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NCAA Should Make Legendary Coach Joe Paterno Step Down For Child(8) Molestation Cover-Up Scandal !

source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/if-jerry-sandusky-allegations-are-true-penn-state-and-j...

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A former defensive coordinator for the Penn State football team was arrested Saturday on charges of sexually abusing eight boys across a 15-year period. Jerry Sandusky, 67, who had worked with needy children through his Second Mile foundation, was arraigned and released on $100,000 bail after being charged with 40 counts related to sexual abuse of young boys.

Coach Joe Paterno, right, was not charged. When Paterno first learned of one report of abuse he immediately reported it to athletic director Tim Curley, center, prosecutors said.

Two top university officials — Gary Schultz, the senior vice president for finance and business, and Tim Curley, the athletic director — were also charged Saturday with perjury and failure to report to authorities what they knew of the allegations.

“This is a case about a sexual predator who used his position within the university and community to repeatedly prey on young boys,” the Pennsylvania attorney general, Linda Kelly, said in a statement.

Mr. Sandusky was an assistant defensive coach to the legendary Joe Paterno, the coach with the most career victories in major college football, who helped propel Penn State to the top tiers of the sport. Until now, the Big Ten university had one of the most sterling images in college sports, largely thanks to Mr. Paterno and his success in 46 seasons as head coach.

A grand jury said that when Mr. Paterno learned of one allegation of abuse in 2002, he immediately reported it to Mr. Curley. The grand jury did not implicate Mr. Paterno in any wrongdoing, though it was not clear if he ever followed up on his initial conversation with Mr. Curley or attempted to alert the authorities himself.

Mr. Sandusky’s lawyer said his client had disputed the allegations that prompted a three-year investigation.

“He has denied the allegations from the outset,” Joseph Amendola, Mr. Sandusky’s lawyer, said in a telephone interview Saturday. “We know the allegations were out there, but we didn’t know what the allegations were. Jerry has mentioned his innocence, and once we are able to go through this, we’ll have more specific responses.”

The grand jury found that Mr. Curley and Mr. Schultz provided false testimony in discussing their response to the 2002 incident. It further found that Mr. Curley committed perjury in repeatedly denying that he had been told that Mr. Sandusky had engaged in sexual misconduct with a child.

The university president, Graham B. Spanier, who the grand jury said had been made aware of the 2002 incident, stood behind the two officials in a statement Saturday.

“I have known and worked daily with Tim and Gary for more than 16 years,” Mr. Spanier said in a statement. “I have complete confidence in how they have handled the allegations about a former university employee.”

The grand jury’s report stated that the eight boys were singled out for sexual advances or sexual assaults by Mr. Sandusky between 1994 and 2009. All of the alleged victims first encountered him through activities related to Second Mile, a foundation for needy children which he founded in 1977. Mr. Sandusky retired from daily involvement with the Second Mile last fall.

“Through the Second Mile, Sandusky had access to hundreds of boys, many of whom were vulnerable due to their social situations,” the grand jury said in its report.

According to the grand jury, the assaults occurred in a variety of locations — Penn State football facilities, Mr. Sandusky’s home, a high school, a golf resort near the university’s State College campus — and none of the boys were thought to be older than 13 when they occurred. The grand jury report also detailed the boys’ access to the Penn State football team; Mr. Sandusky retained access to many athletic facilities even after his retirement in 1999 and had an office in the Lasch Football Building on campus.

According to the report, Mr. Sandusky brought one boy to San Antonio for the 1999 Alamo Bowl, but threatened to send him home when the boy resisted his sexual advances. Mr. Sandusky reportedly guaranteed that boy that he could walk on to Penn State’s football team, and the boy was shown in a photograph with him that appeared in the magazine Sports Illustrated. Another boy attended as many as 15 football games as Mr. Sandusky’s guest; Mr. Sandusky brought him into a shower on campus and made the boy touch his genitals, the grand jury said. Mr. Sandusky placed his hands down the pants of another boy who attended coaches’ meetings and spent the night at his house before home games, the grand jury said.
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44 comments // NCAA Should Make Legendary Coach Joe Paterno Step Down For Child(8) Molestation Cover-Up Scandal !

  • nikonwilly
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      nikonwilly  

    • castrate him and lock him up ....sports in this and other Countries is a corporate run shame.
      The idolizing of sports personalities is sickening and think how many parents encourage this bullshit...

    • 7 months ago
  • DEM46
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      DEM46  

    • I hope if ANYONE knew of this they end up in jail!

      Damn it! F...ing sports, "just cover it up" he's a good guy and we're winning!

      Put all involved in jail!

    • 7 months ago
  • keithponder
  • RevKen
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      RevKen  
    • DEM46:

      I agree with you in that every person that knew of this and did nothing needs to be punished, I do not agree that it has to do with sports.

      This has to do with people that believe that they have the right to cover things up because they do so much good that they have earned the right to cover things up. This attitude goes beyond sports. It is in the Boy Scouts, schools, churches, and every organization that has adults supervising young children. These people are in every part of our society.

      Sports did not corrupt these people. These people corrupted sports.

    • 7 months ago
  • HarukoHaruhara
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      HarukoHaruhara  
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    • The similarities between this and the Graham James scandal in Canada are just chilling. Graham James was a highly successful junior hockey coach who later went on to coach in the minor leagues. But then several of his former players came out and said he molested them, including Theoron Fleury, a Hall of Famer. He was charged with 350 counts of molestation, did a few years in prison and was last known to be living in Mexico.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_James_%28ice_hockey%29

    • 7 months ago
  • keithponder
  • Itsbatman_Durr
  • Hardytoo
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      Hardytoo  
    • HarukoHaruhara:

      He returned to Canada, and was charged again after Theron Fleury pressed charges again. The James case is remanded to early December. He roams free until then.
      Sick freak - how many lives has he ruined.

    • 7 months ago
  • King_Louis_XIV
  • King_Louis_XIV
  • Leen61
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      Leen61  

    • This is a no-brainer. This is no different than the culture of secrecy employed by the Catholic church to cover up the generations of sexual abuse perpetrated by their priests.

    • 7 months ago
  • TanzaniteDiamonds
  • koseina
  • Leen61
  • Leen61
  • Itsbatman_Durr
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      Itsbatman_Durr  

    • the investigation was going on for three years before going public, and all parties were aware of it.

      that said, lets give the guy the innocent until proven guilty benefit eh?

      and paterno as well.. i mean to me its absurd an investigation into these heinous charges would take 3 years.. years that if true this guy could have destroyed young lives.. but i withhold judgement til its proven.

    • 7 months ago
  • keithponder
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      keithponder  
    • Itsbatman_Durr:

      You obviously haven't read the grand jury transcripts. The evidence that the man is a pedophile is in. There are multiple EYE WITNESSES.The story now is about thr cover up and why Paterno never alerted any law enforcement officials.

      This man is a God like figure in the entire state of Pennsylvania and acroos the nation in the world of sports, but this time....GOD IS DEAD WRONG AND HE BETTER BE PUNISHED.

      Why the hush. This story is a lot worst than the Michael Vick story. These were children,...human beings that were violated by an ugly man and the system.

    • 7 months ago
  • Itsbatman_Durr
  • Incredulous
  • koseina
  • King_Louis_XIV
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      King_Louis_XIV [removed]  
    • koseina:

      In my country, he is guilty until he PROVES
      himself innocent! Zat is zee Law Napoleonic,
      or how you say, "Napoleonic Law." Zees is more
      effective in such cases, no? Zee number of his
      victims and counts of abuse is indeed staggering.
      Prove himself innocent, even Perry Mason cannot do!

    • 7 months ago
  • keithponder
  • King_Louis_XIV
  • King_Louis_XIV
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      King_Louis_XIV [removed]  

    • Mon dieu! This sounds like something straight out of the
      18th Century! 40 Counts of sexual abuse of "young boys"
      spanning a long time period. That is not even tantamount
      to what you call "pedophilia"; that is indeed the definition
      of that disorder that is intractable, untreatable, and
      unpardonable in my royal opinion. This is one time that I will
      say, "Enough already! Take him to the dungeon!"

    • 7 months ago
  • Incredulous
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      Incredulous  
    • King_Louis_XIV:

      au contraire....all too common in universities and organizations created to help young, disadvantaged children, but always, very carefully covered up, with collusion by university faculty and administration, organization officials, doctors, lawyers and of course judges.

      I know a man who was featured on the university website as an outstanding example of an alumni. As a student, he was active in Big Brothers and Sisters, and he used that organization to find his victims. A lot of people suspected he was molesting young boys at the lavish parties he threw, but nothing was ever done. He would take the young boys he met through the organization, and set them up with his wealthy friends...doctors, lawyers, university faculty, but nobody ever came after him. One of the doctors left the country a few years ago, but some of them are still here.

      The predator's company now has contracts with the local schools. I know more than one of his victims, they grew up in single parent homes and were poor. He is a predator, and many people know this, but because he is wealthy, he doesn't pay for his crimes, he pays his way through the legal system. One of his victims is now dead, shot by his own brother, who was also his victim. This predator has destroyed countless lives, but most of his victims will never come forward because of the humiliation and shame they feel, and also because they probably know the guy would walk. One man I know took him to court, and the psychiatrist who was supposed to testify never showed up. The media gave the story minimal coverage, and when my acquaintance reported the abuse as an adolescent, they put him, the victim, in a mental health facility and the predator denied all allegations and walked then too. Years later, when the victim finally took this predator to court, he was paid something like $1,000 and forced to sign an agreement stating he would never bring it up again. The predator moved to California for a while, and is now back, and doing business with the local schools.

      Maybe, because the predator in this case is so high profile, the case will turn out differently, but only if people demand it. No one even knew about my friend's case...it was quietly covered up, and ushered through the court system simply to shut my friend up, and make it go away for the predator and his many wealthy and influential friends.

    • 7 months ago
  • King_Louis_XIV
  • koseina
  • keithponder
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      keithponder  
    • koseina:

      you mean winning on Saturday (college not NFL), AND I AGREE WITH YOU 100%. Joe seems to have tried to just cleaning his fithly conscious by only telling the A.D. but not going to the authorities.

      LEAVE TODAY JOE. LEAVE ON SUNDAY.

    • 7 months ago
  • koseina
  • TanzaniteDiamonds
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      TanzaniteDiamonds  
    • koseina:

      I don't see you as "cynical" at all; I think this a very important point.
      Isn't this the main problem in these kinds of cases? The ones who don't speak up -- about a cover up and choose to remain silent --- are the ones *allowing* this to happen.
      Why wouldn't anyone who has any knowledge of this kind of behavior NOT speak up?

    • 7 months ago
  • keithponder
  • nanac
  • koseina
  • King_Louis_XIV
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      King_Louis_XIV [removed]  
    • koseina:

      When we stop to be shocked, Msr. or Madame koseina,
      we have reverted to the savage beast of our instinctual nature.

      We must profess shock, but not awe. We also must demand that
      the most rigorous prosecutorial standards are applied in this case,
      as in other similar instances, regardless of the professional status
      of the accused perpetrator. "Where there is smoke, there is a
      flame," that's what I always tell my jurists. "Find the flame and
      douse it immediately!"

    • 7 months ago
  • keithponder
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      keithponder  
    • King_Louis_XIV:

      SMU got the death penalty over 25 years ago when Ron Myer was coach, with Eric Dickerson and Craig James both rushing for over 1,000 yards and both going into the NFL draft in the 1st round. They beat the University of Pittsburgh (Dan Marino) in the Cotton Bowl that year and finished number 1 in the country. I was living in Dallas at the time, working as a sports agent. Joe Paterno personally led a self righteous crusade against SMU, calling Dickerson a bum saying that he didn't deserve the Heisman, even though he led the nation in rushing that year, gaining nearly 2,000 yards from scrimmage, while splitting time with James in the backfield. SMU was accused of illegal recruiting giving improper benefits to Dickerson by inticing him to enroll there instead going to Texas or Oklahoma. Paterno's voice alone cost Eric Dickerson the Heisman that year. He called Eric Dickerson a bum amd a liar. I remember it just like it was yesterday, while today he's pardon his best friend who just happens to be a serial pedophile.

      SMU later received the 'death penalty' from the NCAA. Their program was banned from giving out football scholarships for 5 years. No school, to this day, has ever been penalized the way the SMU Mustangs were.

      Well, the chickens have come home to roost. Joe's gotta go, and Penn State's prgram needs to receive the death penalty because this, by far, is the worse scandal in the history of college sports and Joe Paterno was highly active in the cover up.

    • 7 months ago
  • koseina
  • King_Louis_XIV
  • King_Louis_XIV
  • HarukoHaruhara
  • keithponder
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      keithponder  
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    • http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203716204577020001842475304.html
      Penn State assistant coach charged with abusing young boys.
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      Former defensive coordinator Gerald "Jerry" Sandusky, 67, of State College, where Penn State is located, faces an array of charges. They include seven counts of first-degree involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, all of which are punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a $25,000 fine, according to Pennsylvania State Attorney General Linda Kelly.

      "This is a case about a sexual predator who used his position within the university and community to repeatedly prey on young boys," Kelly said.

      Sandusky, who coached for 23 years and was once considered a likely successor to Paterno, was also charged with aggravated indecent assault, eight counts of corruption of minors, four counts of unlawful contact with a minor stemming from a selection of the children Sandusky targeted from 1994 to 2009.

      One of the victims, a boy who was roughly 11-years-old when he met Sandusky in 2005 or 2006, testified that Sandusky performed oral sex on him more than 20 times through early 2008, and forced the victim to perform oral sex on him, the full report from the grand jury said.

    • 7 months ago
  • KB723
  • keithponder
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      keithponder  
    • KB723:

      LOL...and I agree. Joe Pa never reported any of this to any law enforcement officials. These millionaire coaches and athletic directors look down their noses at the student athletes for taking money from boosters and agents but they've always looked out for eachother and hid their oen dirty laundry from the rest of the world. His best friend and assistant coach was a known pedophile. They allowed him to retired with honors and special priviledges from PSU over 10 years ago.

    • 7 months ago
  • KB723
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      KB723  
    • keithponder:

      Damn They are out of Control, but I must mention, that is just what our society has become.... =(

      No one cares anymore, Law and Justice have taken a back seat unless you are poor...

    • 7 months ago
  • King_Louis_XIV
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