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Penn State Scandal: Mother of Alleged Victim Says Son Was Afraid to Tell Sandusky 'No'
ABC News ^ | November 11, 2011 | KEVIN DOLAK

Posted on 11/11/2011 6:34:50 AM PST by Raebie

The mother of the boy who triggered the investigation into Jerry Sandusky's alleged child sex assaults says that during the years of abuse the boy suffered he felt he didn't have the power to say no to the former Penn State football coach.

Speaking exclusively with George Stephanopoulos on ABC News' "Good Morning America" the mother of the boy, who is referred to in court papers as Victim 1, describes how she learned of the abuse and how her son lived in fear of coming forward to implicate a football coaching legend.

"I had said, 'You know, maybe we should have come to this conclusion earlier -- you should have told me,'" the mother, whose name is being withheld, said she told her son. "He was like, 'Well, I didn't know what to do … you just can't tell Jerry no.'"

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: childabuse; pennstate; sandusky; sexualassault
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Plus Sandusky most likely threatened him that something bad would happen if he told. Hard to imagine he did not threaten.


101 posted on 11/11/2011 3:07:50 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
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To: little jeremiah

The real scandal may involve the police and local judicial system, that were in the pocket of the PSU Football program.

It just seems like more and more that Penn State was the “Jonestown” of college football.


102 posted on 11/11/2011 3:09:45 PM PST by dfwgator (I stand with Herman Cain.)
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To: dfwgator

The real question is who DIDN’T know???


103 posted on 11/11/2011 3:11:27 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
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To: silverleaf

My son at that age was very nice looking, small and blond. He was into music, theater, and wrestling. I was always there. It annoyed him but I WAS ALWAYS THERE.


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105 posted on 11/11/2011 7:43:23 PM PST by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: cherry

Wasn’t it interesting that they adopted children, because apparently they were unable to have their own? Hmm.


106 posted on 11/11/2011 8:07:23 PM PST by MarMema (chains we can believe in)
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To: LeonardFMason
I remember the sports media running a story a few years ago about ALL these coaches so happy at Penn State that they stayed for their entire careers as underlings to the Joe....

now, it makes all the sense in the world....

they all need to be gone...

107 posted on 11/11/2011 9:43:53 PM PST by cherry
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To: dfwgator

a lot of den leaders in Cub Scouts are women...


108 posted on 11/11/2011 9:45:04 PM PST by cherry
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To: butterdezillion

Go Nebraska!

One of my pet peeves: to call what happened before today’s game with Penn “a moment of silence” is just more worshiping the god of Political Correctness.

FDR’s radio broadcast to the nation regarding the 1945 D Day invasion was not a moment of silence, it was a prayer to Almighty God and he used those words!!!

That broadcast, quite recent in our history, stands as yet another clear benchmark by which to measure how far we have been pushed and fallen as a nation.


109 posted on 11/12/2011 2:10:07 PM PST by frog in a pot (Timely recognition of your enemies is an important element of survival.)
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To: frog in a pot

If Ron Brown led it I can guarantee it wasn’t a “moment of silence”. lol.

I was so glad for the comments Bo Pelini made after the game, saying over and over again that football is nothing compared to the lives and well-being of these kids. He said he didn’t think the game should even have been played but that since it was played he was really glad they had the prayer together. I’m not sure, but I think the Nebraska people asked to be able to have that. I know Pelini said both coaches signed off on having it so that was good.

He said his son is 12. I just about had to cry, thinking about that too, because my daughter will be 12 in another month. I work with kids that age every day; they totally look up to the adults who work with them. The kids Sandusky wanted to “help” are the same kind of kids I try to help every day, and the last thing they need is to have their trust violated like that. I pray for those boys and their families.


110 posted on 11/12/2011 4:21:27 PM PST by butterdezillion
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