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

[LightningRod]

The carnival continues.

Sandusky "distraught" over Paterno retirement, developments at Penn State

The attorney representing former Penn State coach and The Second Mile founder, Jerry Sandusky, said his client learned of Coach Joe Paterno?s announcement that he will retire, and is ?distraught? over the latest developments at Penn State.
While Sandusky maintains he is innocent, ?he is saddened by what is happening to the reputation of Penn State,? Amendola said. ?He feels absolutely awful. They?re taking down an entire athletic department."
Amendola said he spoke Wednesday morning with Sandusky, who is still at his State College residence, which is staked out by media. Amendola said he's already at work on Sandusky?s defense, and is still in the early stages of assembling a team. He declined to comment further on the case.
?Jerry and I are both saddened by the rush to judgment,? he said. ?Much more is going to come out in our defense.?
Amendola noted that some recent news reports have indicated that Sandusky confessed wrongdoing in regards to an alleged 1998 incident with a boy in a shower.
?Jerry never said that, but he did apologize for being in the shower ? not for sexual activity,? Amendola said.

 

[Deety]

Attention Mike McQueary:

If you see a child being raped in front of your eyes, and the best you can come up with is to walk out on the situation and call your dad, maybe tell your boss tomorrow morning, then you are a complete and utter failure as a human being.

Can you imagine the horror of the victim finding out he could have been rescued... and the man who could have been his rescuer just... walked away?

 

[Muck]

While Sandusky maintains he is innocent, "he is saddened by what is happening to the reputation of Penn State,"
Amendola said. " He feels absolutely awful. They're taking down an entire athletic department."

Die
Die
Die
Die
Die

And your client too.

 

[Bucky32]

RT @lensmith22 BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) - US Education Department to investigate Penn State's handling of child abuse case

Now they're fucked.

 

[Tonyank]

Now they're fucked.

very much fucked!


http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_n...igate-if-penn-state-officials-violated-us-law

Feds investigate if Penn State officials violated US law
By Michael Isikoff
NBC News National Investigative Correspondent
Federal officials will investigate whether Penn State officials violated federal law by failing to report alleged sexual abuse by the school's former football defense coordinator Jerry Sandusky.
Justin Hamilton, a spokesman for Education Secretary Arne Duncan, confirmed to NBC News that the department was launching a probe into whether there were possible violations of a federal law called the Clery Act. It requires colleges and universities to publish and distribute information about criminal offenses -- including sex offenses -- that are reported to school authorities.

 

[BB73]

Can you imagine the horror of the victim finding out he could have been rescued... and the man who could have been his rescuer just... walked away?

According to the presentment, both Sandusky and Victim 2 realized that McQueary saw them. The kid must have wondered why the big red-headed guy just left, instead of helping him get away from his abuser.

 

[LightningRod]

The last reporter Penn St admins want to see snooping around is Michael Isikoff.

 

[CentralMOBuck]

http://www.1059thex.com/pages/markmadden.html?article=9360172

Mark Madden was initially measured, but not here.

Madden: Sandusky a State secret

The date the article is from? April 3, 2011

The comments back then don't seem to be very different from the actions of Penn Staters now....

This has got to be the worst piece of journalism I have ever seen. What knowledge do you have of this? I am unsubscribing from this newspaper solely because of this rag of an article

This isn't journalism it is a column. It is supposed to be provocative -- to make you think. I think it is more an indictment of the journalists covering sports in this area that these sorts of suspicions are not investigated and reported despite an 18 month grand jury investigation to lead the way.

Best-case scenario: Charges are never brought, and Sandusky walks away with his reputation permanently scarred. The rumors, the jokes, the sideways glances

Oh, you mean the rumors Madden has no problem throwing out whether or not they are based in fact? This typical character assassination is something that never should have seen the light of day, and it's a shame the Times sees no problems still writing this guy a check to put out unsubstantiated garbage like this

 

[NFBuck]

Fuck state penn and their "omerta".

 

[Muck]

The date the article is from - April 3, 2011

Good work by Madden. Anyone know if any other whispers about this story about this broke earlier?

 

[Tonyank]

Good work by Madden. Anyone know if any other whispers about this story about this broke earlier?

Check the first post in this thread.

 

[alexhortdog95]

very much fucked!


http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_n...igate-if-penn-state-officials-violated-us-law

Federal officials view the Clery Act as a lever to prod schools to be more aggressive about investigating and prosecuting crimes on campus. Last March, Virginia Tech University was fined $55,000 for waiting too long to inform students about a gunman on the loose during a 2007 shooting rampage that killed 32 people at the school.

Although violations of the Clery Act are punishable by civil fines, officials say schools worry most about the damage that publicized violations can do to their reputations.

You mean their reputation isn't already damaged?

 

[Jake]

The question those who are still sympathetic to Joe Paterno need to ask themselves is a simple one:

If the boy McQueary saw in the shower with Sandusky was Joe Pa's grandson, would Joe have handled it differently? Would he have been so casual about it?

 

[MaliBuckeye]

Good work by Madden. Anyone know if any other whispers about this story about this broke earlier?

SIAP, but this story seems to think that there were lots of things going on in Happy Valley that people were willing to overlook

Players were constantly getting into violent altercations with other students when I was at Penn State. There were fights at the ice skating rink, the union building at the center of campus, frats, apartments, houses. I covered one sexual assault trial -- for former Ravens cornerback Anwar Phillips, who was acquitted but went on to stay classy (what the link fails to note is that after "accepting responsibility" for his role in the incident at Penn State, Phillips was allowed to play in a bowl game before serving his two-semester suspension) -- and looked into probably a half-dozen others that never went to trial. Women were fearful they'd never get a fair trial in State College. Victims of beatings knew the scales of justice were already tilted against them. ESPN actually compiled numbers to show just how rambunctious it got in Happy Valley, reporting that from 2002 to 2008 there were 46 players charged with 163 counts.
Yet none of it stuck. Penn State remained a place where they "did it the right way." Paterno's public relations savvy certainly helped. It was Paterno, after all, who'd wooed reporters across the state as a young man with his stories of scholar-athletes who excelled on the field and were engaged in the classroom. Later in his career, Paterno's wisdom was solidly established and he could get away with swatting real questions by reminding reporters that he'd been around a long time.

 

[Muck]