Posted on 11/14/2011 8:10:35 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
On Sunday, the board of directors of the Second Mile program accepted the resignation of President and CEO Dr. Jack Raykovitz.
Raykovitz has worked for program for the past 28 years, but both he and the board believe the resignation is best for both parties.
Former Penn State University assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno's onetime heir apparent, was charged with sexually assaulting eight boys over a 15-year period.
Sandusky founded The Second Mile charity in 1977, working with at-risk youths. It now raises and spends several million dollars each year for its programs.
“Although the allegations against Jerry Sandusky and the alleged incidents occurred outside Second Mile programs and events, this does not change the fact that the alleged sexual abuse involved Second Mile program children, nor does it lessen the terrible impact of sexual abuse on its victims,” the board said in a statement.
David Woodle, the current vice chairman of the board, will now be responsible for day-to-day operations of the program.
(Excerpt) Read more at wpxi.com ...
It will be interesting to see if any more victims surface and if they are from the 2nd mile program.
How did all of this get started and come to light? I get that McQuery walked in on Sandusky raping a 10 year old years ago but what has brought this out now?
creepy photo here
http://web.archive.org/web/20050301155421/http://www.thesecondmile.org/ourTeam/bios/RaykovitzJ.php
Grand Jury completing a three year review. There were more victims in 2008 that caused the grand jury to open a case.
Sandusky displays homosexuality in all its glory. Homosexuality is just partner-assisted masturbation. Did he love those boys or was he just using them to help himself ejaculate? Was he trying to produce children with those boys or was he just using them to help himself ejaculate? Homosexuals.....the most self-centered, self-serving, self-aggrandizing group ever.
That’s what we have been trying to find out as well. What brought it to the surface AGAIN????
I think it was the 2009 allegations from the nearby high school where he was an assistant.
Throughout the 2000’s there was another victims who was regularly abused by Sandusky.
Once he got into his teen years, he became more resistant to Jerry’s advances and did his best to avoid him.
One day his mother caught him doing an internet search for “sex weirdos” - the kid was wondering if Jerry was listed anywhere. The mother, of course, wanted to know why he was looking for Jerry on a sex weirdo database.
She became very concerned but couldn’t pry the story out of him.
She called the school and asked if they could try talking to her son.
They did - and the boy opened up.
The school officials immediately called police.
this is detailed in the grand jury presentment, and the mother also granted an interview to George Stephanopolous for gma (abc)
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/133808198.html
Second Mile chief resigns; charity hires Lynne Abraham
The Second Mile is just as complicit in this scandal as Penn St. They need to do an internal investigation just as much as PSU.
No way was Sandusky the only person who knew ‘Second Mile’ was a farming operation for predatory homosexual pedophiles. I pray there are some very angry, righteous, and relentless federal agents involved in this case.
“internal investigation” ??
That would likely end the same way Penn State’s “internal investigation” of climate fraudster Michael Mann did - - “nothing to see here”.
You mean like the fox investigating what happened to the hens?
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Timeline of Events:
Jerry Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant football coach, started The Second Mile organization for at-risk children in State College in 1977, when he was defensive coordinator on Joe Paterno’s staff. He was charged Friday with 40 counts related to the sexual abuse of eight boys in the program between 1994 and 2005. Here is a timeline of events outlined in a 23-page grand jury report.
1994 or 1995: A boy identified only as Victim 6 meets Mr. Sandusky at a picnic sponsored by The Second Mile when he was 7 or 8.
1994: Meets Victim 7, who is 10. Over the next couple of years, there is shared showering and cuddling when the boy stayed at Mr. Sandusky’s home.
1995 or 1996: Victim 5, age 7 or 8, meets Mr. Sandusky through The Second Mile. He says that later, sometime between 1996 and 1998, Mr. Sandusky pins him against a shower wall and places the boy’s hand on his penis.
1996 or 1997: Victim 4, age 12 or 13, has indecent contacts with Mr. Sandusky. This victim became a fixture in the Sandusky household and attended many football events over the years. Either before or after alleged sexual assaults, the victim receives expensive gifts from Mr. Sandusky.
1998: Victim 6, age 11, is taken to a locker room in the Penn State football facility, and Mr. Sandusky showers with him, giving him a bear hug. When he was dropped off at home, the boy’s mother learns about the shower and contacts university police. A detective listens in on two phone conversations with the mother and Mr. Sandusky on May 13, 1998, and May 19, 1998. Mr. Sandusky admits to the joint showering.
June 1, 1998: State Department of Public Welfare investigator and the university police detective interview Mr. Sandusky. He said he would not shower with children again.
May 1999: PSU football coach Joe Paterno tells Mr. Sandusky he will not be the next head coach at PSU. This precedes Mr. Sandusky’s retirement.
Summer 2000: Victim 3, between 7th and 8th grade at the time, meets Mr. Sandusky. He claims his genitals are touched and there are bear hugs in the shower.
Fall 2000: A janitor sees Mr. Sandusky in the shower at the PSU football complex with Victim 8. The boy was pinned against the wall while Mr. Sandusky performed a sex act on him. The janitor tells other janitorial staff and his boss. His supervisor tells him how to make an official report. Such a report is never made; there is discussion among janitorial staff of concern about their jobs if they report the incident.
March 1, 2002: A Penn State football graduate assistant, whose name is not in the presentment but who since has been identified as Mike McQueary, now the team’s wide receiver coach and recruiting coordinator, witnesses Mr. Sandusky having sex with Victim 2 in the shower at the Lasch Football Building.
March 2, 2002: Mr. McQueary reports what he saw to Mr. Paterno.
March 3, 2002: Mr. Paterno contacts the PSU athletic director, Tim Curley, his immediate supervisor.
Mid-March 2002: Mr. McQueary meets with Mr. Curley and Gary Schultz, senior vice president for finance and business.
Late March or early April 2002: Mr. McQueary hears back from Mr. Curley that Mr. Sandusky’s keys to the locker room were taken away and the incident had been reported to The Second Mile. Mr. Curley and Mr. Schultz said PSU president Graham Spanier was told that an incident had occurred in the shower but was not given the full details initially reported by Mr. McQueary.
2005 or 2006: Victim 1 meets Mr. Sandusky. In 2007, they start spending time together during the track season at the boy’s high school, with the boy staying overnight at Mr. Sandusky’s residence in State College, during which sexual activity occurred. Mr. Sandusky gave the boy expensive gifts.
2006 or 2007: A wrestling coach at a Clinton County elementary school enters a weight room at school and finds Victim 1 and Mr. Sandusky lying on their sides in physical contact.
Throughout 2007 and 2008: Mr. Sandusky performed a sex act more than 20 times on Victim 1.
Spring 2008: Victim 1 terminates contact with Mr. Sandusky while a freshman at Central Mountain High School in Clinton County.
Later in 2008: Victim 1’s mother contacted the school, which barred Mr. Sandusky from the school and reported the incident to police.
Between January 2008 and July 2009: There were 57 calls from Mr. Sandusky’s cell phone to Victim 1’s home phone.
September 2010: Mr. Sandusky retires from The Second Mile.
December 2010: Mr. McQueary testifies before grand jury.
Jan. 12, 2011: Mr. Curley and Mr. Schultz testify before grand jury.
Nov. 4, 2011: Charges filed against Mr. Sandusky related to sexual abuse of eight boys, and against Mr. Curley and Mr. Shultz for lying to the grand jury and failing to report the incidents to the proper authorities.
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11311/1188149-143.stm#ixzz1dhULJSre
Thank you for that recap Scotswife. The depravity is just sickening.
How in Heaven’s name could this be going on for so long without somebody stopping it?!?! This is appalling!
I thank God my son is grown. I have a grandson and he is being home-schooled. But have friends that have little grandsons and their parents are infatuated with sports and coaches and what not. It is no longer safe to allow children to have personal contact with coaches. No way!
What has become of us? Coaches from my school are literally rolling in their graves. We looked at them as heroes and many were! Fine men with families that were geniunely concerned over all their students/kids welfare and future.
Can God's judgement be too far away?
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