removed following the release last Thursday of a report by former FBI chief Louis Freeh that said Paterno and other high-ranking Penn State officials covered up Sandusky’s abuse for years.
Paterno was fired by Penn State’s board in November, days after Sandusky was arrested for the abuse, and died in January of lung cancer at age 85.
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