Posted on 11/09/2011 3:05:27 PM PST by Second Amendment First
The attorney representing former Penn State coach and The Second Mile founder, Jerry Sandusky, said his client learned of Coach Joe Paterno’s announcement he will retire, and is “distraught” over the latest developments at Penn State.
While Sandusky maintains he is innocent, “he is saddened by what is happening to the reputation of Penn State,” Amendola said. “He feels absolutely awful. They’re taking down an entire athletic department."
Amendola said he spoke Wednesday morning with Sandusky, who is still at his State College residence, which is staked out by media. Amendola said he's already at work on Sandusky’s defense, and is still in the early stages of assembling a team. He declined to comment further on the case.
“Jerry and I are both saddened by the rush to judgement,” he said. “Much more is going to come out in our defense.” Amendola noted that some recent news reports have indicated that Sandusky confessed wrongdoing in regards to an alleged 1998 incident with a boy in a shower. “Jerry never said that, but he did apologize for being in the shower — not for sexual activity,” Amendola said.
He may be crazy and in complete denial. I’m heartsick over this story and so disgusted that anyone would cover up this pile of crap or try to defend anyone directly involved in this horror. Did these same people give the Catholic Church a pass?!
I feel sorry for the young students at Penn State who are shellshocked over this.
You mean if you knew at the time the pig was going to get caught you would have acted like a responsible adult? Paterno you are as much a pig as your undercoach. How can you live with yourself.
That’s what I’m talking about!
I must admit to posting in error. I lived there and watched when the televised suicide happened and I do know that his name is (was) R. Budd Dwyer not R. Bud Dryer. Apologies to all for the misspelling (most of all to HG, an acute observer of such transgressions).
“Do the only honorable thing you’re capable of”
Dittos. I don’t know if he’s “capable” and he’s certainly not ‘honorable’ but that’s what he needs to do.
Nailed it...nailed it...nailed it.
I heard today that Sandusky was being charged, along with two of the college officials who failed to report the incident(s) to the police, and were involved in the cover-up. From what Rush said yesterday, one of the abused boys had told his father immediately after the attack, and this father had gone to Paterno, and told him what had happened. Rush also said there had been a witness to this same attack. My concern is: Why did the father go to Paterno and not the cops after his son reported the abuse to him? From what I understand, he didn't, or we would have heard about this back when it happened. Also, if there was a witness to the incident, who was it, and why didn't this person go to the cops at that time? Was the father concerned about publicity over the abuse, and thus thought to use Paterno as a go-between, in an effort to have it handled privately, and kept underwraps? If so, then he is as guilty as those college officers who didn't report it to the police, and covered it up. The other person who should be charged with not contacting the police is the so-called witness who saw the abuse. It seems like Paterno is being singled out in all of this. Have we even been given the names of the two college officials who will be charged?
According to Rush, Paterno reported it to his superiors. Some people were calling in and saying that Paterno should have called the police and reported the matter. I'm wondering if he didn't contact them because the father of the child asked him not to. It's just a suggestion, and I could be wrong. I just don't understand why a father, whose son has just told him that he was sexually abused by Jerry Sandusky, didn't punch Sandusky's lights out, or at least call the cops himself. Nobody in the press seems to be asking these questions.
And just underneath that is the rung reserved for those mercenary moral cowards who witness evil before their eyes and do NOTHING to stop it.
I'll call that the Paterno rung.
That guy abandoned his manhood that night and is, as far as I am concerned, morally culpable in any depredations committed by Sandusky afterwards.
GA Mike McQueary catches Sandusky in a locker room shower at 9:30 at nite raping a 10 year old boy. He then leaves (without confronting the man) and calls his own father. His father has him come over to his house (he lives in SC). The next day father and son (the witness) go to see Paterno. Joepa then reports it to the AD. Etc, etc...
Not exactly right. An assistant coach witnessed the attack and notified HIS father. The father told him to tell Paterno. The assistant coach did so, and Paterno then referred it to the administration and campus police.
The thing nobody mentions is that if he were concerned about his position on the team (not much of an excuse), he could have called the police or protective services anonymously. He didn't even have to get involved personally.
Thank you- the football obsession also contributed to the AVAILABILITY of these children. Any parent was probably ‘honored’ and ‘excited’ to have their child be ‘friends’ with a football ‘legend’!
I say again- if this had been a long respected educator, would it have been ignored.Would it even be in the news still?
If this activity has been going on as long as it seems, and has been covered up/overlooked this long I have to assume it isn’t shocking or odd in university football programs. This isn’t the only perpetrator. Is there an ‘understanding’, or a ‘code of silence’ here?
It sounds much like the priests of the Catholic church protecting each other. ( I’m Catholic-and I’m for a thorough purge of the Catholic priesthood!)
In the Catholic church homosexual pedophilia is the ultimate hypocrisy.
In football programs it sounds like its ‘business as usual’.
And why would a 28-year-old man need to run to his father to decide what to do? What am I missing here? Why did he not immediately call police (I am sure he could have done so anonymously) or step in and stop the assault?
Even hardened criminals detest child molesters.....
Almost.;-)
Paterno told the AD (Curley) who then told Senior Vice President for Finance and Business Gary Schultz, who oversees the campus police but is not an officer and has nothing to do with them. The two then interviewed McQueary over a month later. Nothing, as far as anyone knows, is done.
I honestly don't think Joepa's out of the woods yet.
Mass:
The entire case against Penn State turns on one episode which began on March 1, 2002. Grad assistant Mike McQueary saw a naked Jerry Sandusky sexually assaulting a naked boy in the shower at night in a deserted locker room. Rather than call the police, he called his father. The next day, McQueary and his father reported this to Joe Paterno. The following day, Sunday, Paterno reported this to Tim Curley, AD, and the administrator who I believe was the head of the University Police, Schulz.
McQueary’s statement to the grand jury, according to the presentment, was he witnessed anal intercourse between Sandusky and the boy. Paterno, Curley, and Schulz all maintain they were not told of any specific sexual activity. Only that the grad assistant witnessed something inappropriate. The stories do not match up. Curley and Schulz were charged with perjury, as apparently the government 100% believes McQueary, and not Curley and Schulz. I’m not sure why Paterno was not charged with perjury.... but then all the Grand Jury testimony is secret, so you don’t know how Paterno testified.
The father in question is Mike McQueary’s father. McQueary is the witness. No one knows who the boy was... he is unidentified.
Thanks for the clarification!
How many kids have been raped since 2002? How many would have been raped if Paterno had done the right thing after his superiors made it clear that they were NOT going to.
Sandusky, JoePa, Penn state pres, and anyone else that was involved in not pursuing the arrest and jailing of this monster should be prosecuted to the fullest.
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