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I just can't get out of my mind how hurt and helpless these boys must have felt that grown men actually witnessed them being raped and turned and walked away. Who does that? WHO? How can they live with themselves?

It sickens me that this is just coming out when Sandusky is age 67. He doesn't have enough life left for a sentence deserving of what he has done.

I fear we will never know the true number of victims. I pray they find the courage to speak out and seek help to deal with their abuse.
 
For every new victim that comes forward there is a chance we will learn of other people who knew about what was going on and did nothing.
 
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/07/justice/pennsylvania-sandusky-profile/index.html

Sandusky's autobiography titled 'Touched'
By Mike Pearson and Josh Levs, CNN
updated 2:13 PM EST, Mon November 7, 2011

..."My time on this earth has always been unique," he writes. "At the times when I found myself searching for maturity, I usually came up with insanity. That's the way it is in the life of Gerald Arthur Sandusky."

He writes about people who have touched his life.

"I wish, sometimes, that I could press a button to bring back the times when life was so much simpler with the kids. The times when they didn't worry about what they were missing with drugs, alcohol and sex," he writes. "They didn't have to worry about protection from AIDS and HIV. They enjoyed life's simple pleasures in a naive time; a time of make-believe. There were simple activities and worthwhile outlets. People just enjoyed each other simply as people."

A search of the text of his book on amazon.com shows no other references to "sex," and no references to "abuse."...


Look at me I'm a great guy, I'm teaching kids there is more to life than drugs, alcohol and sex. :puke:
 
MagnoliaMom said:
I just can't get out of my mind how hurt and helpless these boys must have felt that grown men actually witnessed them being raped and turned and walked away. Who does that? WHO? How can they live with themselves?

It sickens me that this is just coming out when Sandusky is age 67. He doesn't have enough life left for a sentence deserving of what he has done.

I fear we will never know the true number of victims. I pray they find the courage to speak out and seek help to deal with their abuse.
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I can't get over that either. How the hell do you walk in on a ten yr old being raped and just turn and walk out again? And I've a horrible feeling that particular victim will never come forward, because the effect of knowing that another adult witnessed the rape and did nothing will have damaged him as much as the rape itself.

Heads should roll here, and not just Sandusky's.
 
Penn State will put Coach Paterno on Administrative Leave of Absence today or in the next day or two. They don't want to fire him and give him free reign to go on TV and fumble and stumble around this issue.

So we will see Phase 2 of the cover-up with Paterno on leave until the uproar dies down and then Penn State will accept the resignation of Paterno and have the going away party.

Will this work, no but they will try this as phase 2.
 
JP said in an interview last night that he has 17 grandchildren and he prays for them every night. In quite the magnanimous gesture, he announced that he will now pray for the "poor victims" in this "scandal". Now, just how many years did it take for him to realize that a child being brutalized need his prayers? I want to throw up!

It leads me to wonder what JP would do if he were to find out that one of his own grandsons were a "poor victim" in this "scandal".

I shudder at the word scandal. That merely sounds like someones "good name" will be sullied. In reality, many lives were altered by this crime, and who knows what path could have been taken by these kids had the crime against them not occured - if someone had cared enough to put a stop to it?

Now if we are to be honest and call this exactly what it is - a horrible crime, then those witnesses (and they ALL know who they are) should be accountable. It is still burning me up that no one stopped the deviant from doing exactly what he wanted to do. And by the way JP, every little boy is someone's grandchild. You are leaving your grandchildren quite the legacy. Feeling proud?
 
Sandusky's adopted son was 7 or 8 when he arrived in the Sandusky home.

Hard not to believe he may be a complainant, but I am just doing the math.

If you have information for the investigation, or you are a possible victim, please contact one of the following resources:

Office of the Attorney General: 814-863-1053

Pennsylvania State Police: 814-470-2238

You can remain anonymous.



This is a resource for those who have suffered from sexual abuse. YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

http://www.malesurvivor.org/

This is merely one of your possible resources.

I want to add one for SNAP-they are featuring Sandusky's case on their front page. They are experts regarding institutionalized sexual abuse of children.

http://www.snapnetwork.org/
 
I wanted to let you guys know that a group of us local to PSU (alumni, employees of the university...) are trying to turn an idea we came up with into a reality:

"You know what would be nice? If Penn State allowed a child-abuse prevention charity to collect donations at all of the gates to Beaver Stadium on Saturday. $1 from everyone would be over $100K. And they could do it again in the Spring for the Blue & White game. Now there would be a nice legacy."

We're trying to contact organizations to step up and sponsor this before we propose the idea to the university and we have a herd of people willing to volunteer their time. If anyone has any ideas on who to contact for sponsorship or media attention or is local to the area and wants to help out, please let me know!

Thanks!
Kina
 
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000...e-sexabuse-scandal?module=HP11_headline_stack

Paterno's NFL players react to Penn State sex-abuse scandal
NFL.com
Published: Nov. 8, 2011 at 09:57 p.m.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2011 at 06:40 a.m

..."It's a tough situation. I read about it all Saturday. I read all the reports," Carolina Panthers linebacker Dan Connor, who played under Paterno from 2004 to 2007, told The Charlotte Observer. "It's sad. That's the only way you can look at it. I guess there hasn't been a trial yet, but it was tough to read and it's going to be a scar.

"(Sandusky) had retired when I was there, but he was still around the building. Guys were familiar with him. He was tight with (linebacker Paul) Posluszny and a couple of other guys. It caught us off guard. You never see that coming."

Posluszny, who played at Penn State through the 2006 season, was equally shocked and disturbed.

"It's obviously a very, very disturbing situation for everybody involved," the Jacksonville Jaguars linebacker told The Florida Times-Union. "And if it's true, you feel so awful for the kids, their families, and it's just one of those things you say, 'I can't believe it. I can't believe it.'

"It's really, really hard to believe because he's -- Sandusky was a legendary coach that everybody held in such high regard. He was a very respectable, very honorable guy. That's what we all were led to believe. I just can't believe it happened."...
 
Kinalyn said:
I wanted to let you guys know that a group of us local to PSU (alumni, employees of the university...) are trying to turn an idea we came up with into a reality:

"You know what would be nice? If Penn State allowed a child-abuse prevention charity to collect donations at all of the gates to Beaver Stadium on Saturday. $1 from everyone would be over $100K. And they could do it again in the Spring for the Blue & White game. Now there would be a nice legacy."

We're trying to contact organizations to step up and sponsor this before we propose the idea to the university and we have a herd of people willing to volunteer their time. If anyone has any ideas on who to contact for sponsorship or media attention or is local to the area and wants to help out, please let me know!

Thanks!
Kina
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I think this is admirable. I think I would contact the AG or check in with child sexual abuse experts in the area to see where the money for an effort like this would do the most good.

Sandusky was successful because he established an organization which preyed on people who were poor and struggling...single parents, people who were poverty line etc. These people trusted him because he was Jerry Sandusky and he could give their children some things they would never ever be able to give the boys themselves.

So, personally, that is where I would start. Finding a way to empower an organization that would counter act his kind of evil-maybe the Boys and Girls Club of America...I wish you the best of luck.
 
Kinalyn said:
I wanted to let you guys know that a group of us local to PSU (alumni, employees of the university...) are trying to turn an idea we came up with into a reality:

"You know what would be nice? If Penn State allowed a child-abuse prevention charity to collect donations at all of the gates to Beaver Stadium on Saturday. $1 from everyone would be over $100K. And they could do it again in the Spring for the Blue & White game. Now there would be a nice legacy."

We're trying to contact organizations to step up and sponsor this before we propose the idea to the university and we have a herd of people willing to volunteer their time. If anyone has any ideas on who to contact for sponsorship or media attention or is local to the area and wants to help out, please let me know!

Thanks!
Kina
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Its a great idea, but IMO Penn state needs to do some house cleaning and lauch an internal inquiry before they become respectable enough for any charity to accept money from.

As for JP retiring at end of season - too little, too late.
 
Once again, it's all about poor Joe (bleeping) Paterno, isn't it. A disgrace to the state of Pennsylvania. And worse.
 
I agree that there is going to be a big distraction factor with any game appearances. I would think that the focus of his players might be some what rocked...and how about all of the typical insults they hurl at each other on the field, much less from the sidelines and the stands?
 
Cappuccino said:
Its a great idea, but IMO Penn state needs to do some house cleaning and lauch an internal inquiry before they become respectable enough for any charity to accept money from.

As for JP retiring at end of season - too little, too late.
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This is more along the lines of everyone related to PSU trying to stand together and relay the message that these 5 people don't represent the rest of us involved with what Penn State is about. It's alumni, students, and employees doing this. Not the actual administration.
 
Its a sickening spectacle. He's claiming that McQueary only told him about "inappropriate behaviour" in the shower, and not that he saw a child being raped. Well.....let's assume for a minute that's true - if McQ had told him " I saw Sandusky behaving inappropriately in the showers with your grandson," would Paterno have merely reported it to his boss and never followed up, and never gone to the police? Never even pulled Sandusky aside and asked him what the hell he was doing?

I'm guessing the answer is no, in which case the victims should tell him to stick his prayers where the sun doesn't shine.
 
Kinalyn said:
This is more along the lines of everyone related to PSU trying to stand together and relay the message that these 5 people don't represent the rest of us involved with what Penn State is about. It's alumni, students, and employees doing this. Not the actual administration.
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I understand that, which is why I say its a great idea on your part. Unfortunately, if I was in charge of a child abuse charity at the moment I would refuse to accept the money. That's a sad thing to say, but the institutionalised failure of Penn State administration taints any money from anyone in Penn State - alumni, students, employees, anyone - until some serious housecleaning has been done.
 
Cappuccino said:
I understand that, which is why I say its a great idea on your part. Unfortunately, if I was in charge of a child abuse charity at the moment I would refuse to accept the money. That's a sad thing to say, but the institutionalised failure of Penn State administration taints any money from anyone in Penn State - alumni, students, employees, anyone - until some serious housecleaning has been done.
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The Second Mile is in a tough spot as well. I hope they have opened their records to LE.
 
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