Posted on 06/02/2017 11:26:33 AM PDT by Wolfie
Judge slams Paterno, McQueary as he sends Spanier, Curley and Schultz to jail over Sandusky child-sex case
Senior Judge John Boccabella spared no one, not even Mike McQueary or Joe Paterno, as he sentenced former Penn State President Graham Spanier and two of his top aides to prison Friday for fumbling a chance in 2001 to stop child-sex predator Jerry Sandusky.
Spanier, former PSU Athletic Director Tim Curley, ex-vice president Gary Schultz, Paterno or McQueary, the man who claimed he saw Sandusky molesting a young boy in a university shower room, could stopped Sandusky with a single phone call to the cops, Boccabella said.
Yet, he observed, none of them even tried to dial the number. Instead, Boccabella noted, Spanier, Curley and Schultz decided to do nothing.
"Why no one made a phone call to the police...is beyond me. Why Mr. Sandusky was allowed to continue to use the Penn State facilities is beyond me," Boccabella said. "Mr. Paterno, the legendary football football coach, could have made that phone call without so much as getting his hands dirty."
Former Penn State leaders Tim Curley, Graham Spanier and Gary Schultz will serve prison terms for failing to report a possible child-sex incident involving Jerry Sandusky in 2001
Spanier, former PSU Athletic Director Tim Curley, ex-vice president Gary Schultz, Paterno or McQueary, the man who claimed he saw Sandusky molesting a young boy in a university shower room, could stopped Sandusky with a single phone call to the cops, Boccabella said.
Yet, he observed, none of them even tried to dial the number. Instead, Boccabella noted, Spanier, Curley and Schultz decided to do nothing.
"Why no one made a phone call to the police...is beyond me. Why Mr. Sandusky was allowed to continue to use the Penn State facilities is beyond me," Boccabella said. "Mr. Paterno, the legendary football football coach, could have made that phone call without so much as getting his hands dirty."
Perhaps the most surprising facet of Friday's 2 1/2-hour hearing was that Spanier, the only one of three former Penn State administrators to go to trial, received the lightest prison term on his child endangerment conviction.
Boccabella, who called Spanier's situation a "Shakespearean tragedy," sentenced the 69-year-old to 4 to 12 months in prison, followed by 2 years of probation. He ordered Spanier to spend 2 months behind bars, followed by another four months on house arrest. And he hit him with a $7,500 fine.
The judge told Spanier he was convinced he relied too heavily on the information Curley and Schultz provided him after McQueary reported the shower room incident "and that may have been a mistake."
"I'm not so sure that you were totally responsible for the lack of action," Boccabella said.
It didn't go so easy for Schultz and Curley, even though both men pleaded guilty to child endangerment charges and testified for the prosecution during Spanier's Dauphin County trial in March.
Unlike Spanier, who displayed little visible emotion, Curley and Schultz both wept as they asked Boccabella for mercy.
The judge hit Curley the hardest, imposing a 7- to 23-month jail term, with the last four months of it to be on house arrest. Curley too received 2 years of probation and a $5,000 fine.
Boccabella was openly skeptical about Curley's testimony during the trial that he didn't recall specifics about some of the conversations that led to the decision not to sic the cops and child welfare authorities on Sandusky in 2001. "I was unimpressed by your testimony during the trial," the judge said.
"You probably made the most glaring error because this (athletics) was your bailiwick," Boccabella added.
The judge said he was impressed by Schultz's remorse when he imposed a 6- to 23-month jail term, of which Schultz will spend 4 months on house arrest. His fine and probation will be the same as Curley's.
Well, that’s a start anyway.
I bet none of them actually serves jail/prison time. Some deal will be made, even at this late date.
Im unimpressed with the sentencing. The talk was just fluff from the judge.
Could the Judge be the same John Bocabella who played for the Montreal Expos?
The should dig up Paterno’s body and put it in prison too. It can share a cell with Jerry Sandusky.
Looks like it isn’t just priests who take care of each other.
Send the all to jail and shut down Penn State.
Right. The whole system was corrupted 80 years ago and the system is controlled by the Lucifereans/psychopathic sodomites who “love’ and torture the little boys and pass them around. J. Edgar Hoover took boys for pay.
Watched something on Comey and his prediliction with little boys that looked and dressed like Howdie Doody (It makes sense). Wonder what blackmail stuff Clintons had on him???? Just saying-—they are ALL in the occult-Luciferean rings if they promote sodomy marriage and abortion, etc. Vice can never be promoted in a true “Justice” (virtue) system.
Just talking with a retired policeman from CA who grew up in the islands. He said the police—the FBI-—were running prostitution rings in Hawaii in the 70s, 80s and 90s that he knew about.....they got tons of kickbacks to allow the rape of children smuggled in from other countries. The police are handcuffed-—can’t do anything about the corruption or they are disposed of themselves or lose their job. They are FORCED to look the other way.
The Franklin Cover-up in the White House was a CIA-run boy-sex ring connected to Barney Frank (homosexuals and VP Bush, ) and Frank’s running a prostitution ring from his apartment (with boys) and his evil “boyfriend”. At least 1/3rd of the Congress is probably on tape (like Hastert)-—with kids, as of the people who went to Epstein’s island. It is all about blackmail and controlling politicians or the rich and powerful. Barney got off because he had blackmail material on a lot of Congressmen.
Sodomy has nothing to do with “Love” and everything to do with domination and control and forcing vice and irrationality on little children. They are trying to normalize sodomy in our children since vice creates slaves and destroys virtue formation—that which is necessary for freedom. It is also the Crowley/Pike “sex magic”-—occult practice of the elite masons (Lucifereans and all secret societies) which has sodomy of little children and blood-drinking, cannibalism as part of their rituals. They sodomize each other for their loyalty oath system.
Sandusky was part of a huge boy-sex trafficking ring like pizza-gate, and exactly like the Franklin Cover-up and it involved judges, professors, politicians, etc, like all the cartel-run sex rings.
Sodomy needs to be made a felony again like all rational Christian countries used to have. Removing Reason and Logic and destroying language is the Marxist way to destroy our Constitution and eliminate the Christian worldview in children-—the only worldview which led to the Constitution and individualism and free will.
McQueary should go to jail too. He should have stopped it immediately, but ran to his daddy instead.
What a worm.
Spanier is a POS and I hope he rots in hell. He has always known along with the police and two PA Governors. The rumors were out there among many. He and his staff turned PSU into a deviant cesspool. I also think there is a far wider conspiracy of pedophilia that will be forgotten. As for Joe Paterno? There are no words. He was idolized and was the standard bearer for goodness. Any good done is overshadowed by these crimes and his name is synonymous with it.
Institutionalized rape and sexual assault, no problem.
Paying players a few hundred bucks (SMU), we now, that’s a problem.
Sandusky’s wife should be locked up too. She was in the house while at least one boy was screaming as he was raped in the basement. She was at the top of the stairs in the kitchen.
McQueary would eventually win a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Penn State, even though he never reported witnessing the shower incident to the Police.
McQueary’s own Father, and the Father's lawyer, advised Mike McQueary not to report it to the Police.
There is also the secondary issue of the testimony of Penn State's on-staff chief legal counsel.
The three men going to jail discussed this issue with her on multiple occasions, while under the impression that they had a lawyer-client relationship with her, and that she was their advocate.
The moment the state of Pennsylvania began to hint that Penn State executives might face criminal charges, Penn State's chief legal counsel instantly made a deal with prosecutors to testify against the men who sought her legal advice.
No charges were ever filed against the Penn State chief legal counsel, and the three convicted men vigorously denied parts of the chief counsel's testimony.
In addition, the two guys who got longer sentences made plea deals and testified against the Penn State President, who was convicted at trial for a misdemeanor, not a felony.
I'm not going to argue any of the questions about the moral responsibility of the three convicted men.
But legally, these three convictions are a steaming pile of crap.
I suspect you are right, and all of this evil is much more widespread than we can imagine. How sad.
Those sentenc3es are chickenshit sentences! Should have gotten a good 10 year hit with no parole or pardon! this does prove that they are guilty and that Penn State is a cesspool!
‘The three men going to jail discussed this issue with her on multiple occasions, while under the impression that they had a lawyer-client relationship with her, and that she was their advocate.’
well, you know what they say; ignorance is no excuse...
‘Could the Judge be the same John Bocabella who played for the Montreal Expos?’
different guy altogether...remember how the PA announcer at Olympic stadium used to lovingly pronounce Boc’s name...?
All were wrong in this but if it wasnt for McQ, this would likely still be happening. Remember, JoePa was considered God there, so anyone who crossed him was done forever. Give McQ a little break for doing what was right at the time.
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