http://www.amazon.com/Touched-Jerry-Sandusky-Story/dp/1582613575 (http://www.amazon.com/Touched-Jerry-Sandusky-Story/dp/1582613575)
::facepalm::
AP Source: Paterno to retire at end of season (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9QT9A983&show_article=1)
I say no way. He will be crucified on opposing fields. Hell, probably at home, also.
BUT, can you IMAGINE how those two boys felt when they saw a man there who could save them, and then seeing that man run away? The wound from that might have been worse than the wound from Sandusky himself. Those boys knew Sandusky was a pervert. What must have been hell for them was trying to figure out why the men who COULD have saved them, didn't. Being abandoned is far, far worse than being violently attacked.
Well, we're going to find out if trading swag for tattoos are worse crimes in the NCAA than aiding and abetting child rape.
We're going to find out what's worse, having a cookout for a prospective player, or raping that players little brother.
It's time I find out whether or not I'm going to cosign the NCAA to my personal dustbin of supporting history with pro sports.
I'm really getting tired of everything I love in life becoming corrupted by leftism, or the general culture rot in this country.
Players said Paterno was emotional when he announced his decision. Many said it was the first time they have seen him cry.
And the students riot.
As an armchair quarterback, it's easy to say what we would have done in his shoes.
It sounds like he did meet his legal obligation just not his moral one
Under Pennsylvania’s Child Protective Services Law, a wide range of professionals who come in contact with children and have a “reasonable cause to suspect” that a child in the care of their organization has been abused are required to report it or face criminal charges.reuters story here (http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Football+Penn+State+case+puts+spotlight+Pennsylvania+child+abuse+reporting/5682806/story.html#ixzz1dJx6d0id)
The law was tightened in 2007 after a 2005 grand jury report into a sexual abuse scandal at the Catholic archdiocese of Philadelphia. That report revealed that pastors of parishes knew of incidents of child sexual abuse by priests.
But because the pastors did not hear from the children directly, they did not report the incidents because they had been advised they were not required to, according to Frank Cervone, executive director for the Support Center for Child Advocates.
At that point, the legislature intervened and the law no longer requires the child to come forward.
In the case of Curley and Schultz, the toughened standards may not make a difference because the events occurred in 2002, before the changes were made to the law. As a result, Curley and Schultz may argue they had no legal duty to report the allegations because the child did not report the offense to them, said Cathleen Palm, executive director of Protect Our Children Committee.
“It is possible that we now know was a major loophole in our law was at play in this particular case,” Palm said.
According to the grand jury report, Paterno called Curley the day after hearing the allegations from the eyewitness. About a week and a half later, the eyewitness was called to a meeting with Curley and Schultz where he recounted what he had seen.
Under that version of events, Paterno appeared to fulfill his obligation under the law, Cervone said.
“A subordinate can discharge his mandatory reporting responsibility by reporting to his boss,” Cervone said.
At a news conference on Monday, Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly appeared to back up that view when she said that Paterno is not a target of its investigation.
“He had a responsibility to report the incident to the school authorities and he did it,” said Kelly.
While Paterno appeared to fulfill his legal duty after being told about the locker room incident, that should not end the scrutiny of Paterno’s actions, Palm said.
In April, Pittsburgh radio host Mark Madden wrote a story revealing Penn State for much of the cover-up of Jerry Sandusky's alleged child rape that has been exposed in the past week. While it didn't raise many eyebrows back then, six months later it looks to be incredibly accurate.
On Thursday morning, just hours after legendary head coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier were fired by the school's board of trustees, Madden was asked on The Dennis and Callahan Show what he believes the next piece of news will be.
What he said was twice as shocking as anything that's been released thus far.
"I can give you a rumor and I can give you something I think might happen," Madden told John Dennis and Gerry Callahan. "I hear there's a rumor that there will be a more shocking development from the Second Mile Foundation -- and hold on to your stomachs, boys, this is gross, I will use the only language I can -- that Jerry Sandusky and Second Mile were pimping out young boys to rich donors. That was being investigated by two prominent columnists even as I speak."
After the news spread, Madden later explained via Twitter why he went public with the rumors.
"I normally abhor giving RUMORS credence," Madden wrote. "But whole Sandusky scandal started out as a RUMOR. It gets deeper and more disgusting all the time. One of state's top columnists investigating. That adds credence. I am NOT rumor's original source. [Why does] Sandusky deserve benefit of doubt?"
Madden also spoke more definitively on Dennis and Callahan to the cover-up efforts at the school and beyond that he expects will be made public soon.
"The other thing I think that may eventually become uncovered, and I talked about this in my original article back in April, is that I think they'll find out that Jerry Sandusky was told that he had to retire in exchange for a cover-up," Madden said. "If you look at the timeline, that makes perfect sense, doesn't it?
"My opinion is when Sandusky quit, everybody knew -- not just at Penn State," Madden added. "I think it was a very poorly kept secret about college football in general, and that is why he never coached in college football again and retired at the relatively young age of 55. [That's] young for a coach, certainly."
::speechless::
If any part of that allegation is true, this University might as well shut down and get bulldozed!
Another odd story...
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/DA-Who-Never-Charged-Sandusky-Has-Been-Missing-Since-2005-133615093.html (http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/DA-Who-Never-Charged-Sandusky-Has-Been-Missing-Since-2005-133615093.html)
Is Penn St run by the mob?
::whatgives::
...This district attorney had “a bitter taste in his mouth for the [Penn State] program, and its coach,” according to his nephew, and never prosecuted Sandusky. He disappeared on April 15, 2005 after telling his girlfriend that he was going on a drive.
Ray Gricar’s car was found the next day in a Lewisburg parking lot and his laptop, sans hard drive, was found in the Susquehanna River, according to the Patriot-News.
Ray Gricar’s friend, Montour County District Attorney Robert Buehner Jr., told the New York Times that if the ardent district attorney had committed suicide, he would have wanted his body found. But in the case of possible foul play, no suspects have emerged from investigations.
When it comes to the Sandusky case, friends and former co-workers are all of the opinion that Ray Gricar would never back down from a righteous prosecution.
“No one got a bye with Ray,” Anthony De Boef, who was an assistant district attorney under Gricar for five years told the NY Times. “He didn’t care who you were; he had a job to do.”
And, despite the fact that Ray Gricar had the mother of one of the alleged victims confront Sandusky while police listened, the 1998 report on Sandusky was labeled “unfounded” by the District Attorney’s Office, reports the Patriot-News.
And now one reason there might be something—something—to this. Here's a text exchange I had with a journalist in Pittsburgh:
Him: FYI, he ain't bluffing here.
Me: How do you know?
Him: I don't know for sure. I just know he is confident in what he has.
Me: He's also a professional troll who loves attention. He's going on radio stations all over the country today.
Him: Separate his on-air persona with journalistic chops. Mark was a hell of a reporter. Don't dismiss him.
Me: We have the audio of his comments. He calls it a rumor.
Him: Fair. I know Mark well. I just have a very strong feeling he's not bluffing here.
I heard a caller on a talk radio show today float the idea that Paterno might have been a participant in Sandusky's boy bordello. That would explain all those years of looking the other way.
‘Of course we’re going to riot,” Paul Howard, a 24-year-old aerospace-engineering student at Penn State University, told the New York Times. “What do they expect when they tell us at 10 o’clock that they fired our football coach?”
...
Perhaps that’s why a “right to riot” has become a staple of campus culture across the country, particularly at big schools. Students riot when administrators take away their beer. They riot when they lose games. They riot when they win games. They riot when the cops try to break up parties. Inconvenience itself has become outrageous.
I wonder how Sandusky's going to feel about being " The Boogie-Woogie Bugger-Boy Of Cell Block B " ! ::puke::
I'm Considering Relocating to Sodom . . .
Posted by Ann Barnhardt - November 10, AD 2011 11:35 AM MST
. . . because I'm absolutely convinced that this culture, right now, today, is WORSE than Sodom or Gomorrah ever were. Sodom would be a step up.
It is now all over the internet that Sandusky was running a high-dollar pedophile ring, and that "Second Mile" was merely a front and means of recruiting and enslaving young boys who were then pimped to wealthy Penn State donors for sex.
Penn State should be shut down. Not just the football program - the entire university. Shut it down immediately. Any student of Penn State with any sense should be making arrangements to transfer to another university, because graduating from Penn State would necessitate that said person list Penn State on their resume, which will now be a major, major strike against that person. Why? Because they knowingly entered and subsidized a cult that worshiped an old man who "coached" a football team. And, as it turns out, that old man facilitated and enabled a massive pedophile ring. Further, said students, even after learning of this and seeing that "old man" fired, RIOTED last night IN SUPPORT OF THE CULT LEADER / PEDOPHILE RING ENABLER.
TIMELINE:
1998: Sandusky is investigated for an incident involving himself sexually assaulting a young boy in the Penn State showers. Child Protective Services investigate. The university is fully notified.
1999: Sandusky, age 55, is suddenly forced into retirement at his prime, when all previous indications were that he was the heir-apparent to Paterno, who was 72 years old at the time. The retirement package is now thought to have been in exchange for Penn State covering up Sandusky's pedophilia. Sandusky's pedophilia is being called a "poorly kept secret" in the world of Division I football, which explains why one of the top coaches in the nation was not even offered any other position after Penn State.
2000: Despite being retired from Penn State and no longer being in the employment of Penn State or Paterno, Sandusky has unfettered access to the Penn State facilities and travels with the team. In the fall of 2000 a janitor catches Sandusky orally raping a young boy in the football team's showers after hours. Sandusky OBVIOUSLY had keys and passcards which gave him full access despite being no longer "employed" by PSU or Paterno.
2002: Sandusky is caught AGAIN in the showers, this time anally raping a young boy, and is caught by Mike McQueary, who is now an assistant coach. Sandusky STILL has keys and passcards to PSU facilities.
2009: Grand jury investigation begins after a 15 year old boy reported Sandusky to police. Penn State top brass, including Paterno, are called to testify. Sandusky is still seen using PSU football facilities.
Week of 10/30-11/5, 2011: Sandusky is seen working out in a PSU football weight room.
They all knew. Not only that, but Sandusky felt "safe" using the PSU football facilities and showers as his rape room, and was indeed caught repeatedly with zero consequences. Think about that. Sandusky was CAUGHT red handed in the showers sexually assaulting boys in 1998 and 2000, and there was even an investigation as a result of the 1998 incident, and yet Sandusky still felt so "safe" at PSU that he continued to bring boys there to be raped. He continued to hang around the team and be seen in the near-constant company of young boys. Sandusky's confidence is extremely telling.
Penn State should be shut down, and anyone who knew about this should be facing down multi-decade prison sentences. Paterno should die in prison.
Pedophiles should be executed. Justice, in charity, demands it. Find every single participant in the "Second Mile" pedophile ring and let justice be done swiftly upon him.
UPDATE: POSSIBLE MURDER LINKAGE?
The Centre County District Attorney who sparred with Penn State over Sandusky, but never prosecuted, was murdered in 2005. Ray Gricar's empty car was found in a parking lot on April 16, 2005, and his laptop, missing its hard drive, was found nearby in the Susquehanna River. Gricar's body has never been found, and he was declared dead earlier this year.
Pedophile and sex slavery rings are some of the most dangerous, powerful and wealthy criminal organizations in the world.
Citation here. (http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/DA-Who-Never-Charged-Sandusky-Has-Been-Missing-Since-2005-133615093.html)
Our red brothers had techniques fitting for
him and all the associated. They probably
had appropriate techniques for those that
ran from their responsibility also. ::wartomtoms::
Our red brothers had techniques fitting for
him and all the associated. They probably
had appropriate techniques for those that
ran from their responsibility also. ::wartomtoms::
Ha!
I was thinking more along the lines of stakes, honey and ants.
What about " Little Gay Wrist " in " Little Big Man " ?
The lawyer for accused pedophile and former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky reportedly impregnated a teenage girl more than a decade ago.
Joe Amendola, 63, was the attorney for Mary Iavasile’s emancipation petition from Sept. 3, 1996, which was filed just weeks before her 17th birthday, according to Centre County Courthouse documents obtained by iPad newspaper The Daily.
That’s approximately when Iavasile became pregnant with Amendola’s child, her mother, Janet Iavasile, told The Daily.
At one point, about seven minutes into the interview and after Costas asked Sandusky about the 40-count indictment he faces for sexually abusing boys over a 15-year period, and Sandusky replies that he is innocent of those charges, Costas asks Sandusky if he fits the classic MO of a pedophile.
Sandusky's reply at the 19:01:01:00 mark of the interview is perhaps the most damning of the entire session:
"Well -- you might think that," Sandusky said. "I don't know. (LAUGHS) In terms of -- my relationship with so many, many young people. I would -- I would guess that there are many young people who would come forward. Many more young people who would come forward and say that my methods and -- and what I had done for them made a very positive impact on their life. And I didn't go around seeking out every young person for sexual needs that I've helped. There are many that I didn't have -- I hardly had any contact with who I have helped in many, many ways."
"Are you sexually attracted to young boys, to underage boys?"
"Am I sexually attracted to underage boys?" Sandusky repeats.
"Yes," Costas answers.
"Sexually attracted, you know, I -- I enjoy young people," Sandusky says. "I -- I love to be around them. I -- I -- but no I'm not sexually attracted to young boys."
Of course, this is pretty telling too:Quote"Are you sexually attracted to young boys, to underage boys?"
"Am I sexually attracted to underage boys?" Sandusky repeats.
"Yes," Costas answers.
"Sexually attracted, you know, I -- I enjoy young people," Sandusky says. "I -- I love to be around them. I -- I -- but no I'm not sexually attracted to young boys."
Seems to me a simple 'yes' or 'no' would have been a pretty good answer here...
It's almost like his lawyer is trying to get this guy convicted.
Of course, this is pretty telling too:Quote"Are you sexually attracted to young boys, to underage boys?"
"Am I sexually attracted to underage boys?" Sandusky repeats.
"Yes," Costas answers.
"Sexually attracted, you know, I -- I enjoy young people," Sandusky says. "I -- I love to be around them. I -- I -- but no I'm not sexually attracted to young boys."
Seems to me a simple 'yes' or 'no' would have been a pretty good answer here...
It's almost like his lawyer is trying to get this guy convicted.
::hysterical::
Works for me!
Of course, this is pretty telling too:Quote"Are you sexually attracted to young boys, to underage boys?"
"Am I sexually attracted to underage boys?" Sandusky repeats.
"Yes," Costas answers.
"Sexually attracted, you know, I -- I enjoy young people," Sandusky says. "I -- I love to be around them. I -- I -- but no I'm not sexually attracted to young boys."
Seems to me a simple 'yes' or 'no' would have been a pretty good answer here...
It's almost like his lawyer is trying to get this guy convicted.
::hysterical::
Works for me!
I heard this excerpt today and the guy sounded like he was just asked if he liked ice cream. I think if I was accused of a horrendous crime like he has been I would've sounded a little more outraged and be more assertive about my innocence. Which leads me to wonder if this guy is a sociopath who has no feelings towards others beyond what he can get from them.
If convicted all he needs is jail in general population.
And there is this development...McQueary "stopped it",
The proper actions look obvious to me....beat down the perp, put a towel around the kid and get him the hell out of there and call the cops!
The proper actions look obvious to me....beat down the perp, put a towel around the kid and get him the hell out of there and call the cops!
WHY is it so OBVIOUS to us? I still hear people discussing this as if there was another option. ::facepalm::
The proper actions look obvious to me....beat down the perp, put a towel around the kid and get him the hell out of there and call the cops!
WHY is it so OBVIOUS to us? I still hear people discussing this as if there was another option. ::facepalm::
The proper actions look obvious to me....beat down the perp, put a towel around the kid and get him the hell out of there and call the cops!
WHY is it so OBVIOUS to us? I still hear people discussing this as if there was another option. ::facepalm::
The jury in Jerry Sandusky’s child sex abuse trial has found him “guilty” on 45 counts and “not guilty” on three counts. His bail has been revoked and he will be sent to the Center County Correctional Facility.
That guy who walked in on it in the shower room, that guy should be charged with something. Who walks on in on something like that and doesn't immediately come to the aid of that kid? You don't just go make a phone call and then shrug it off with an "oh well that's all we could do" attitude.
The whole thing is so damned disgusting I think I would have literally puked if I had to sit on that jury. If he gets put into the prison GP he's history.
So now he is on "suicide watch" .........
I'd be happy to watch if he'd off himself.
What for? He's received his Final Judgement; anything here is a gnat bite.
I understand where he was on the food chain and there are two types;
those like him and those that would have to restrain their desire to physically
respond so that they could make certain, doggedly so, legal justice was was visited upon Sandusky and that creep who ran away. Couldn't you just reach across your desk, grab him by the throat and say 'WTF? You ran?'
Oh, but they love old Joe in Philly.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/sports/ncaafootball/paterno-may-have-influenced-decision-not-to-report-sandusky-e-mails-indicate.html?pagewanted=all (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/sports/ncaafootball/paterno-may-have-influenced-decision-not-to-report-sandusky-e-mails-indicate.html?pagewanted=all)
E-mail correspondence among senior Penn State officials suggests that Paterno influenced the university’s decision not to formally report the accusation against Sandusky to the child welfare authorities,
Yup, I think PSU is toast.
http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Paterno.jpgThey have not learned a thing.
Penn State Stiffens Its Neck, Intends to Keep Statue Memorializing the POS Whose Silence Exposed Untold Numbers of Children to a Rapist (http://weaselzippers.us/2012/07/14/penn-state-stiffens-its-neck-intends-to-keep-statue-memorializing-the-pos-whose-silence-exposed-untold-numbers-of-children-to-a-predator/)Quotehttp://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Paterno.jpgThey have not learned a thing.
(ESPN) — (http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/8166643/joe-paterno-statue-remain-penn-state-sources-say) ...
...
The trustees’ reluctance to remove the statue is motivated, in part, by a desire not to offend alumni and students who adore the late coach despite the damning findings of his role in the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse cover-up ...
while Joe Paterno, the school's legendary head football coach, could have stopped the attacks had he done more, investigators said Thursday.
A couple of students have started to camp out in tents and watch over the Joe Paterno statue at Penn State. The sign says "Protect the Paterno statue"
LINK (http://www.961kiss.com/pages/freakshow.html?article=10277959)QuoteA couple of students have started to camp out in tents and watch over the Joe Paterno statue at Penn State. The sign says "Protect the Paterno statue"
Occupy Joe?
It seems the fate of Joe Paterno’s statue at Penn State has been sealed.
“Am told that Penn State plans to take down the Paterno statue this weekend,” Kim Jones of the NFL Network and WFAN reported via Twitter on Friday.
LINK (http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/07/20/kim-jones-penn-state-to-remove-paterno-statue-this-weekend/)QuoteIt seems the fate of Joe Paterno’s statue at Penn State has been sealed.
“Am told that Penn State plans to take down the Paterno statue this weekend,” Kim Jones of the NFL Network and WFAN reported via Twitter on Friday.
NCAA president Mark Emmert has decided to punish Penn State with severe penalties likely to include a significant loss of scholarships and loss of multiple bowls, a source close to the decision told ESPN's Joe Schad on Sunday morning.
But Penn State will not receive the so-called "death penalty" that would have suspended the program for at least one year, the source said.
The penalties, however, are considered to be so harsh that the death penalty may have been preferable, the source said.
The NCAA will announce "corrective and punitive measures" for Penn State on Monday morning, it said in a statement Sunday. Emmert will reveal the sanctions at 9 a.m. ET in Indianapolis at the organization's headquarters along with Ed Ray, the chairman of the NCAA's executive committee, and Oregon State's president, the news release said.
The purpose of the NCAA is to keep a level playing field among schools and to make sure they use proper methods through scholarships and etcetera. This is not a case that would normally go through the process. It has nothing to do with a level playing field.
The Big Ten Conference issued its own penalties Monday to Penn State, banning the school's football team from appearing in the Big Ten championship game for four years and stating the school won't receive any conference bowl revenue during that same span.
That revenue is estimated to total about $13 million, bringing the grand total Penn State has been fined to $73 million. Earlier Monday, the NCAA announced its own sanctions against Penn State, which included a $60-million fine.
The Big Ten stated that Penn State's share of bowl revenue will be donated to a fund for the protection of children.
The league also publicly censured Penn State for its failure to act in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
"The accepted findings support the conclusion that our colleagues at Penn State, individuals that we have known and with whom we have worked for many years, have egregiously failed on many levels -- morally, ethically and potentially criminally," read the statement from the Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chancellors.
"They have failed their great university, their faculty and staff, their students and alumni, their community and state -- and they have failed their fellow member institutions in the Big Ten Conference. For these failures, committed at the highest level of the institution, we hereby condemn this conduct and officially censure Penn State."
The lawyers are going to go after everything. The endowment will be the big prize. Currently it is listed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_the_United_States_by_endowment) at $1.725 billion.
They lose that or a significant portion thereof and the school is dead.
Punitive awards can be ugly.
The lawyers are going to go after everything. The endowment will be the big prize. Currently it is listed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_the_United_States_by_endowment) at $1.725 billion.
They lose that or a significant portion thereof and the school is dead.
Punitive awards can be ugly.
They should have tought about that when they were busy covering it up.
The lawyers are going to go after everything. The endowment will be the big prize. Currently it is listed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_the_United_States_by_endowment) at $1.725 billion.
They lose that or a significant portion thereof and the school is dead.
Punitive awards can be ugly.
They should have tought about that when they were busy covering it up.
It is obvious they didn't much care about the school or the fallout from the cover up, I'm sure in their minds this was not their fault and something nobody would blame the university for. Elitism eventually meets reality, it just takes longer to get there with these types.
The lawyers are going to go after everything. The endowment will be the big prize. Currently it is listed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_the_United_States_by_endowment) at $1.725 billion.
They lose that or a significant portion thereof and the school is dead.
Punitive awards can be ugly.
They should have tought about that when they were busy covering it up.
It is obvious they didn't much care about the school or the fallout from the cover up, I'm sure in their minds this was not their fault and something nobody would blame the university for. Elitism eventually meets reality, it just takes longer to get there with these types.
And the guy that devoted his life to that school blew his entire lifes history up to help out a POS that took advantage of his friendship to cover his own ass. In the end Paterno should have done what his heart of hearts told him he should do but didn't so he deserves what he got.
Were all responsible for what choices we make in life.
::speechless:: ::speechless::
Egads! How far does this crap go?! ::whatgives::
::puke:: ::rockets::