Pennsylvania State University, home of the storied Nittany Lions football team and its legendary coach, Joe Paterno, was rocked by allegations that one of Paterno’s former assistants, Jerry Sandusky, was charged with sexually assaulting eight young, disadvantaged boys.
The point of the article I posted earlier today, about former Pennsylvania State Senator Vincent Fumo, was abuse of power. This sex abuse scandal is a variation of the same theme. Sandusky’s inappropriate behavior went on for years, probably because no one wanted to challenge a football dynasty.
According to the grand jury report:
• In 1998, Sandusky brought an 11-year-old boy into a Penn State locker room shower and behaved inappropriately. The boy’s mother reported it to Penn State University police. After a lengthy investigation, the Centre County District Attorney decided there would be no criminal charges.
• In 2000, a janitor saw Sandusky in the showers with an 11- to 13-year-old boy pinned against the wall, performing oral sex. He was distraught as he told his fellow janitors and his supervisor what he witnessed. But most of the janitors were new employees, and they were afraid that if they reported what had happened, they would lose their jobs.
• In 2002, a Penn State graduate assistant witnessed Sandusky having anal sex with a 10-year-old boy in the locker room showers. The graduate assistant told Joe Paterno. Paterno told his supervisor, Athletic Director Tim Curley. There were a few meetings, but no official investigation. In the end, all that happened was that Sandusky was told he could no longer bring boys to Penn State. Then, when the grand jury investigated, both Curley and the university’s Senior Vice President for Finance and Business Gary Schultz, downplayed the incident.
For more, read reporting in the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Ex-Penn State coach charged with sex crimes
Paterno says all at Penn State were fooled by Sandusky
Read the grand jury presentment
MoonDancer
Katydids – I think that is wonderful, what your neighbors did for you, what great memories that has given your life. And they didnt ask for a medal or special recognition for it either, they were simply put ‘ good people’..
MoonDancer
Lighten up folk’s, it’s saturday night live !.
Louise
KatyDid:
🙂 No…just wondered. I guess only because I thought he was gay, but you all set me straight on that. So then my thoughts went to thinking that even if he is not gay, I wonder if he does have sex with the wife. But I was wondering if he doesn’t because they didn’t have children of their own. I know that could be because one or both of them had some physical problem that kept them from conceiving, but hmmmm, makes me wonder. NOOOO, not being voyeuristic! At least not with that crap!! Haha!! I guess it’s just my curiosity…wondering what makes these pervs tick.
Louise
skylar:
Good points and they all make sense. Yep, forbidden fruit…whatever or whoever that may be.
Sorry to hear you had such a stunning body and your spath ignored you or whatever and went elsewhere. They are sick, sick, sick.
MoonDancer
Louise – A sociopath is neither gay or straight, they will screw anything..I repeat….
If you are wonderin if he was, then he was .
I was and still am stunned and shocked to find out my x was not gay….
Stargazer
I think I mentioned that years ago, I dated and lived with a guy that I found out years later was a pedophile. He loved sex, and we had a pretty normal sex life. In many ways he was a very normal and very sweet guy. He just happened to be (apparently) attracted to children, too. I don’t think there is really a formula you can follow in this regard, as far as who they will and won’t have sex with and what kind of sex they will and won’t have.
Up until the day I left him, he never stopped being attracted to me. That’s why I was stunned to find out he had molested a bunch of children. I don’t even know how he found the time between his day job and his night musician gig. It took me a long time to make sense of this revelation. I knew there was something not quite right about him, and he seemed to lack a sense of “appropriateness” around other people, but it didn’t seem particularly sexual. For instance, I took him to some sort of church service I’d been invited to. I hardly knew the people, and he had never met them. The speaker gave a very moving talk. We went up to talk to her afterward and he hugged her. It seemed really over-the-top. He did a lot of little things like this that added up. It made me feel like he was ungrounded and lacking in appropriate boundaries. I do believe this was the case.
Louise
Hens:
Your x wasn’t gay? I am confused now! 🙂
I wasn’t talking about my X spath…I was talking about Jerry Sandusky.
skylar
Star,
was he attracted to little boys or little girls or both?
Shalom
My ex-spath was not straight.
Louise
skylar:
Good question. Why does most of the time it seems like it’s little boys?? Is it because that is more perverted? Wanting little girls is perverted enough, but wanting little boys is even more so.