Posted on 12/16/2011 9:00:22 PM PST by Libloather
Paterno 'knew' about child abuse
AFP – 3 hrs ago
Former Penn State University American football coach Joe Paterno knew his assistant Jerry Sandusky had been seen molesting a child, grand jury testimony said on Friday.
Paterno's testimony was read in court during a preliminary hearing for two senior university officials accused of lying to a grand jury about what they were told of an incident of alleged child sex abuse by Sandusky.
At the conclusion of the hearing, Judge William C. Wenner ruled that prosecutors have enough evidence to send their cases against Penn State team officials Tim Curley and Gary Schultz to a trial.
The two are facing charges they lied about and failed to report the alleged sexual assault. Both had testified before an earlier grand jury that they did not think a crime had been committed.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Okay, now I get it. He might have been ready to blow the whistle and that’s why he disappeared. WOW..
And his damaged hard drive and separate lap top were found in the nearby river.
His body hasn’t been recovered.
app;es to oranges
Very few people can play well enough to get picked by the pros. If you do, the uncertainty of a playing career isn't inspiring. You'd better have life skills other than playing a kid's game extremely well. However, all the people who love to watch the jockstraps play games will scream and howl like stuck pigs if Penn's precious athletics are threatened.
What’s wrong with these people?
The same thing that has been wrong with people throughout the entire history of humanity.
All it takes for evil to prosper, is that good men do nothing.
IF there is any truth to the allegation that Sandusky was pimping out his groomed boys to "wealthy donors"; and those folks were in danger of being "outed" through an investigation you're only one or two connections away from the wealthy crime syndicates who are very skilled in making people disappear.
McQueary said he did not provide explicit details of the March 2002 incident to Paterno but did so about 10 days later when contacted by Curley, the university's athletic director, and Schultz, the head of the school's police.
So, McQueary did not provide details to Paterno - - when he went to see him the next day - - but did provide deatils to the AD and the head of the school's police after those two finally contacted him 10 days later.
Good grief. I will cut the old man a little slack - - after all, Sandusky no longer worked for Paterno at the time, and Paterno did report his concerns to the AD and head of campus police - - but those other three need to do hard prison time.
throw in Lust and Acedia too.
That story was in the Daily Mail about two days after the Sandusky story broke...I can’t believe it has taken this long to be brought up...it stinks.
I did not see the Dateline piece, but I think it is important information.
I’m simply struggling to understand how it was even *possible* for such moral blindness to exist.
These same people understand how damaging sexual molestation is to girls. But boys are not really human with feelings, I guess, to some people. A lot of people view men like this, too.
It's a cover-up of abhorrent criminal activity.
Strike that, confused Syracuse with Penn State on Allred.
The more that people with behavioral disorders are encouraged and “celebrated” in our society, the more of these kinds of scandals we are going to see. The question is, how long are Americans going to sit still for the sewage being pumped into our culture?
Paterno was told a child was molested!
That is a police matter, not something to be pushed up to the AD.
Amazing on a Conservative site you would attempt to justify those acts!
What? Paterno wasn't "sorry" the kid was being sexually abused; only that the witnessing of it extended further than desired?
What a moral moron and a moral midget!!!
From the article: According to Paterno's grand jury testimony McQueary reported to him that Sandusky was doing something with a "sexual nature" to the boy. Paterno told McQueary he had "done the right thing" by telling him. McQueary said the coach appeared shocked and saddened and said he would talk to others about what McQueary had told him. "I didn't push Mike... because he was very upset," Paterno said. "I knew Mike was upset and I knew some kind of inappropriate action was being taken by Jerry Sandusky with a youngster."
Yup. Paterno knew.
There's cancer of the body; there's also cancer of the soul.
Heyyyyy I will write you a message but I thought you might find this thread of interest, however sadly.
I wrote this comment #13 before I’d seen your comments on another thread, then was looking for prior FR threads on the Sandusky matter.... saw that your (much more developed) comments on the the “homosexual agenda” on campuses and in our culture more broadly was pretty much what I was starting to think about here.
i.e., I agree with you that this could have happened (does happen) in many many different places and settings, that there has been a huge breakdown in standards due to the onslaught of (what I called) a “gay mafia” on campuses etc. with what you call the “homosexual agenda.”
While acknowledging other issues about Penn State’s former Pres. Spanier and the football program etc., I agree with you that much needs to be understood in terms of large cultural and moral changes which have influenced many people toward (1) fear of speaking out, and (2) tolerance of perversity.
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