kinch;2031270; said:
To be fair, it is a hard document to read. I obviously do this for a living and only made it to Victim 3. I was too disgusted.
They need to clean house now. It cannot wait until the end of the season.
Sorry, but I believe that people having a tough time talking about what happened, or not wanting to familiarize themselves with the details, can contribute to the atmosphere of letting child abusers like Sandusky get away with what he's done.
Yeah, it's terrible. But I think it's important to face the facts.
Sandusky founded Second Mile in 1977. All of the first 8 victims mentioned in the grand jury presentment were involved in Second Mile, it's where he found his victims, and it's an organization he created under the auspices of helping 'at risk' kids.
Two policemen witnessed Sandusky saying "I wish I was dead" after he was confronted by a mother of a boy that he was lathering up with soap in the shower, and the kid had the sense to tell his mother. Sandusky wasn't charged by the DA back in '98. We probably won't know why charges weren't brought back then because the County DA went missing in 2005 and was declared dead a few months ago.
Sandusky retired as DC in 1999, but retained 'emeritus' status and an office in the football building.
A janitor (and Korean War veteran) witnessed him giving oral sex to a kid within the Penn State facilities in 2000. He didn't report it, apparently fearful of losing his job.
Sandusky was anally raping a kid that McQueary estimated to be 10 years old in 2002. Paterno was informed the next day, and the day after that (according to the grand jury presentment), Paterno told the AD and the VP that McQueary "had seen Jerry Sandusky in the Lasch Building showers fondling or doing something of a sexual nature to a young boy".
That's at least a paraphrase of JoePa's own testimony. For him to act like he didn't know a crime was alleged against Sandusky by McQueary is a crock.
The fact that JoePa had a fiefdom at PSU is a large part of the problem in the incidents not being reported and prosecuted earlier. Too many of those in power had either played for Joe or had close contacts with the Paterno family. Too many people were concerned with keeping their jobs, and with not damaging the legacy of Paterno and the football program at Penn State.
To place those concerns above the welfare of children who were being fondled, blown, and anally raped by a sexual predator is simply disgusting. They all deserve whatever punishment is coming for them.
To anybody who is disturbed by the blatant nature of that post, I'm sorry. But I'm about a trillion times more sorry for Sandusky's victims.
