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

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LightningRod;2036394; said:
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"I'm innocent of these charges" Jerry Sandusky tells Bob Costas in exclusive interview airing tonight on @RockCenterNBC 10p/9c #RockCenter

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By fighting everything this is just going to keep PSU's name in the media. Hopefully enough people will realize this success with honor stuff is bullshit. Have they not been paying attention to the amount of assaults that team has committed?

As an aside, I know for a fact that this is true: Curtis Enis and a couple of the boys that played for OSU from Mercer county were chilling and talking about stuff they got while playing college ball. Curtis said the reason he left PSU (he could have gotten a suspension for a few games the next year and played the rest of the year like our Tat players) was if the NCAA came to town and did a full investigation they would have found a lot more than what he go in trouble for taking.
 
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SI article from '82.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1126185/index.htm

Three decades ago Art Sandusky was a conductor on the streetcars of Washington, Pa. and, with his wife, Evie, the owner and operator of a hot dog stand. But when the streetcars were shut down, the Sanduskys found that pushing frozen custard and foot-long red-hots in the summer months wasn't providing the wherewithal to pay their bills the year round. So they signed up as live-in directors of the Brownson House, a local recreation center that was on the verge of being closed. After the Sanduskys and their 9-year-old son, Jerry, moved in, they persuaded the town fathers to keep Brownson House going. That was back in 1953, and they have been there ever since. This goes a long way toward explaining why their son, now the Penn State football team's defensive coordinator, is, at 38, the founder of The Second Mile, a charitable organization that recently opened a group home for six troubled boys in the State College, Pa. area. The home's name comes from the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5:41?"And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain."

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Sandusky and his wife, Dottie, who couldn't have children of their own, adopted a son in 1969. Since then they have adopted four more children?current ages five through 19?and have helped raise three foster children. For a time they were a host family each summer for children placed by the Fresh Air Fund of New York City. "After we had taken in some foster children," says Dottie, "we saw the opportunities that some kids just hadn't had. But we'd gotten to the point where we couldn't take in any more, so Jerry started thinking about starting a group home. The book seemed like a good opportunity to get it off the ground." (Since Developing Linebackers was published in 1981, it has netted about $15,000.)


The Sanduskys incorporated The Second Mile in 1977. With legal help donated by a Penn State professor, they were granted tax-exempt status, and by 1980 they had raised enough money, $64,000, to buy 20 acres of farmland two miles from Beaver Stadium. Several businesses agreed to chip in the supplies for building a house, and a local contractor agreed to build it for the cost of his labor.


Houseparents were hired last spring, and The Second Mile should have its full complement of six boys by early winter. With luck, says Ron Coder, the executive director of the home, another will be started in three years.


"Naive me," says Sandusky, "sitting back there five years ago saying, 'We're going to start a group home.' If I'd sat down then and said, 'It's going to take this and that, and this many people will have to be involved,' I probably wouldn't have done it. The toughest thing has been selling something that didn't exist. I think it will be easier now that we can say, 'Look, there it is: a home and a family for six kids who didn't have either one.' "


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Growing up in Brownson House, Sandusky had observed the same thing about troubled children. "So much of what happens depends on the care and concern that people show for them," he says. "I saw so many kids come through there who never really had a family or anybody to care about them or give them any guidance at all. It always bothered me."


It hasn't bothered Sandusky that The Second Mile thus far has kept him from leaving Penn State. "Many people have talked to me about hiring him," says Paterno, "but Jerry's been reluctant to talk to them because of all the commitments he has in this area." A couple of head-coaching jobs at the college level have come and gone, as well as inquiries from Oakland and Tampa Bay about interviewing Sandusky to become a pro assistant. "A long time ago Jerry really wanted to be a head coach," says Dottie, "but now there are so many things going that he never mentions it anymore."


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"The timing hasn't been right for me or my family," says Sandusky. "It might be someday. We believe the saying, 'It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it.' Dottie and I were disappointed when we couldn't have children, but we took it as a positive thing and it gave us an opportunity to do more."


"It's the way he's always been," says Sandusky's mother, Evie. "I guess it's his nature that he's never quite happy unless he's helping somebody else."
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Originally Posted by Lester Munson
It is conceivable that the process could lead the trustees to consider a total shutdown of the football program as the best way to excise all that is wrong.
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It is even more conceivable that Lester Munson is a dimwitted attention whore.

Come on. Killing football at Penn State, much as it would be deeply satisfying at the gut level for Buckeye fans, would do fuck-all for preventing future child abuse. Munson needs to grow a brain.
 
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It is hard to sit here and listen to this sicko try and rationalize and explain away.

His lawyer is claiming they identified victim #2, but the state has not. Yeah, that isn't suspicious at all. Aren't they compelled to inform opposition of witnesses/victims?
 
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scarletmike;2036488; said:
It is hard to sit here and listen to this sicko try and rationalize and explain away.

His lawyer is claiming they identified victim #2, but the state has not. Yeah, that isn't suspicious at all. Aren't they compelled to inform opposition of witnesses/victims?
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Can someone explain the significance of this to me?

(And if the allegations are true, wouldn't Sandusky lawyer, via Sandusky, be able to identify all the victims)
 
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So he says he's innocent? Huh. Clearly, I've misjudged this guy.

I'm a bit sickened with NBC giving this guy an opportunity to try to foster sympathy from the public.

Fuck that. Let him defend himself in court.
 
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The local channel decided to start it's own round of commercials less than two minutes after coming back from commercial break and interrupted that studio segment! :pissed:

And because of that, I missed that entire last segment in the studio.
 
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I doubt someone would go on TV and say they're guilty, so I'm taking everything said by a defendant with a grain of salt.

I just think that Penn State really had to know the true story or the entire story to react the way they did. If not, they made the Duke lacrosse situation look tame (if Sandusky is acquitted).
 
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CHU;2036500; said:
I doubt someone would go on TV and say they're guilty, so I'm taking everything said by a defendant with a grain of salt.

I just think that Penn State really had to know the true story or the entire story to react the way they did. If not, they made the Duke lacrosse situation look tame (if Sandusky is acquitted).
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If the defense has started to "identify" some of the previously unidentified victims and manage to..."get their stories straight," he can still be guilty but get off. Yeah, that's a stretch of a conspiracy, but what the lawyer said certainly hints at that. Maybe Gator can shed some light on the possibilities?
 
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