SCRANTON, Pa. (MCT) — Penn State’s trustees pledged to take full responsibility for the child sex-abuse scandal that has smeared the university’s reputation, saying Thursday that the board and administration failed.

“At the moment of truth, the people who were in a position to protect children and confront a predator, including people at the highest levels of responsibility at the university, specifically Graham Spanier, Joe Paterno, Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, did not put the welfare of children first,” said Ken Frazier, who led the trustees task force.