Survivors of sexual abuse appalled by Penn State unrest

CNN ^ | 11 Nov 2011 | Madison Park

[Hoodat]

How does a survivor of sexual abuse respond to students rioting at Penn State?

"You're not getting it. You just don't get it," said Dave Lorenz who was abused by a priest as a teen.

"It's just stupid youthfulness."

Earlier this week, legendary head football coach Joe Paterno was removed in the midst of a scandal involving sexual abuse allegations against a former defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky.

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Watching footage of Penn State students rioting in the streets Wednesday night, Lorenzo shuddered, then hung his head.

What bothered Lorenz is that students "rallied around (Paterno's) house, cheering him up."

"The kids up there just don't understand what this does," he said.

"Stop thinking of the adult and start thinking of what happens to a child that goes through this. You love the adult, you may not know the kid. Start thinking of the kid and the horror they go through, because it's hell."

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Kayla Garriott, a 22-year-old college student who was sexually abused as a child, said the open support for Paterno was disrespectful to survivors.

"That's the first thing people look at -- that their football team is without their head coach that's been there so many years. Nobody looks at the eight children."

The rioters are "never going to be in those children's shoes. It's not about football. It's about eight children who are never going to get back their lives back. They're going to live with this the rest of their lives. They might not get over that."

[Gene Eric]

>> But when it comes to the female-molests-boy article, it won’t be as bad.

The condemnation is sparse in comparison.

[Travis McGee]

Thanks.

[Travis McGee]

You really don’t see any difference in the outcome to the boys between a 25 year old female teacher seducing a 15 year old virgin high school boy, and a 55 year old male coach grooming and raping a ten year old boy?

They are the same to you? Equally damaging?

As a male, I can say that on this one, you are off your rocker. (And I would not presume to speak for women or girls, not being one.)

[MrEdd]

There is nothing accurate in any of your posts on the topic.

As i pointed out earlier, You Prokopton are making shit up that is countered by the empirical evidence. I have to assume that you are not really a lawyer, or that you only work as a clerk for someone else because nobody can make a living in the legal field with work as sloppy as yours.

I pointed out that you could just run the math on the naughty teacher threads.

You haven't done so yet you keep trying to push your made up crap. You never got far enough in school to learn elementary statistics, did you Prokopton? Still don't know the difference between the average and the mean? Think X bar and R charts have something to do with cattle ranches?

Or you have been caught in a lie and are hoping to bluster your way through.

Bluster ain't working, Prokopton.

[Prokopton]

Bluster ain't working, Prokopton.

Honesty is not your friend, MrEdd.

[little jeremiah]

Checking in - computer difficulties.

Rough road ahead, when so many don’t see what happens when traditional aka “real” morailty is thrown in the trash.

[MrEdd]

I have been dead on honest and accurate.
Prove all the rest of us wrong. Tabulate the poster positions on the last thirty or forty naughty teacher threads.

This is not a he said she said question.

The truth is carved out in the posts on those threads.

You have put yourself in a position where it has been pointed out that there is wealth of evidence contradicting your contentions and none supporting you.

You continue to stamp your feet, scream hysterically “no no no you're all lying” and then you hold your breath.

No amount of continued childishness on your part will make you seem credible.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I don't think Sandusky is doing any laughing now

Do you think he's enduring a slap-fest down at "county" or is he in solitary for his own protection?

[Prokopton]

I have been dead on honest and accurate. Prove all the rest of us wrong. Tabulate the poster positions on the last thirty or forty naughty teacher threads.

Your attempts to cloud the issue are pathetic. None of your postings change the fact that Marie, in a most disgusting way, libeled a huge number of FReepers.

Marie posted, concerning the rape of a ten year old boy at Penn State, and I quote:

"If the teacher had been a female, half of the FReeper men here would’ve been cheering the abuse on."

She accused tens of thousands of FReepers of being the type of men that would cheer on the rape of a ten year old boy if the rapist was a woman. This is an outrageous and libelous statement that she would not back down from nor apologize for. You have endorsed this statement and have made yourself no better than she. Maybe you want to inform Mr. Robinson that half of the men registered on his conservative news forum would cheer on the rape of a ten year old boy. Do you think he would endorse that?

You want me to "prove" something. I am not the one who made the libelous statement. It is up to the libeler to prove what they said is true. Go ahead, prove to me and all the rest of the male FReepers that half of us would cheer on the rape of a ten year old boy. If you can't, then you should come out and admit the statement was wrong and apologize for your endorsement of it.

Let's see what type of a man you are.

[SmithL]

I'd say that YOU are now guilty of liable.

I'd say you're liable to be guilty of catachresis.

[Marie]

The definition of an extremist is someone who can’t tell who their friends are.