The Second Mile, a charity started by former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky to help underprivileged youth, is expected to fold, according to the New York Times.
David Woodle, Second Mile's chief executive, told the Times that the organization is looking to transfer its funds to other nonprofit organizations in the wake of the child sex abuse allegations that led to Sandusky's arrest and that has left the charity in disarray. The idea would be to transfer them to another organization that specializes in helping youths.
"We're working hard to figure out how the programs can survive this event," Woodle told the paper. "We aren't protective of this organization that it survives at all costs.
Sandusky started the foundation in 1977. The Grand Jury report outlining the 40 counts of abuse for which Sandusky was arrested, states that the former coach used The Second Mile to meet his alleged victims. He retired from the charity in 2010.
The report also stated that former Penn State athletic director Tim Curley went to the foundation in 2002 to tell them that Sandusky had been told he could no longer bring children to the PSU facilities after then graduate assistant Mike McQueary claimed to have seen Sandusky rape a child in the showers.
Woodle declined to comment on that when asked about it for the Times report.
The Second Mile has launched its own internal investigation in which, the Times states, the organization will investigate the "extent of contact Sandusky had with children who went through the program, when the program learned about various allegations against Sandusky and how it handled them."
