I posted several quotes from the book back during the early days following Sandusky's arrest. Based on my reading, I did not get the impression Sandusky was molested by his father. He seemed very worshipful of his father. I recall he took his father's death very hard. As of yet, no abuse allegation pre-date the death of his father, which, I believe, was late 91. Perhaps Sandusky's respect for his father kept his sexual perversions in check. I'm certain Sandusky never wanted to disappoint him.
As for Sandusky's relationship with his mother, the picture is not as clear. He is more muted when discussing her. It may be significant to note that his mother set him up with Dottie. Did he marry his mother? I don't know. I think it's pretty clear he was not sexually attracted to women. He may have even been hostile to them, in partcular, to mothers since they were his rivals for the affections of the boys he desired.
JMO
BBM.
I need to clarify this again. I think it's pretty clear he wasn't into
adults. What Sandusky did had nothing to do with being into the same sex. It had to do with torturing and dominating and manipulating someone weaker and smaller and defenseless.
1. "Suicide Watch" is automatically done for convicted felons with their first time in prison. It's standard policy to watch them for several days and doesn't mean the person is actually suicidal.
2. Sandusky will never get out of prison. NEVER! I don't care who got parole in some other state way back 30 years ago...in this case, with this felon, he will die in prison. You can count on that.
3. Any appeal will fail. Sure his attorneys will try. And they will fail.
4. A prison to house sex offenders is as much to keep them away from a general population than anything else. Prisons are under legal obligation to house prisoners in a secure and safe manner.
5. Sandusky is not going to admit his wrongdoing. And even if he did (which he won't), he will not get parole that will have him out of prison by his 80th Bday. That's ridiculous! He'll die in prison. He's 68 now. Even if he is eligible for parole in 30 years, that's 98 yrs old. You really think he'll still be alive at 98 in prison? Nyet.
God bless you. 100% agree!
Indeed. There's no way anyone reaches that age and doesn't know a man can do that to another man. And JP proved to the end that he wasn't senile, with his preemptive statement to try to save his own azz that he would retire at the end of the season, right before the university sacked him.
O/T I made a decision today to never to refer to him as JoePa again. I've read that was a nickname given to him affectionately as a father figure to PSU students, football players or not.
And he failed spectacularly to act as a father figure to Sandusky's victims.
So that nickname is IMO just another lie.
Except Sandusky never did "that" to another "man". He raped babies, little boys, adolescents. I think Paterno's use of the word "man" was an attempt to minimize what happened.
You could very well be right. Growing up in the enviroment that he grew up in places a child in a vulnerable position, especially an only child with no older siblings to look after them.
I'm still perlexed by the lack of victims prior to 92, when Sandusky was 58. We assume there more, but, as of yet, none have come forward.
He has the interpersonal skills of a 12 year old, so who else is he going to have sex with? It's a "what came first? the chicken or the egg?" argument. I don't believe in applying a textbook answer to the question of why an individual behaves in a certain way. We need to learn more about him and his past before we can say anything more definite.
I'm probably going to be offending everyone today but describing a pedophile as a just a big kid who is into little kids because that's simply his mental age, his peer group, is what apologists for pedophiles always say.
It is a misconception. Sandusky is NOT a little kid or mentally stunted or emotionally retarded. He is a cunning, sociopathic predator who manipulated his young victims and their families (you better believe he wasn't just a "big, goofy kid" when it came to the parents of these victims), and later used the same techniques to try to manipulate the public and the jury. That failed.
Being able to snow young children with the act of being the kindly father figure or fun "uncle" or big brother, and being able to snow potentially concerned adults around those victims with the facade of the noble man who cares about and wants to rescue the hurt, is part of the game for these sickos. It is a diabolical part of their act and they get off on it.
Sandusky's letters to his young victim did not display, IMO, the mindset of an emotionally immature person who feels on par mentally with his victim. They showed a frightening monster who knew how to push his victim's buttons and who was trying, desperately, to maintain his psychological hold, via techniques that worked before, such as guilt trips and reminders of what were supposed to be innocent, father-son memories that his victim so needed to have and would have treasured had they not been irrevocably destroyed through the reality of child rape.
Pedophile are not adults who never grew up. They are evil monsters who relish catching weaker, defenseless prey and slowly destroying that prey. Make no mistake about that.
No he wasn't. He could not institute a police investigation any more than Schultz could order plays on the football field.
That is not say that Paterno couldn't have done some follow up, and put pressure on Schultz or Spanier to do more. I wish he was more decisive and had pressured them to investigate.
You want to give Paterno godlike powers, not only over the football program, but the university and Centre County government. A powerful figure, who was powerful because he raised money for the university, yes. In absolute control beyond the football program, no.
I may be taking this out of context (sorry) but I don't think picking up the phone and calling the police is god-like powers.
Question, in additon to the moral responsibility, wasn't Paterno a mandatory reporter as defined in PA law?
One would think. And even if not, to me it;s not rocket science. You hear of possible child abuse occurring in your domain, you call the damn cops. THEN, you've done your job and can rest.
The truth is, IMO, they didn't want to get rid of Sandusky or risk his perversion being made public. Football was more important than small boys.:twocents:
