ThoughtFox
Expecting the Unexpected
I tried to copy from the GJ report without success, but under Victim 1, go to Steve Turchetta's statement about 'several students who were left alone with Sandusky, including victim 1', and about the arguments he had to mediate between JS and 'various youths' when JS wanted more time with them....
http://cbschicago.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/sandusky-grand-jury-presentment.pdf
Thanks to FloatingStar, here is the section about Turchetta and other students:
"Steven Turchetta testified that he was an assistant principal and the head football coach at the high school attended by Victim l. He testified that Sandusky was a volunteer assistant football coach. Sandusky also worked with children in the Second Mile program in that school district. Turchetta described the Second Mile as a very large charitable organization that helped children who are from economically underprivileged backgrounds and who may be living in single parent households. Turchetta first met Sandusky in 2002 when Sandusky attempted to assist some Second Mile members who were on Turchettas football team. Sandusky's involvement grew from there. in the 2008 season, Sandusky was a full-time volunteer coach. Turchetta said it was not unusual for him, as assistant principal, to call a Second Mile student out of activity period at the end of the day, at Sanduskys request, to see Sandusky. He knew of several students who were left alone with Sandusky, including Victim l. Turchetta characterized Sandusky as very controlling within the mentoring relationships he established with Second Mile students. Sandusky would often want a greater time commitment than the teenagers were willing to give and Sandusky would have "shouting matches" with various youths, in which Turchetta would sometimes be the mediator. Turchetta would also end up being Sanduskys point of contact for a youth whom be had been unable to reach by phone the previous evening. Turchetta testified that Sandusky would be *clingy" and even "needy" when a young man broke off the relationship he had established with him and called the behavior "suspicious."
But what did Turchetta do about his suspicians? Did he talk to other coaches? The principal? The other people at Second Mile?
Maybe he originally saw Sandusky's shouting matches as some type of tough love to get through to the boys? My own son played football for years and some of his coaches were intimidating that way during practice, but the kids learn to take it in stride (or they quit the team because they hate it).
However, I've never heard of a coach, volunteer or not, who singled out boys for one-on-ones this way, or called them after school. And I just hope people understand that it is not normally the way things are done in high school football, or any sport. This coach Turchetta surely realized that, but once again we come back to the fact that Second Mile was the perfect situation for Sandusky because it was all done in the name of charity and "helping troubled teens." And that's why people looked the other way, imo. :twocents: