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.
Paterno has been around at PSU so long that many father-son tandems have played for him. I myself was going to school up there in the late '70s and now the sons are there. I confess I don't know if that's the case with McCreary, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Why isn’t anyone interviewing his wife or at least attempting to do it?
Really? She didn’t know about the sleep-overs, etc? Please, what a crock.
“whoever saw this perv molesting the boy and didn’t do anything to stop it should be hung next to him.”
I had an interaction with McQueary at a football clinic some years back...2005 I think.
I was an assistant football coach at a high profile, large and perennial state contender in the largest, 4A, division in Maryland.
PSU had just landed our big recruit who was number one in the nation ranked by Rivals. I ended up talking to McQueary because he recognized my hat and team logo and we talked about the defense of certain passing attacks and the big recruit, who was a WR...and he the WR coach.
We talked for about 3 minutes or so, then he referred to me as our Heard Coach. I clarified I was not the head coach and he cut the conversation off abruptly, rudely, and quickly.
My guess is that when he called his daddy instead of stopping the incident, he was thinking about his football coaching career.
I’d like to punch him right in his teeth right now...it pains me to know scum like this have great coaching jobs.
Read the grand jury report. Read the reports on the 1998 molestation. Read the public statements by the mothers this week. Then, after you toss your lunch, come back and try to compare this to the Duke event. Thanks.
“The corruption in Pennsylvania must go very high up ...”
People we know that knew that Sandusky raped little boys.
President Spanier
AD Curley
VP Schultz
PSU Attorney Wendell Courtney
Second Mile Attorney Wendell Courtney
University Police (Detective Ronald Shreffler)
State College Police (Detective Ralph Ralston)
Department of Welfare (Investigator Jerry Lauro)
Child Services
County DA Gricar
County Prosecutors
Coach McQueary
Various elementary and high school officials
Second Mile officials
Joe Paterno’s staff including down to the janitors
Oh, good grief. ESPN just interviewed some Penn students and they said Paterno is being unfairly smeared and that he did nothing wrong. The leaders of tomorrow, folks.
I bet the upcoming Penn/Ped game will be the most watched college football game in history.
Are you saying he didn't get the WR coaching job on merit but possibly staying quiet might have influenced Joe to hire him?
Respectfully, no.
Sometime in 1998, the University Police investigated incidents (plural - more than one) involving Sandusky and boys in the Penn State football showers. This was apparently known within a broad power circle at Penn State. I don't want to read the GJ presentment or the GJ findings again (I don't have the stomach) for it, but I don't believe the University Police report was shared with outside law enforcement.
The DA received a report of molestation from one mother in 1998, but the DA determined that he did not have enough evidence to prosecute.
In 1999, Sandusky announces his surprise 'early retirement.' Instead of being dismissed from Penn State football, he is given emeritus status, including an office in the athletic building, a parking space, internet account, keys and access to the athletic facilities (including the football locker room and showers), and tuition discounts for his adopted sons. He'd known Joe Paterno since he played for him in 1965 and 1966, and had been a coach under Paterno for 30 years, and retired as defensive coordinator. More importantly, Sandusky is given access to football-related inside events, such as the ability to bring boys to sidelines, pre-game banquets, and athletic facilities - after he's been investigated for showering with boys in the football showers.
In 2002, a janitor observes him orally sodomizing a boy in the football showers, but doesn't report it to the police. The other janitors find out about it. You may speculate whether Paterno is kept in the dark about the actions of his good friend in the football showers.
Finally, we have the 2002 event. What we are never told in the GJ presentment or findings is what McQueary says he told Joe Paterno. Joe Paterno says he was told "fondling" or something that may have been sexual.
McQueary should have stopped the rape in progress, but he told everyone else involved that it was anal rape. The question is: what did he tell Paterno?
And Paterno did not tell the head of the University Police.
Schultz was the Senior Vice President of Business and Finance. The head of the University Police reported to Schultz on the org chart. (Saying Schultz was head of the University Police is like saying Obama is head of the FBI, because the FBI reports to him). But Schulz never told the University Police, child welfare, or any law enforcement. Nobody at Penn State did. Not McQueary, Paterno, Curley, nor Schultz. Nobody even tried to find out the identify of the preteen boy who was anally raped.
Paterno's defense is he did the bare legal minimum that was required of him, and then never followed up. Yet Paterno wasn't a man of legalism; Paterno was a moral authority.
Frank Noonan, the Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner says that Paterno had a moral obligation to report the incident.
The most bothersome thing is that Paterno spent his career guiding young boys and men. They were 17-18 when he scouted them, and about 19 when they came to his care on campus.
In announcing his retirement, Paterno said "I have come to work every day for the last 61 years with one clear goal in mind: To serve the best interests of this university and the young men who have been entrusted to my care. I have the same goal today."
Well, he didn't look after the best interests of pre-teen boys not officially in his care, but in his showers. Since 1998.
You believe incorrectly. You should look up the facts and stop reposting what you saw other Paterno-bots post. Curley was charged with NOT reporting it to the police. Curley reported it to Schultz ... ERGO, Schultz is NOT the police.
Think!
Check out this article and especially the date on it.
Madden: Sandusky a State secret
Mark Madden | Posted: Sunday, April 3, 2011 11:55 pm
I just looked at the board of directors for this monster’s charity, Second Mile. JoePa is still a member of the board.
I prefer "Joebots".
;)
From reading the story it sounds like the whole NCAA knew about him in 1999!
To bad he's a horse's ass.
You're going to leave Joe Paterno off of that list? All of those people in the athletic department and on Joe's staff knew it, since 1998 (for some), or 2000 (for others), or 2002 (for others), and JoePa didn't know?
Was he really that incompetent? Or was Sandusky (whom Paterno knew since at least 1965, when he played for JoePas) such a friend of Joe's that nobody would dare tell him?
I suspect before its all over with, we all will be stunned (stuned) over who all knew about Sandusky’s predilections. I would not be surprised if the NCAA doesn’t get trodden underfoot.
In announcing his retirement, Paterno said “I have come to work every day for the last 61 years with one clear goal in mind: To serve the best interests of this university and the young men who have been entrusted to my care. I have the same goal today.”
Ya, JoePa you had everything locked down in your house except that little mouse hole where the mouse got in and gnawed away the support beams just ‘cuz you didn’t want to kill it.
You tesitified to the GJ three years ago and still allowed Sandusky to dole out the candy. I’m just curious what Sandusky knows about you?
“I just looked at the board of directors for this monster’s charity, Second Mile. JoePa is still a member of the board.”
While I don't disagree, you might be more convincing if you use the correct term Penn State.
Penn is the name for the University of Pennsylvania in Philly.
Cheers.
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