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Boy in 2002 incident denies abuse: Sandusky lawyer
Reuters ^ | Nov.14, 2011 | Edith Honan, Ernest Scheyder, James Kelleher and Kristina Cooke

Posted on 11/14/2011 8:43:02 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

STATE COLLEGE, Pa (Reuters) - The lawyer for the Penn State football coach charged with child sex abuse said in an interview on Monday the boy at the center of a 2002 incident detailed in the grand jury's report had been identified and said it never happened.

Jerry Sandusky, the former defensive coordinator for the Penn State Nittany Lions, was arrested more than a week ago on charges he sexually abused eight young boys over a 15-year period.

Speaking to sportscaster Bob Costas, Joe Amendola, who represents Sandusky, said "we anticipate we're going to have at least several of those kids come forward and say, 'This never happened.'"

Sandusky, in a telephone interview with Costas that aired at the same time, acknowledged he had horsed around and showered with children involved in the Second Mile charity he founded.

But he denied he was a pedophile.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: conspiracy; denial; pedophiles; pedstate; pennstate; psu; sandusky; teflondon
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To: Scotswife
I don't know what planet these people live in.

If it was found out one time that a camp counselor or youth coach was showering and performing naked horse play with a child that person would be terminated and the police and child services would be called in. A notice would go out to all the parents whose children were in the program whether charges were filed or not.

321 posted on 11/15/2011 6:17:56 AM PST by outpostinmass2
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To: outpostinmass2
If he is doing these things on a regular basis then he is doing worse things with children.

I guess, as all cookie thieves are also bank robbers....

Cheese, we know Sandusky possibly has a dirty mind, and certainly an odd one. Nobody lauds that. The question is, exactly what did Sandusky permit this mind to move him to do. Few in the jabbering-Javert circuit seem to be wondering about how to accurately nail that fact down.

322 posted on 11/15/2011 6:20:21 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (bloodwashed not whitewashed)
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To: outpostinmass2

If it was someone like Scouts, every lefty lawyer for miles around would be hanging around their phone.

It seems highly politics driven who gets the ultra scrutiny and who gets the “boys will be boys.”


323 posted on 11/15/2011 6:23:08 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (bloodwashed not whitewashed)
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To: Owl_Eagle; brityank; Physicist; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; GOPJ; abner; baseballmom; Mo1; Ciexyz; ...
If I was the boy, I think I'd have a hard time admitting to it.

The kid might still be a teenager.

324 posted on 11/15/2011 6:26:28 AM PST by Tribune7 (If you demand perfection you will wind up with leftist Democrats)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
This isn't a court of law. This is a forum where people discuss news and topics. We understand that there is a legal process.

Saying that, people who are employed as youth counselors, especially ones who work with troubled youths all attend training. They are aware of the law and know what is and isn't appropriate and what is and isn't against the law. As youth baseball coach I was required to attend training and had background checks. Sandusky is required to attend these training classes under law. He knows that he shouldn't be naked with children in a shower. In fact he shouldn't be clothed in a shower with children. Any counselor who worked at the Second Mile that was observed doing what Sandusky did would be terminated and the police would have notified.

Sandusky will receive jail time just for those acts. There is also GJ testimony from victims that he had intercourse with the victim.

Sandusky has admitted to one crime. You would have to be a Casey Anthony juror (someone with low intelligence or low reasoning skills) to not believe the victims that testified before the GJ.

325 posted on 11/15/2011 6:41:14 AM PST by outpostinmass2
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To: HiTech RedNeck
And I asked you if showering with young boys was a perversion or not?

If it is, then they were harmed by being exposed to a pervert.

If you think a grown man showering and 'horsing around' with them isn't, then according to your definition of 'being harmed' they weren't.

So, again, is he a pervert or not?

326 posted on 11/15/2011 6:44:10 AM PST by fortheDeclaration (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Burke)
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To: Williams
We aren't talking about 'normal' we are talking about perversion.

This isn't a 'quirk'.

327 posted on 11/15/2011 6:45:26 AM PST by fortheDeclaration (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Burke)
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To: Tribune7

Poor Kid.


328 posted on 11/15/2011 6:45:38 AM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today:))
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To: fortheDeclaration

How does this harm work to the ill of the boy? Yes I am being devil’s advocate, for a reason. You’re shooting from the hip and I’m exposing it. I think you will fall back to an argument of overall risk of bad morality, if not injury. But I say, show where this actually occurred to the boy, even one boy.


329 posted on 11/15/2011 6:49:37 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (bloodwashed not whitewashed)
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To: outpostinmass2
This isn't a court of law

Understatement of the eternity

330 posted on 11/15/2011 6:50:26 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (bloodwashed not whitewashed)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
So, you think a young boy being exposed on a constant basis to a pervert doesn't harm him?

So, again, his he a pervert or not?

331 posted on 11/15/2011 6:55:02 AM PST by fortheDeclaration (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Burke)
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To: outpostinmass2

The grand jury’s job is to find things that can be brought before a court, to determine if in the most adverse view to the defendant there would be evidence sufficient to show him guilty. If the alleged intercourse can be brought before the court, let it be. But it sounds like the bearers of the allegations are unexpectedly now squirreling up a tree. This is why there are courts and why matters don’t end with a grand jury (unless it’s a no-bill).


332 posted on 11/15/2011 6:55:12 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (bloodwashed not whitewashed)
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To: fortheDeclaration

If the pervert shows him how to be perverted it would be, but that would require more than showers. FAR more.


333 posted on 11/15/2011 6:55:50 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (bloodwashed not whitewashed)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
So, destroying one's moral compass isn't harming the boy?

In fact, that would be the greatest harm done to the boy!

334 posted on 11/15/2011 6:56:01 AM PST by fortheDeclaration (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Burke)
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To: fortheDeclaration

How do showers destroy a moral compass? You beg the question with great vigor.


335 posted on 11/15/2011 6:57:43 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (bloodwashed not whitewashed)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I don’t know what you are driving at here.

This guy will go to jail just for the crime that he has admitted to on a news show. He can’t even claim ignorance of the law.


336 posted on 11/15/2011 6:59:18 AM PST by outpostinmass2
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To: fortheDeclaration

Here, why don’t you go look at an actual organization that is involved with treatment of homosexuals: http://www.narth.com

They chronicle many evils committed by adults by which children can be pulled into the lifestyle, but same sex showering by its lonesome does not appear to be among them.

You beg the question so much, void of facts or empirical study, you might as well put on a beggar’s cloak.


337 posted on 11/15/2011 7:00:36 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (bloodwashed not whitewashed)
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To: outpostinmass2

Michael Jackson pretty much admitted the same thing, and he walked.


338 posted on 11/15/2011 7:01:00 AM PST by dfwgator (I stand with Herman Cain.)
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To: outpostinmass2

Let’s see a court do it. Many people will be amazed that even trash talk about yourself outside a court will not necessarily convict you in a court.


339 posted on 11/15/2011 7:02:01 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (bloodwashed not whitewashed)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“But it sounds like the bearers of the allegations are unexpectedly now squirreling up a tree. “

No they are not and I still don’t know what your are driving at.

This is a place where we discuss news and topics. You want to wait for the courtroom then so be it. The rest of us can discuss this case and other topics.


340 posted on 11/15/2011 7:05:13 AM PST by outpostinmass2
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