BREAKING: Charges Dismissed Against Penn State Administrators In Jerry Sandusky Sex Case

A Pennsylvania appeals court dismissed several major charges Friday against three former Penn State administrators connected to the Jerry Sandusky sex case. All three remain charged with two counts of failure to report suspected child abuse and and one of endangering the welfare of children.

In its opinion, though, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania said that Penn State Counsel Cytnthia Baldwin should not have been allowed to testify against the trio of former administrators.

Because she did, the court dismissed charges of perjury, obstruction and conspiracy against Vice President Gary Schultz and President Graham Spanier, along with obstruction and conspiracy against Athletics Director Tim Curley.

“Ms. Baldwin did not adequately explain to Curley that her representation of him was solely as an agent of Penn State and that she did not represent his individual interests,” Judge Mary Jane Bowes wrote in her opinion covering Curley.

“Although Curley was certainly aware that Ms. Baldwin was general counsel for Penn State, this awareness did not result in Curley knowing that she represented him solely in an agency capacity.”

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Sandusky, the Penn State football team’s former defensive coordinator, was convicted in 2012 on 45 counts of sexual abuse involving 10 boys between 1994 and 2009.

He met all of his victims through his Second Mile foundation, a nonprofit for underprivileged children in Pennsylvania.

The scandal rocked the school’s campus, as legendary coach Joe Paterno was fired in November 2011 and died two months later at age 85.

A school-commissioned investigation by former FBI director Louis Freeh found that Spanier, Schultz and Curley all knew about the suspected child abuse but failed to report the abuse to the proper authorities.

“Four of the most powerful people at The Pennsylvania State University — (Spanier, Schultz, Curley and Paterno) — failed to protect against a child sexual predator harming children for over a decade,” the report said.

“These men concealed Sandusky’s activities from the Board of Trustees, the University community and authorities.”

The NCAA did not conduct its own investigation but hit the school with a $60 million fine, four-year postseason ban, scholarship reductions, and vacated victories during the years of abuse based on the so-called Freeh Report.