Posted on 11/10/2011 8:31:48 AM PST by Colofornian
Former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky has been charged with sexually abusing eight children, with something like a dozen more also claiming they were victimized. That's horrible. Powerful PSU figures appear to have attempted to cover up what they knew. That makes it even worse.
But if one rumor turns out to be true, this may become a story too awful to compare to any other.
There's been nothing reported by an investigative journalist or law enforcement official so far, but a handful of media members are talking about investigations into whether Sandusky may have shared some of his victims with other adult males.
From two days ago, here's Dan Bernstein of CBS Chicago:
@dan_bernstein FYI: names are being x-checked w/Sandusky's Second Mile, and there are other older adult men with "curious" relationships. Only the start.
Thursday morning, Mark Madden, a Pittsburgh radio host who wrote a story seven months ago envisioning Sandusky's downfall, went on WEEI's Dennis & Callahan Morning Show to discuss the scandal. At the 7:15 mark here, he's asked about the "next shoe to drop." Here are his remarks:
I can give you a rumor, and I can give you something I think might happen. I hear there's a rumor that there will be a more shocking development from the Second Mile foundation. And, hold on to your stomachs because this is gross, I'll use the only language that I can, that Jerry Sandusky and Second Mile were pimping out young boys to donors. This is being investigated by two prominent columnists as I speak.
Madden also speculates it'll be revealed that Sandusky was told to retire as part of a cover-up.
CBS Sports' Gregg Doyel tweeted the following later in the morning, appearing to cite a source besides Madden:
@greggdoyelcbs I'm told Penn's atty general has this sick Sandusky rumor on the radar. Warning, awful read http://t.co/Wy4uiuiD
We can hope none of this is true, but multiple outlets are saying it's being investigated. If it is, let's then hope investigators are able to find it never happened.
Re offing himself.
If the rumors are true, then there may be some “donor” who may “help” him achieve that goal.
High-profile homo-predators like this are often part of a ring. I sure hope law enforcement is working to smoke out these fiends—and that local law enforcement isn’t part of the problem here. The state needs to be party to this investigation.
Sandusky took the boys out of state and to other big cities. This is a clue that he might have been sharing them.
He took them to Eagles games and other high-profile sports events. They stayed in expensive hotel suites.
No wonder so many well-known sports columnists distanced themselves from Sandusky fast and furiously in their writings this week!
But with Eric Holder as AG of the US, do we seriously think the FBI or DOJ will pursue this?
From Wikipedia:
In April 2009 Bellefonte police revealed that before his disappearance, Gricar used his home computer to perform internet searches on topics such as “how to wreck a hard drive”, “how to fry a hard drive”, and “water damage to a notebook computer”.[14]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Gricar
BINGO!
There’s a thought.
I don’t believe it was suicide. The Powers That Be would like us to think that.
No suicide note; no indication to his closest friends and relatives?
No body in the Susquehanna River, where the laptop was found, after 5 years?
No one actually saw him in Lewisburg where his car was found? This on a gorgeous spring day when the town was full of tourists and antique hunters? He didn’t show up on cameras in town?
Yes, I find this to be one of the most interesting questions surrounding all the news. Successful assistant coaches, even at Sandusky age would have been picked up by someone.
So he was like michael Jackson? Where everyone just let him have his little boys and no one did a thing? Or, were people reporting the rumors to cops, but the cops did not have any evidence so couldn’t make a move?
Actually, the DA didn't disappear until April 15, 2005. It was a long time after he failed to press charges against Sandusky. It was two weeks after the DA had been involved in busting up a major drug ring . . . and the DA's car was down the place at the river where his brother had jumped in the river and committed suicide earlier. There were fresh flowers in a soda can there with the car.
There was a terrible story in NJ in the 1980s of a young woman accused of horrible crimes against children in a daycare center. Like raping children with a sword (although no wounds on the body of any of the kids). But we were told that “children do not lie” and this girl’s life was nearly destroyed. She was saved by intrepid journalist, Dorothy Rabinowitz.
They have offices in NYC and San Fran , but really didn’t want to click on their links .
Most surely. I just don't have direct evidence as is with the confirmed list.
Cal Ripken..? Oh, dear...I'd want my name removed from this crowd ASAP.. You too, Mr. Holtz.
I'll bet he did... :-)
I don’t like the entire U taking the hit for the actions of a handful. We see too much of this in corporate America and government. I further assert that punishing the U will most likely result in lighter sentences for the truly guilty.
Does your extended punishment allow us to call everybody at Penn State pedophiles? Well, you want to punish the entire U, right?
I don’t believe in punishment by collegiate association = = except for Nebraska fans. ;^)
Suppose within the college football coaching community, fairly small for say the 100 biggest teams, rumors
about Sandusky abounded. Perhaps, no one wanted any future
headaches and no one offered him a job. As you said-no hard
evidence-nothing to be charged with but enough rumors from different sources and poof-no one wanted to hire him.
That's EXACTLY what they are doing...ESPN doesn't like people who aren't 'politically correct'...just ask Rush Limbaugh.
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