Victim 1 files suit against Penn State

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    The young man whose 2009 allegations of sexual abuse led to the Penn State scandal and criminal convictions of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is asking a court to find the university also at fault.

    A lawsuit, filed Friday by the person known as Victim 1 at Sandusky's trial, says university officials made deliberate decisions not to report Sandusky to authorities.

    It describes their actions as "a function of (Penn State's) purposeful, deliberate and shameful subordination of the safety of children to its economic self-interests, and to its interest in maintaining and perpetuating its reputation."

    The complaint was filed electronically in Philadelphia state court, Slade McLaughlin, a lawyer for Victim 1, told The Associated Press. The suit names no defendants other than the State College university.
     

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