Remember: Katherine Genovese admitted in 2008 that The Second Mile "already had concerns about Sandusky and certain boys."
Second Mile official had concerns about Jerry Sandusky and certain boys in 2008
By
The Patriot-News
on November 15, 2011
STATE COLLEGE — One of the biggest questions surrounding
the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal has been whether anyone at his charity, The Second Mile, suspected anything.
The Patriot-News has learned that, in 2008, Second Mile executive
Katherine Genovese told a person in authority that the charity already had concerns about Sandusky and certain boys.
That conversation is said to have occurred in late 2008 around the same time that a Clinton County boy came forward with detailed allegations of sexual abuse. He became Victim One in the grand jury investigation.
Genovese, the vice president of development, is married to Jack Raykovitz, who resigned Sunday as Second Mile CEO.
Raykovitz and Genovese were paid more than $233,000 combined by the charity last year, according to tax records.
Between September 2001 and August 2010, Raykovitz’s salary increased 40 percent. During the same period, his wife’s salary rose 55 percent, tax records show.
People are asking The Second Mile who knew what and when.
In response, the charity’s board of directors — the ones sticking with the organization — hired former Philadelphia District Attorney
Lynne Abraham to conduct an internal investigation.
Abraham will be in charge of finding out how much employees knew and how much was shared about the sexual assaults that have been alleged in a 23-page grand jury presentment, interim CEO David Woodle said.
Raykovitz’s departure and Abraham’s investigation came as cracks in the charity organization started to show.
Abraham’s investigation is now the fourth —along with Penn State, the attorney general and the U.S. Department of Education — to examine the allegations of child sex abuse and widespread cover-up.
Gov. Tom Corbett has said the attorney general’s grand jury investigation is now looking at what The Second Mile did and didn’t do.
“We’ve put in this internal investigation at our own initiative to review all the events up to this date and talk to everybody,” Woodle said.
Woodle, vice chairman of the board of directors, would only say Raykovitz stepped down for the good of the organization. He would not say what Raykovitz might have told the board about an alleged incident on Penn State’s campus in 2002 that was never reported to police.
When he was asked about any concerns expressed by Genovese about Sandusky in 2008, Woodle had no comment.
Genovese is still working for the organization, Woodle said. Repeated attempts to contact Genovese by phone at her home on Monday were not successful.
When asked if he had ever heard allegations against Sandusky before 2008, Woodle, 56, said the full history will be detailed in Abraham’s investigation.
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