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Disgraced Former Penn State DC Jerry Sandusky (convicted child molester)

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Two things - they're trying to cover their own ass from potential litigation, and Curley needs to be sent the the appropriate circle of hell.
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This would be a good start:

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Didn't know, or didn't want to know? The PBS news reporter stated that a grad assistant told Paterno and that Paterno cut him off, "I don't want to to hear the details." Joe Pa told the grad student to take it to the AD -- it's a week and a half later that the AD sits down with the student and Curley -- 10 days!!??

Given the general homophobia in sports, it's hard for me to believe that this was ignored, unless denial played a big part in the thinking of Joe and staff.
 
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March 2, 2002 -- A graduate assistant allegedly tells Coach Joe Paterno that he saw Sandusky in the locker room shower on Mar. 1 with a young boy. The retired defense coordinator was engaging in anal sex with the boy, believed to be no more than 10 years old.

March 3, 2002 -- Paterno reports the incident to Athletic Director Tim Curley. Paterno tells Curley the grad student had seen Sandusky "fondling or doing something of a sexual nature to a young boy." The graduate assistant is called to a meeting with Curley and Schultz.
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Deadspin shows a copy of a program from 2009 - Sandusky was still holding a sleep-over football camp for kids at a Penn State satellite facility.

So Joe - even if you were thinking of Murder She Wrote or old Danny Thomas episodes when you were told about the events by McQuery- it does NOT matter if he was in full bore anal sex with a kid or just "fondling or doing something of a sexual nature to a young boy".....

You do NOT let your pal hold camps at Penn State facilities knowing that perv is doing over-nighters with kids - seven years later.

http://deadspin.com/5856887/as-rece...football-camp-for-kids-on-penn-state-campuses

Oh, God! No. It cannot be true. But it is.

The Sandusky football camp was held at.......Behrend College.

http://psbehrend.psu.edu/
 
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http://www.educationlawconsortium.org/forum/2005/papers/swinton.pdf

"Criminal Liability, Failure to Report Child Abuse, and School Personnel: An Examination of History, Policy and Caselaw
Brief Summary:
Currently the criminal liability affixed to mandatory reporting statutes for school personnel is hardly more than window dressing, or a vague, unrealized threat. While the threat of criminal liability has dramatically increased reporting levels, reporting has not nearly maximized its potential. This situation contributes, or at least does little to prevent children from suffering at the hands of those entrusted with their care. Increasing the number of prosecutions of school personnel, however, would help the statutes do what they are meant to do ? protect children from the hands of their abusers."

So, it's a misdemeanor to fail to report, but a felony for the abuse itself.
 
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From another one of Deadspin's articles...

From the introduction by the co-author of "Touched".

My first real contact with Jerry Sandusky came from a rather odd question he posed to me: "How much do you weigh, young man?" I was puzzled, because I knew he wasn't interested in me as a linebacker, but I told him I weighed about 95 pounds. "Get up on that scale," he ordered. I did and the locker room scale topped out at 96.

"Not bad," Jerry said, trying to sound as mean as possible, "but you still have some work to do." Sensing my confusion, Jerry stared at me and continued. "We gotta get you up to 100 pounds before you're ready to fight me."

Fight him? I barely knew him. "When you get to 100 pounds, it's gonna be you and me in the center of the locker room in a boxing match. Then I'll show you who the real boss is. It'll be you and me eyeball-to-belly button."
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Sports Ilustrated - 20 Dec 1999


Whatever problems the census takers in State College, Pa., might have, they don't come from the Penn State coaching staff. Joe Paterno, who turns 73 on Dec. 21, is in his 50th year at the university, the last 34 as head coach, and he still runs gassers with the linemen at practice. Five of Paterno's assistants (including his son, Jay) played under him in Happy Valley, four have been on his staff for more than 20 seasons, and two turned down major head coaching jobs to stay in State College. So when someone from the fold takes his leave, it is big news. When that someone is Jerry Sandusky, four years a Penn State player, 32 years a Penn State assistant and 23 years the defensive coordinator at Linebacker U, it is worth a standing ovation.

That's what Sandusky, 55, received from 96,480 fans before the Michigan game on Nov. 13, when he ran onto the Beaver Stadium sod for the last time as a Nittany Lions coach. Among the players who embraced him at midfield was his son Jon, a reserve defensive back. Among those cheering from the sidelines was another son, Matt, a Penn State manager.

Matt Sandusky, 20, used to have a different last name. He was a troubled kid from a town near State College. When he was eight, he got involved with a program called the Second Mile that Sandusky had started in 1981 to help kids like Matt. But it wasn't enough to keep him on the straight and narrow. When Matt was 15 he ran afoul of the law?"I'd rather not say for what," he says?and was put on probation. Jerry and Dottie Sandusky took him in as a foster child and adopted him two years later. Result? Matt is now a junior at Penn State and expects to graduate next year with a degree in guidance.

"My life changed when I came to live here," says Matt. "There were rules, there was discipline, there was caring. Dad put me on a workout program. He gave me someone to talk to, a father figure I never had. I have no idea where I'd be without him and Mom. I don't even want to think about it. And they've helped so many kids besides me."

Around central Pennsylvania, Jerry's Kids has nothing to do with a Labor Day telethon. With the proceeds from his book, Developing Linebackers the Penn State Way, and a lot of hope, Sandusky started the Second Mile, which began as a group foster home. Today the organization has 20 full-time employees, hundreds of volunteers and a fund-raising machine that rustles up about $1 million per year; through a network of school-and community-based programs it reaches about 100,000 at-risk youngsters. Jerry and Dottie have done more than their share of personal reaching, too. All told the Sanduskys have six children, all adopted, three as infants, three after having had them in foster care. Besides Matt and Jon, 22, the Sandusky lineup consists of Ray, 36, a businessman in Nashville; E.J., 30, who played center for the Nittany Lions and is the football coach at Albright College; Kara, 27, a Penn State grad who is married and works at the university; and Jeff, 24, a Marine who is stationed in North Carolina. "Who knows how any of us would've ended up if we hadn't become Sanduskys," says E.J.

Who knows how countless others would've ended up had Sandusky's organization not gotten involved. Partly because of his Second Mile responsibilities, Sandusky turned down a prime head coaching opportunity, at Maryland in 1991, and his decision to retire at the end of this season (his last game will be the Dec. 28 Alamo Bowl against Texas A&M) was partly based on his wanting to get more involved in fund-raising and program development for the organization. "Jerry has always been our heart and soul," says Hank Lesch, Second Mile's vice president of development.

If Sandusky did not have such a human side, there would be a temptation around Happy Valley to canonize him: Saint Sandusky, leader of linebackers, molder of men.

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Right now I'm a lot more concerned about the young men whose lives were irreparably damaged than about placing blame among PSU administration. And I think it's responsible to let the criminal justice system in Pennsylvania deal with this mess, and to comment very little in the interim.

Gloating over this quagmire is pretty sick too, IMO.
 
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Some people have brought up the odd coincidence regarding Ray Gricar's disappearance. It just popped into my mind to wonder if a family member or friend of the child from the 98 case that he decided not to prosecute decided to take out their frustration on him, that is a potentially more likely culprit than the "PSU had him offed" conspiracy theories...although admittedly Sandusky would be the first target under that scenario.
 
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JoePa will not be answering questions about the scandal in tomorrow's press conference:

Media planning to attend Tuesday's Penn State Football weekly teleconference are advised that that primary focus of the teleconference is to answer questions related to Penn State's Senior Day game with Nebraska this Saturday. Head coach Joe Paterno and any Penn State Football student-athletes in attendance will be answering questions about the Nebraska game, Penn State's season thus far and other topics related to the current college football season.
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Bucky32;2029972; said:
JoePa will not be answering questions in tomorrow's press conference:
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People are going to blast him for that but realistically it's the only possible option for him in regards to an ongoing investigation. Still, they really should have explained that in the press release.
 
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