Ex-Penn State athletic director Curley out of prison, serves 2 1/2 months

In this March 13, 2017, file photo, former Penn State Athletic Director Tim Curley leaves the Dauphin County Courthouse in Harrisburg, Pa. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive.com via AP, File)

BELLEFONTE, Pa. — BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) - Former Penn State athletic director Tim Curley has been released from jail after 2½ months and is now serving the house-arrest portion of his sentence in the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal.

Pennlive.com (http://bit.ly/2ybExwS ) reports the 63-year-old defendant was released from the Centre County jail on Oct. 3.

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He had been sentenced to seven to 23 months in jail after pleading guilty in March to child endangerment for not properly investigating a complaint by a Penn State assistant coach that Sandusky abused a boy in a locker room shower.

Curley must now serve four months on house arrest followed by two years on probation.

Curley was released less than a month after former university vice president Gary Schultz finished his six- to-23 month jail term for the same crime. Schultz is also serving house arrest and probation.