If you haven’t heard about the Penn State sexual abuse case yet, you either live in rural Connecticut where they are still trying to get power back or you are in a media free zone. Go Google it if you haven’t heard.
Now that we are all on the same page, I need to share my disgust.
- Dear Penn State: Why? Why did you not fire this guy back when the first allegation was made? Or at least stopped him from being with kids? You knew in 1998 that he was, at best, showering with boys on campus and at worst, having anal sex with boys on campus. What parts of this did you think would end by telling him to not shower with kids?
- Dear Mike McQueary: Really? at 28 you didn’t have the balls to do the right thing? Instead of calling the police, you chose to cover your own ass and tell Joe Pa. You should have stepped into the showers and stopped him. Taken the kid to the hospital. Gotten him help. Yet you waited. Many other kids suffered because of this. I am sorry you have to live with this decision the rest of your life.
- Jerry Sandusky: Go rot in jail. I don’t care if you are hetero or homo sexual. YOU DON’T BRING YOUR SEX TO KIDS! PERIOD! I hope you believe in a god so you can suffer the rest of your life for what you did to kids.
- Dear Penn State Student who rioted: How can you really act this way over football? FOOTBALL? Kids have been destroyed. And you turn it into a riot over football? Get over yourselves. I feel like an old bitchy lady, but seriously, BUCK UP and understand what your lovely university has done.
- NCCA: Wow. You will take away championships for teams where players sell their stuff, but when a true crime is committed you say "Not Football". Shame on you. Shame.
To be honest, the worst part of this entire scandal is that the culture of sports took over the moral and civil obligation to take care of those in our society who can’t take care of themselves. As long as there are people who think there was nothing done wrong on Joe Paterno’s part, we have failed. He should have done more. He has a son. What if it was his kid.?
Why is there a defense of "He only knew about one"? Isn’t one child rape enough?
This is the article every single Penn State student who rioted should read. And then they might understand why we are disgusted.
What’s boggling is that all of these disgraced people testified in front of a grand jury this past year. There is no “Hunh, there’s a problem with good ole Jerry?” He was still working out in the gym last week.
The saying is that in a grand jury, you can get people to indict a ham sandwich – so indictment doesn’t mean guilt.
But if you’ve spent a while getting grilled about the perv, wouldn’t you say, “Uhhhh, he’s still not on campus is he?”
It means they’re just doing see-hear-speak no evil as a way of hoping the problem goes away.
I agree! They set up a culture of allowing Jerry to hang around and bring more boys there. I cannot imagine nobody saw him bringing boys there.
You are right that Jerry’s not be convicted yet, but I have little sympathy based on the current allegations and the eyewitness.