US college at centre of child sex abuse scandal fined $60m

An American college at the centre of a child sex abuse scandal has been fined $60m (just under €50m).

But the country’s National Collegiate Athletic Association stopped short of shutting down Penn State’s entire football programme.

Other sanctions include being stripped of all once-legendary coach Joe Paterno’s victories from 1998-2011.

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