Penn State...WTF?

[thewiseguy]

I have read a little on what has happened at Penn State and I am left speechless.

Sandusky, then defensive coordinator, was under investigation for child sex abuse in 1998 by the university. He retired the same year and was given an office, emeritus coach title, and access to football facilities!

In 2002 Mike McQueary who is now on Penn State's coaching staff saw Sandusky having sex with a kid in one of the Penn State facilities and reports this to Joe Paterno. The university ultimately decides to forbid Sandusky from bringing kids to the campus! But he was still still allowed to run a summer camp under his own name!

Sandusky continues to sexually abuse kids until 2009.

Just wow. Penn State as an institution enabled this guy to carry on these hideous crimes. Everybody likes to talk about Joe Paterno but this is much bigger than Joe. This is about Penn State.

[Fumesucker]

1. Sandusky has an autobiography out..

It's called "Touched; The Jerry Sandusky Story"..

Oh, and it's available in a leather bound edition.

You really can't make this stuff up.

http://www.amazon.com/Touched-Jerry-Sandusky-Story/dp/1582613575/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320789281&sr=8-1

[Mojambo]

2. O.M.M.F.G. n/t

[shuckfinn]

27. Unreal

Yo?

[Posteritatis]

5. Not enough palms on the entire planet to facepalm enough for that book title. (nt)

[Peregrine Took]

3. This McQueary guy should have dropped a dime ASAP even if he was afraid

to give his name.

[WinkyDink]

13. What McQ was AFRAID of was messing up The Program. (I'm PSU '71, BTW.)

[abelenkpe]

4. So disturbing

how can one protect their kids from this kind of stuff? That poor kid! Hope he's ok.

[Ruby the Liberal]

7. He was but one of eight (that they know of)

the investigation is continuing.

[Angry Dragon]

29. There are 2 phone numbers out there for people to call

the number is up to 20 now

[shuckfinn]

25. Incredible.

They turned a blind eye.

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. Joe Paterno IS Penn State

Been the head coach there since 1966.

The AD and President told him in 2004 that he would be retiring at the end of the season. He told them 'no' and kept on coaching. Nothing happens on that campus athletic department without his approval.

He was told in 2002 that ole Jer was caught raping a child in the shower and did nothing. This will be his legacy, not national titles, not w/l records and not graduation rates. He turned a blind eye.

[thewiseguy]

10. Paterno and the University knew of Sandusky's child sex abuse as early as 1998

This is why he abruptly retired back then. This was a systemic cover up from the very beginning.

[Ruby the Liberal]

17. I know. Don't even get me started on the Ray Gricar disappearance.

1998 was merely a warmup in the shower with no hanky panky.

After 2002, you have to know the cat was out of the proverbial bag and anyone who is anyone in that back road 'burg knew what was happening...

[Bill McBlueState]

16. Paterno didn't "do nothing"

He reported it to his supervisor, which was what he was legally obligated to do. There is universal agreement that that was not enough, but it's different from doing nothing.

[Ruby the Liberal]

19. And I am sure the history books will be kind.

Grad student tells him Jerry is butt-fucking a 10 year old in the team facility and JoePa reports it as "an incident" then later notes the grad student (now one of his assistant coaches) was "distraught".

Like I said - he did nothing, unless you want to count whitewashing eyewitness testimony to protect his buddy.

[shuckfinn]

26. Even Joe's

Got to go

[Altoid_Cyclist]

8. The local reaction is shock & disgust.

I haven't talked to anyone in the area who isn't just thunderstruck by all of this. Everyone here has always known that the football program was a HUGE cash cow, but we never would have thought that JoePa and the PSU hierarchy were capable of something this heinous.

This is 100% surreal! Like so many other infamous events in history, the cover-up is what eventually causes the most damage. All that they had to do was let the police (the real police) do their job way back when, and this would have saved the trauma inflicted on the young victims. How does the decision to protect their coaching staff via a string of felonies look to them now? All that it did was create more victims and even more disgrace to the entire university. I wonder if this is why they could never force Joe to leave? I really, really, really hope that he wasn't blackmailing them on top of everything else that (allegedly) occurred. What a freaking cesspool they have created.

[RainDog]

9. it's just like the pedophile priests

institutions pretend they are not corrupt, which is part of the corruption.

[butterfly77]

24. Exactly,what I was thinking...

and SPORTS trump everything in this country and the fake hero worship..just a damn game where everyone gets paid except the fans.

[shuckfinn]

28. real bad men

No kidding. Anywhere they can catch a boy, they'll have him.

[tishaLA]

18. Not according to these pics from outside Paterno's house tonight...

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150440745090663.413475.143212655662&type=3&saved

Seems he has lots of supporters, gawd help us.

[Altoid_Cyclist]

23. I saw that on the news tonight too.

The only thing that I can think of is that some of the fans are like the little kid from the 1919 "Blacksox Scandal".

They are so stunned that they are doing a present day version of "come on Joe...say it aint so".

JoePa is bigger than life in this area and it's just very difficult for some people to believe what they are seeing and hearing right now.

[zbdent]

11. "given an office," etc. ... who does he think he is?

A catholic priest?

[Ruby the Liberal]

20. He thought he was next in line for the head coaching job

The allegations in 1998 bought him a forced retirement instead. The office (and use of the facilities) was part of the deal.

[SoDesuKa]

12. On Campus

I was surprised that Sandusky would shower with children on the Penn State campus itself. It probably means that his wife wouldn't let him bring kids home anymore because she knew something was up. It's also possible that people at Second Mile were well aware of Sandusky's sexual interest in children.

Sandusky seems to have had a number of enablers, people who were just looking for an excuse to look the other way.

[fishwax]

14. not necessarily -- many of the incidents also took place at his house

Sandusky and his wife had six kids--all adopted--and apparently it wasn't unusual for them to have other kids from the Second Mile program staying over as well.

"Sandusky seems to have had a number of enablers, people who were just looking for an excuse to look the other way."

Indeed.

[Gin]

15. IMO he felt secure that is was a "safe" place for him...

maybe they will form a football team when they are all in the state pen together....instead of Penn state.

may he meet himself in jail in the showers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[spanone]

21. chris matthews likened this to 'his' catholic church sex scandals

[WillyT]

22. Apparently... Football IS A Religion...

And I like football...

But this is WAY beyond the pale...

:shrug: