Over the past two years Iowa organizations have received more than 400-thousand dollars of the penalty money Penn State University paid the N-C-Double-A after one of its assistant football coaches was found guilty of child sex abuse. Steve Scott is executive director of Prevent Child Abuse Iowa.
Prevent Child Abuse Iowa is using its latest 27-thousand dollar from this fund to spread the message that child abuse and neglect leads to long-term physical problems in adulthood.
Prevent Child Abuse Iowa will use part of the grant money to launch community projects in Black Hawk, Johnson, Lee and Wapello Counties to raise awareness of child abuse. There will be two more years of grants from Penn State’s penalty payments in the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky (san-DUSS-kee) scandal. Sandusky was convicted of 45 counts of child sex abuse in mid-2012 and sentenced to 60 years in prison.
