In all this discussion - nobody has mentioned the responsibility of the parents in all this.
What did they know? Were they suspicious of an older man providing gifts to their boys, taking them on trips, spending time with them? Where were they?
“Where were they?”
Collecting and spending the checks from Penn State.
I have posted the statements made today by the mother if Victim #1. She was having problems with her son and Sandusky kept telling her he would 'take care of it'. She told Sandusky that she was the mother and for him to butt out of her son's life. On learning that Sandusky was taking her son out of classes on 'trips' she called the school and arranged a meeting with officials and her son to find out what was going on. Her son broke down in front of her and the officials and told what was happening.
The school officials urged her to very carefully consider the consequences of reporting this.
She immediately left the school with her son and went to the appropriate authorities. That's where this case finally broke wide open.
MANY times!!!! I will repost for the about the tenth time ....
In 1998, a mother went to the police about her son 'showering' with Sandusky in Joe's locker room. They set a trap and had Sandusky come over to the mom's house. They had the tapes of Sandusky confessing to the mom but the DA Gricar refused to prosecute. Why don't you ask Gricar why they didn't prosecute?