Posted on 11/11/2011 6:47:52 PM PST by Hoodat
How does a survivor of sexual abuse respond to students rioting at Penn State?
"You're not getting it. You just don't get it," said Dave Lorenz who was abused by a priest as a teen.
"It's just stupid youthfulness."
Earlier this week, legendary head football coach Joe Paterno was removed in the midst of a scandal involving sexual abuse allegations against a former defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky.
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Watching footage of Penn State students rioting in the streets Wednesday night, Lorenzo shuddered, then hung his head.
What bothered Lorenz is that students "rallied around (Paterno's) house, cheering him up."
"The kids up there just don't understand what this does," he said.
"Stop thinking of the adult and start thinking of what happens to a child that goes through this. You love the adult, you may not know the kid. Start thinking of the kid and the horror they go through, because it's hell."
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Kayla Garriott, a 22-year-old college student who was sexually abused as a child, said the open support for Paterno was disrespectful to survivors.
"That's the first thing people look at -- that their football team is without their head coach that's been there so many years. Nobody looks at the eight children."
The rioters are "never going to be in those children's shoes. It's not about football. It's about eight children who are never going to get back their lives back. They're going to live with this the rest of their lives. They might not get over that."
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Narcissist that you are, I’m not surprised you think that
You really should look into some of the marvelous strides medical science has been making in the treatment of bipolar affective disorder. I truly hate to see my fellow man suffer so.
The point is that many people (I don’t know if this includes you, but I suspect it does) read the report and then assume that Paterno knew exactly what Sandusky had done and had been doing all along. The facts support that he had no idea until 2002, at which point he knew that his graduate assistant had seen something. Paterno has said repeatedly that what was told to him was not explicit or detailed, which explains why he would still not be certain what Sandusky was doing.
Most narcissists are quite insecure, hence their disorder.
That is not my guess. A full investigation will take place and put everyone on the bench. The Regents had heard enough to understand the culpability. I do not wish this on anyone but a decision was made based on information afforded to them.
It will never come back. This story has legs and now Texas is involved. Before you know it, the FBI will stream out.
The Regents know this.
and the plot does thicken....interesting and no doubt will become newsworthy in this whole case.
Certainly by '02, he had allegations by McQueary who was not just a "graduate assistant" but had been his quarterback as an undergrad, and who would really have no motivation to falsify allegations against Sandusky. Even if McQueary was intentionally vague, Paterno's account the GJ specifically included the term "something sexual" with a young boy. There's just no walking it back from there to "no idea."
Wake up people!!!
Sounds like you're intimately familiar with the pathology.
Tell PSU to stop raping children and maybe that distraction will go away.
Yes, I and my sisters were subjected to one as children. Does that satisfy you? I know the type quite well.
Take the sand out of your eyes.....
Nope. I'm sorry to hear about it.
Go ahead and punch on me. I hate it as much as you do. It is a bad time for Penn State.
Sorry... that’s not a punch..just a tap.
The abuser, Jerry Sandusky, faces up to 460 years in prison.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2011/11/jerry-sandusky.html
Paterno just got fired.
Then the entire board of the University should also be fired and lose any and all professor chairs/positions they hold.
I know I would be devastated to hear this from UT. The worst part of this story is the legacy of Joe Paterno. The last of the old school that has weathered the storms and created a very successful environment. It is a shame.
Wasn't he Sandusky's boss for about 30 years? He either knew or should have known that something wasn't exactly right with this person who reported to him. Lots of other organizations would hold an executive responsible for not protecting the organization from this kind of fallout.
I've wiped cleaner things than Paterno off the bottom of my shoe.
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