Posted on 01/14/2012 3:09:53 PM PST by Zakeet
Joe Paterno sat in a wheelchair at the family kitchen table where he has eaten, prayed and argued for more than a half-century. All around him family members were shouting at each other, yet he was whispering. His voice sounded like wind blowing across a field of winter stalks, rattling the husks. Lung cancer has robbed him of the breath to say all that he wants to about the scandal he still struggles to comprehend, and which ended his career as head football coach at Penn State University. The words come like gusts. "I wanted to build up, not break down," he said.
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Paterno's hope is that time will be his ally when it comes to judging what he built, versus what broke down. "I'm not 31 years old trying to prove something to anybody," he said. "I know where I am." This is where he is: wracked by radiation and chemotherapy, in a wheelchair with a broken pelvis, and "shocked and saddened" as he struggles to explain a breakdown of devastating proportions. Jerry Sandusky, his former assistant coach at Penn State from 1969 to 1999, is charged with more than 50 counts of sexually abusing young boys over a 15-year period. If Sandusky is guilty, "I'm sick about it," Paterno said.
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A deposition of Joe Paterno was read in court on December 16, 2011. According to Paterno, he was told that Sandusky and a boy were in the shower. He knew Sandusky (58) and the boy were boy naked.
Jo Paterno said under oath "(McQueary) had seen a person, an older person, fondling a young boy. I don't know what you would call it, but it was of a sexual nature."
According to McQueary: ""I told Paterno I saw Jerry with a young boy in the showers. It was way over the lines, extremely sexual in nature."
Paterno may not have "really known what happened," if by that you mean, Paterno didn't know it was anal rape.
But Paterno knew it was a naked older man with a naked boy, doing something of a sexual nature ('extremely sexual' according to McQueary). When Paterno said "I don't know what you call it," Paterno is talking about the it activities that McQueary described to him - the 'extremely sexual' activities.
Based on that, do you still think Joe Paterno is off the hook?
You could not be more correct in your assessment. Great comment.
Paterno is basically off the hook because he has McQueary saying sexual and fondling, but not other evidence (AFAIK). At that point he has to ask himself if the potential crime is serious enough to call the cops right away and it's at that point that Paterno makes the mistake of thinking it was not.
I don’t care if they rename every building in the state after this scum paterno. The fact remains, (except for the brain dead denial idiots), this bastard KNEW of these child rape events and did NOTHING.
The bastard scum paterno’s accomplishments? May God strike me down if I ever allow a precious child to be raped on my watch. Yeah sonny, I really want to have an accomplishment on my record like that.
Joe will always be loved here, and I say that mostly to piss you off. Things are just not as simple as yo think.
I wish it were true — leadership is presently non-existent.
Thanks for the comment. While child abuse, regardless of the sex of the victim,is horrifying, little attention is being paid to the fact that Sandusky apparently abused boys only. And so the role of his homosexuality in all of this is left out of the story.
The wheel chair, the chemotherapy, the cancer, the broken pelvis don’t mean sh!t when you’re talking about a person who knowingly allowed a pervert to abuse young boys for perhaps decades.
The same can be applied to the homosexual invasion of the Catholic Church. The homosexual rape of little boys is never identified for what it is: homosexual predation, a practice far more common than the old media cares to report.
CNN: Corey Feldman: Biggest problem in Hollywood is pedophilia
According to former child star Corey Feldman, child molestation is rampant in the entertainment industry, as he told Nightline in an interview.
“The No. 1 problem in Hollywood was and is and always will be pedophilia,” he said Wednesday. According to Feldman, the casting couch exists for children, too.
Feldman asserts that directors and other adults in the industry take advantage of young aspiring actors on a regular basis. It’s all done under the radar... But it’s the big secret, the 40-year-old said.
Feldman also claimed that former co-star Corey Haim’s death last year was the end result of sexual abuse by an unnamed “Hollywood mogul.” Feldman said that his friends substance addiction was “a symptom of the molestation he experienced.
The actor previously revealed to GQ that he was raped by his assistant as a child. “It’s something that will be addressed in my inner soul for the rest of my life, and it’s something that truly affects me, he told the magazine.
Is this a surprise to anyone? Merely homomsexuals seeking the object of their loving obsession.
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