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
Shalom
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/DA-Who-Never-Charged-Sandusky-Has-Been-Missing-Since-2005-133615093.html
DA who did not procecute Sandusky has been missing since 2005.
Louise
I heard that days ago. I believe we have only begun to skim the surface with all this…
MiLo
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
skylar
Wow. this smells of spaths on multiple levels.
More heads must roll.
And the students protesting and rioting over the firing of a coach who has shown that he has no conscience, should all be butt-f***ed with something. THEN they can protest.
ErinBrock
And just like any spath story……….there are Many many twists and turns……YES…..we have only just begun folks!
Buckle up!
ErinBrock
Ironic how the Penn kids are now rioting?
If he was allowed to coach this weekend on out……i’m sure they’d be rioting to get him fired…..
Now that the board fired him…..they are rioting in support?
WTF?
It just goes to show…..people like walking the fence line!
We sway sooooooo easily!
Fucking Lemers! just follow the rest of em!
Shalom
I am feeling nothing but rage about this whole thing.
sistersister
Thanks, @LadySweetG, for informing us of the Penn State track record on football players. Yuck!
This is shocking. Pursuant to my post on the “porn 101” article, this blind spot among men never ceases to amaze. If it’s OK to have educational sessions about racism and sexual harassment in the workplace, why are we not holding awareness sessions for men on how they might be looking the other way when things like this happen? At the very least, it should be “training 101” for every man pursuing a career in youth sports coaching.
MoonDancer
Alot of bad behavior is overlooked or swept under the rug in the name of Football or any college sports, there is big money in college sports, same thing goes on in high school, bubba can play football but he cant spell jakchit…and look at these stoopid parents that get in fights at school ball games.. and these idiots that are protesting the firing of this banana nosed moron cant spell = ‘I am stupid….”just goes to show you what kind of future this planet has — grim..
Louise
Hens:
All you said is true, but why isn’t McQueary being fired? This whole thing stinks!