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
Louise
And McQueary was put on administrative leave. Why not canned?
Ox Drover
Louise, I guess you are right, but I wish you weren’t…okay, so I’m a dreamer, I just hoped that the college kids would be more proactive and more aware of what that kind of violence does to kids, and CARE, instead…well, instead….(sigh) they aren’t what I wish they were. Makes me SAD.
Ox Drover
Louise, I think if they canned everyone involved in the cover up there wouldn’t be anyone except ONE JANITOR LEFT AT THE SCHOOL.
Louise
Oxy:
I know…it’s extremely sad. This world is a mess. An absolute mess. I’m with you.
Yeah, I think as the investigation heats up, more and more people are going to be implicated.
Ox Drover
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/10/health/survivors-penn-unrest/index.html
Ox Drover
Yea, I wonder why he kept QUIET and worked with Sandusky for all these years afterward….maybe to keep his JOB? Wonder how much he got paid?
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/football/ncaa/11/11/penn-state-mike-mcqueary.ap/index.html?sct=hp_t2_a3&eref=sihp
Louise
Oxy:
After reading the CNN link, it looks like the students were frustrated because it seemed like Paterno was being targeted while Sandusky, who actually perpetrated the crime, was flying under the radar. Not sticking up for Paterno at all, but I can see a little how the students might feel that way. Don’t bonk me with the skillet! Don’t get me wrong…they are ALL wrong and should all be reprimanded, fired or whatever. I am just wondering a lot about these boys who are now men. I have been thinking about them a lot and wondering what they are like…are they normal, healthy men? Have they healed from the scars? Do you ever heal? I don’t know…one thing that I have not experienced is sexual abuse as a child. I am sure they will come out sooner or later and tell their stories; they seem to always do. I just want to know they are OK.
Stargazer
Wow, I was at the gym today where they have TVs (I don’t have one at home) and this story was all over the news. I’m glad to see it is getting the coverage it deserves. I was in tears watching. I hope this grown victims can overcome the shame and horror of what happened to them, and that this brings more awareness to child abuse. I was never actually raped but I suffered a lot of covert sex abuse growing up. It was disgusting. I can’t even imagine what these boys – now men – must be going through.
callmeathena
Skylar
You are right – most of us don’t expect to find “fantasy characters” in real life. My spath was a absolutely perfect fantasy dude. Then he left, drove to his house, and took it off. Fantasy over. I was always so completely baffled at the on/off nature. No “regular” man could compare with the man in the mask.
Who knew? Who flipping KNEW?
I saw a woman downtown today. She was beautiful. Slender, six feet tall, long gangly legs, blonde hair, high heels, dressed to the 9’s. She looked like she was just off the pages of glamour magazine. I stared. I thought – that’s why the models in the magazines looks so beautiful. Because they are. I felt frumpy by comparison.
Anyway, she looked like a cartoon. She was soooo over the top that she actually looked fake, like she didn’t belong.
Isn’t that an analogy to a spath?
skylar
Athena,
maybe she was a he.
Some of the cross dressing men can pull it off better than women can!!
I totally get what you mean. And that’s why I thought maybe it’s a man. So many people think that what is represented as an ideal woman, is not a real human being. You must never even imagine that woman having normal emotions or bodily functions. She is the facade and NOTHING BUT THE FACADE and THAT is considered beautiful in our shallow and narcissistic society: a facade with nothing human underneath.
When I look at the cross dressing men, I can see that they want to be a woman, but not a real woman. They want to have what is on the outside of a woman in order to believe that they are really a woman.