Penn State fined $2.4 million for failures related to Sandusky child abuse

Penn State University was hit with a $2.4 million fine on Thursday by the U.S. Department of Education for its mishandling of child molestation complaints against convicted former football coach Jerry Sandusky. The department issued the penalty alongside a scathing 239-page report that capped a five-year investigation into how the school complied with a federal law, the Clery Act, requiring schools to report campus crimes and warn students of any danger. The school violated the law when it failed to alert its students and employees that Sandusky was going to be criminally charged in 2011, according to the department.

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