Update:
As dawn breaks on the Penn State campus in State College, PA, a construction team is beginning the process of removing the statue of famed football coach Joe Paterno. The statue is covered with a blue cloth and fencing has been erected near the statue.
This is one of the many actions the university has taken to get beyond the investigation conducted by former FBI director Louis Freeh. The Freeh report says that Paterno and other university officials covered up the child sex abuse from an ex coach for ten years in order to avoid adverse publicity.
Former coach Jerry Sandusky has been convicted of 45 counts of child sex abuse over a ten year period.
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Reports are currently circulating that the statue of Joe Paterno near Beaver Stadium on the PSU campus will be removed.
Sports reporters Kimberly Jones and Bonnie Bernstein have posted the report on Twitter.
A spokesperson for PSU has denied knowledge of the status of the statue.
Joe Paterno was one of four PSU officials that were vilified in the Freeh reporyt on the child sex abuse scandal at the university. The report basically says Paterno took no action against convicted felon Jerry Sandusky in order to prevent bad publicity from affecting the football program
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