It wasn’t Sandusky that held the power. It was the multi-million dollar football machine.
Yes, but as Paterno’s assistant and heir apparent, he held a lot of power. He was head of the charity that was presumably helping the child with the mother’s approval — that is why the kid wouldn’t tell his mom. The mother was receiving help with her child, so she wouldn’t want to kill the golden goose, so she turned a blind eye. The grad assistent was hoping to continue with the program after his degree.Paterno? I have no excuse for him. The whole thing is sick, although I can see how it happened.
I repeat: Does anyone think that McQueary would have the job he has today if he’d made a big splash by calling the police by exposing this creep when he caught them in the gym 10 years ago?
And why, oh why, was Sandusky allowed to continue his access to the gym after he was forced out?
Money will have always have a greater hold over the minds of men than anything else.
There were 70 million + rea$on$ why no one said anything.
One of the moms recorded a phone call with Sandusky, where Sandusky admitted that naked bearhugs in the shower were wrong. Sandusky said he wished he was dead.
The system did no favors to anybody by overlooking this. This man is literally sick, and he knows it. There’s a pathology for pedophilia. It came from somewhere.
The whole psychological profession is making a mistake when they try to say that homosexuality is “normal”. There is a really high correlation between traumatic events in a child’s life and their eventual self-identification as homosexual. Who knows whether Sandusky had the same thing happen to him when he was a kid. But normalizing the behavior only means that the vicious circle continues with nobody stepping in to try to break that circle.
The same thing happened with Clinton. People who have been treated for sexual addictions were wishing that he would just admit his dysfunction and bring the whole issue of sexual addictions and dysfunction into the national conversation, so people could learn that there is a way out. Instead the nation giggled about oral sex and middle-schoolers came to think of it is a game. And again - it was the political “machine” that “protected” Clinton (actually ensuring he remained ensnared; what they really protected was their own power - just as the “multi-million dollar football machine” that you referenced in the Penn State case.)
Rush Limbaugh said the other day that there was an angle on the Penn State situation that nobody would dare bring up - himself included. I think that was probably the homosexual angle. This whole thing could lead to an honest discussion that could actually help the casualties of pedophilia - both victims and perpetrators, who may well be both.
Sandusky had the power to bring down the $$$ football money machine. They let him retire with honor in 1999 to protect the Penn State brand.