To the perps they are because even Sandusky says to this day he loved those children. You and I know they are not but the perps and the ones who insulate and enable them like Paterno think they are just that, peccadilloes. They say oh that’’s just Jerry being Jerry. Look at Jimmy Saville in Britain, for fifty years all anyone would say about him was he was ECCENTRIC. Hell he was knighted by the Queen herself for his charity work. But let his gravy train stop and him die now everyone involved can jump on the bandwagon and turn him and his eccentric peccadilloes into rapist, pedophile, sadist and tear his enormous marble headstone down and burry him in an unmarked grave. Peccadilloes indeed!
Yeah, if they’re famous enough, they can count on Whoopie Goldberg telling people that “it wasn’t ‘rape’ rape.”