Sandusky Sex Abuse Investigation Faults Paterno and Others at Penn State

[Mira]

Source: The New York Times

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The New York Times
Thursday, July 12, 2012 -- 9:11 AM EDT
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Sandusky Sex Abuse Investigation Faults Paterno and Others at Penn State

The most senior officials at Penn State University failed for more than a decade to take any steps to protect the children victimized by Jerry Sandusky, the longtime lieutenant to head football coach Joe Paterno, according to an independent investigation of the sex abuse scandal that rocked the university last fall.
“Our most saddening and sobering finding is the total disregard for the safety and welfare of Sandusky’s child victims,” said Louis J. Freeh, the former federal judge and director of the F.B.I. who oversaw the investigation. “The most powerful men at Penn State failed to take any steps for 14 years to protect the children who Sandusky victimized.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/sports/ncaafootball/13pennstate.html?emc=na

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/sports/ncaafootball/13pennstate.html?emc=na

[coldbeer]

1. One case of child molestation

is, by far, one too many. Paterno let us down.

[Ohio Joe]

10. Let us down? No, he fed children to a molester

Fuck him, he got off easy by dying.

[riderinthestorm]

2. Horrifying, despicable behavior by all. A huge effort to protect the football program and Sandusky

absolutely no regard for the children.

Shut the place down. Their priorities are fucked. up.

[Punkingal]

7. I agree.

They should stop playing football at Penn State.

[maddezmom]

3. absolutely sickening n/t

[Junkdrawer]

4. Why? Because a Winning Football team trumped ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS AT PSU....

Which was, ironically, the very thing Joe Pa was supposed to have kept in prospective. That WAS to be his legacy.

Shut football DOWN at PSU for at least 5-10 years.

[MicaelS]

13. Shut down Penn State football for at least 20 years.....

Minimum. And make PSU pay every bit of the judgements / settlements against them out of their General Fund. Not one penny should come from their insurance company.

[24601]

19. Yes - make sure you punish all those who had nothing to do with the scandal -

especially today's players who were in elementary school at the time.

Better yet - close down all universities in the whole state - mass punishment of the innocent always sends a strong message to the guilty that aren't there anymore.

[MicaelS]

20. Cry me a fucking river....

Maybe if Penn State, and it's Admins, Alumni and those in Pennsylvania weren't so focused on having a winning football team, no matter the costs, this would have never happened. You act like the ball players are the victims, that is unmitigated bullshit. It's those children who were raped, repeatedly and the fuckers who were running Penn State, including Paterno, were responsible for not putting an end it to when it was first reported.

Universities exist to provide an education to their students, not to act as the minor league for the NFL and NBA.

This country has it's priorities totally reversed when it comes Education vs. Football and Basketball.

[Posteritatis]

22. Sure, why not? Maybe that way schools will think twice before defending rapists for years. (nt)

[riderinthestorm]

25. The rioting Penn State students after Joe Paterno's firing indicate otherwise

There's a rotten core of sports-worship at Penn State that needs a thorough cleansing.

The current football players are as valuable to other teams as they ever were - they'll find places elsewhere. Penn State is a pro-football grooming ground, those guys will be snapped up by other universities.

The students and faculty need a cooling off period where their priorities are forcibly re-focused. 20 years without a football program should thoroughly disinfect the place of blind football adoration and hero worship.

[Iggy]

5. What Lenin Said...

"Religion is the opium of the masses".

Cross out religion and enter SPORTS.

[Posteritatis]

16. Sports *is* religion to a lot of people at this point. (nt)

[TheWraith]

18. You have that quote out of context, twice over.

One, it was Marx, not Lenin. Second, he wasn't bashing it, he was saying that religion was what people turned to to get through the pain and suffering of their lives.

[Iggy]

23. Thanks for the catch

I didn't say Lenin was bashing religion.. there's no need to "bash". doofuses in our nation are
doing quite enough to discredit religion, the catholic church for starters.

"Lord, protect me from thy followers" is my daily prayer

[AngryAmish]

6. UndeadPaterno says on twitter

"I did not cover up for Jerry Sandusky. I just prevented people from investigating him."

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

12. UndeadPaterno

....would likely say "Who......what day is it.....is it 1987?"

[Blue_Tires]

8. We need a wholesale re-evaluation on the importance of big-time sports on campus

because the elephant in the room no one dares acknowledge is that this scandal could have played out at any number of football/basketball factories...

[AngryAmish]

11. The changes that are coming to all of campus life will not be pretty

Big time sports programs exist to give jobs to the people who run the programs. Schools need the revenue sports (men's football and basketball) to pay everybody's salaries - asst women's swimming, the secretaries, the guy who cleans the uniforms. They are all incentivized to protect the program at all costs.

In the near future we will not recognize the four year undergraduate school. Computer aided learning will eliminate many of the professors. People will realize that grad school is an enrichment scheme and the students are not let into the joke.

Higher education for many is a scam. People are waking up to that fact now.

[Blue_Tires]

17. Actually, big time sports only exist because

The NFL and NBA use universities as their de facto minor leagues for grooming talent...

Plenty of small schools in Div. II and Div. III have shown that you can have healthy sports programs where the students go to class and graduate, AND the importance of the "program" is kept in proper, realistic check...

[Posteritatis]

14. And probably has, minus things actually coming to light. (nt)

[dipsydoodle]

9. Penn State blamed over Jerry Sandusky sex abuse

The leaders of US university Penn State showed a "total disregard" for the safety of victims of sex abuser Jerry Sandusky, a report says.

Former FBI chief Louis Freeh said: "The most powerful men at Penn State failed to take any steps... to protect the children who Sandusky victimised."

Mr Freeh cited the former university and legendary football coach Joe Paterno, who died last year.

Both were sacked during the probe into assistant coach Sandusky's abuses.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18817095

[valerief]

15. Paterno was Penn State's Caligula. nt

[Whisp]

21. kicking Paterno's dead pedo enabling ass.

and recommending he go to Hell.