Jerry Sandusky and PSU - Page 29

On June 23 2012 12:03 Probe1 wrote:
I don't think that for all of his victims the nightmare will ever be over. That is why Sandusky is facing the possibility of life in prison. Molesting a minor isn't just shattered a childs innocence. It's risking a terrible chance of ruining a person for the rest of their lives.

The nightmare for Penn State? Maybe. I mean with time any institution will have its stain lifted by the passing years. But until this has passed well through recent memory it will still be a Blight on the university.

I want to say something but I don't really know how to say this without respecting the gravity of the crimes and how it transcends mere sports. I'm just going to say it and forgive me if it's callous to think of it at this time.

Every season until Bobby Bowden retired we had a friendly rivalry with Paterno. We were neck and neck with most wins and as fans we were pretty competitive with PSU. We'd wish that Paterno would retire or that they'd lose 12 games or whatever. Then Coach Bowden retires and ... this. It's pretty fucked up. All those years of wishing ill against Paterno and something like this happens. It makes you regret ever hoping a bad turn for your rival will help you win.

BELLEFONTE, Pa. -- Jerry Sandusky entered the Centre County Courthouse Friday as one of the most celebrated figures in the history of Penn State sports. He left a convicted child molester.

Following two days of jury deliberations, Sandusky was found guilty Friday of molesting several young boys.

The 68-year-old could spend the rest of his life in prison.

Sandusky was convicted of 45 of 48 criminal counts related to the alleged assault of 10 boys over a 15-year period. The allegations led to the ouster of the late Penn State University president and long-time coach Joe Paterno, who died in January.

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Prosecutors said Sandusky was a "predatory pedophile" and a "sick, disturbed man," who targeted "the most vulnerable kids, kids in need."

Defense lawyer Joe Amendola said Sandusky was the victim of a grand conspiracy and that prosecutors provided no physical evidence to prove he had molested anyone. Because of the allegations, "everything [Jerry Sandusky] ever loved, everything he's ever built, and everything he's ever stood for -- it's gone," Amendola said.

Sandusky did not testify on his own behalf, but his wife, Dottie Sandusky, did take the stand. She said she never witnessed any inappropriate contact between her husband and the young boys.

The case has attracted widespread media coverage, as Sandusky was one of the most notable assistant football coaches in the country and the founder of The Second Mile, a nonprofit charity for underprivileged and at-risk youth.

People reacted with unrestrained joy when word of the verdict reached the crowd outside the courthouse. Some were chanting "Justice," while others sat on the sidewalk in lawn chairs to enjoy the spectacle.

"Our grandson was best friends with Victim No. 1," Bill Andrus told The Huffinton Post. "They were on the junior high wrestling team together. So knowing Victim No. 1, we had a personal interest and were hopeful it would come out this way."

Kelly Houp, who lives in Bellefonte, had harsh words for the Sandusky family.

"I knew he was guilty," she said. "All those kids would not lie. Everyone knew he did it. Dottie knew too and she should be hung."

Crime expert Scott A. Bonn, an assistant professor of sociology at Drew University, called the decision "a certainty."

"This case shocked the nation, violated our collective sense of morality and demonstrated that our children may not be safe from sexual predators after all,” Bonn said. “The jury had a moral obligation to society to convict Sandusky, and the only verdict that could restore public trust and equilibrium is guilty. I would have been shocked by any other verdict.”

Sentencing is expected to take place within 90 days.

On June 24 2012 02:06 NeMeSiS3 wrote:


Did he hold them down and slam them?

I'm saying that this isn't some teenage girl walking down the street raped by a guy, this is victim after victim who were given options... This is very similar to Fleury's case a few months ago (and the book he came out with)...

Obviously, it's his fault that he was suggestive and his fault for doing the act, but if you want to tell me that victim after victim for X number of years were raped (full out, no choice raped) then, that's plain bullshit, this isn't a serial rapists catching girls and boys at preschool... its a coach taking advantage of weak kids wanting position, and the kids take the chance to move up.

Do I think he deserves life? Yes. Obviously we shouldn't let someone in position act in such a manner... But to think it was 100% him, and no choice given to any victim? imagine... Let's not live in a fairy tale, they're going to sensationalize their story "I had no option, it was that or nothing!" which again is where you bring yourself to ask... What would you have done?

Each one of those victims, was given position (ranked up) or allowed to stay because of what they did, some moved farther in the career because of it.

My position, is yes he had sex with these victims (in one way or another) but if we think they had no option and no way out, all of them? Then I believe we're fooling ourselves.

On June 23 2012 15:59 sc2superfan101 wrote:
i hate what they do, and to a certain degree, i have an uncontrollable hatred and disgust of the person who does something like that, but i think it's important to... not fight, but resist that reaction. i mean, they are fucking disgusting, they are horrible, they deserve something that i can't even describe... but they are humans too. i don't want the guy to be raped or murdered.

in some ways i think it's worse than murder... i won't make any assumptions, because no one who hasn't gone through something like that can understand shit about it, but i almost think i might rather be murdered. thats stupid to even say, i guess, because how the fuck would i know, but i just feel like it's true. i think it's good that people are so disgusted with the action and the person who does it, but i think it's also important to be able to forgive them on some level, and to have compassion even for them. they don't deserve it, necessarily, but i still think it's important.

this whole story is just so sad that it almost makes you want to cry. those poor kids were betrayed by everyone that should have been protecting them. fuck it makes me so mad i could punch a fucking hole through my computer screen.

On June 24 2012 02:36 BoX wrote:
And for the complete retards arguing that tha hatred for pedophiles and child molestors is "discriminatory" vs their "mental disease" - you're fucking retarded.

Their "mental disease" is a huge and imminent threat children. They will attack children. They will destroy lives.

You don't consider quarantine of the infectious sick to be discrimination against sickness, do you? Same shit. We quarantine people afflicted with highly infectious viruses because they are an imminent threat to society. Pedophiles are an imminent threat to society. They should be quarantined also. They might not kill millions, but I dunno about you, but one person's life destroyed is enough for me to want to act to prevent it.

On June 24 2012 00:12 xjoehammerx wrote:


Dude...no. Pedos don't deserve compassion. You cannot rehabilitate them; they never get any better. They are like rabid dogs. They need to be put down or locked up forever. Their rate of recidivism is very high because of the fact that they can't be rehabbed. They need to be freaking shot like animals.