Michael Rozen, one of the lawyers brought in by Penn State to resolve the civil claims, told the paper that Victim 5’s case was considered among the more serious because the abuse occurred in August 2001, months after top school officials were informed by a graduate assistant that he saw Sandusky assaulting a boy in a team shower.
“The pivotal issue from the university’s perspective in dealing with the victims is where the incident occurred and when it occurred proximate to the 2001 shower incident,” Rozen told the paper.
A spokesman for the university declined comment Saturday on the deal, saying the school “continues to make progress on multiple settlements.”
At Sandusky’s trial, Victim 5 testified that he met the coach at a Second Mile camp in 1999 and went to Penn State games with him. He said that Sandusky groped him in the showers during a workout.