• Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky leaves the Centre County Courthouse after being sentenced in his child sex abuse case on October 9, 2012 in Bellefonte, PA. (cnn.com)
  • On November 4, 2011, a grand jury report was released containing testimony that former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sexually abused eight young boys over a period of at least 15 years. (cnn.com)
  • The parallel sex-abuse trials of Msgr. William Lynn and former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky are revealing deep differences among those who once revered both men . (votf.org)
  • Inside the stadium, Spanier, Curley, and vice president Gary Schultz worry about a grand jury investigating accusations of child sexual abuse against Jerry Sandusky, a retired assistant coach. (wikipedia.org)
  • After a short trial that began on June 11 that had charged former Penn State football defense coach Jerry Sandusky with sexual abuse of 10 boys, the jury delivered a verdict tonight finding Sandusky guilty of 45 counts of sexual abuse that could potentially sentence him  up to 442 years. (thenewcivilrightsmovement.com)
  • They would love to use it against gay people, but Jerry Sandusky is about as straight as you get, a macho, married football coach. (teachthefacts.org)
  • The university's Board of Trustees dismissed Spanier and Paterno days after PSU drew national attention when former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was charged with sex crimes against minors. (ecampusnews.com)
  • Jerry Sandusky leaves the Centre County Courthouse on June 22, 2012, after being found guilty in his sexual abuse trial, in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. (nbcnews.com)
  • Jerry Sandusky lost a bid for a new trial Tuesday but a Pennsylvania appeals court ordered him to be resentenced for a 45-count child molestation conviction. (nbcnews.com)
  • In 2013, Penn State said it would pay $59.7 million to 26 young men over claims of child sexual abuse at the hands of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. (kanw.com)
  • In 2011, after 46 seasons as Penn State's head football coach and a record 409 victories, Joe Paterno was fired along with the university president, Graham Spanier, over their handling of child sex abuse allegations against former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. (ksat.com)
  • Paterno was engulfed in a child sex abuse scandal when a former trusted assistant, Jerry Sandusky, was accused of molesting 10 boys over a 15-year span, sometimes in the football building. (usforacle.com)
  • Those were sanctions the university had placed on it after the Jerry Sandusky child-abuse scandal. (ksl.com)
  • At the Jerry Sandusky trial in 2012, McGettigan and Fina worked side by side as prosecutors on behalf of the state attorney general's office. (bigtrial.net)
  • They include former Penn State President Graham Spanier, former PSU Vice President Gary Schultz, former PSU athletic director Tim Curley, convicted child abuser Jerry Sandusky, and former state Attorney General Kathleen Kane. (bigtrial.net)
  • On that day, longtime Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was arrested and charged (and eventually convicted) for his widespread sexual abuse of underage boys. (celebritywshow.com)
  • For instance, the world of college American football was rocked in 2011 when Pennsylvania State University assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was indicted on dozens of counts of child molestation. (org.gr)
  • â€" Penn State's former president and two other ex-administrators learned Wednesday they will go to trial next month, nearly six years after the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal first became public. (campbellrivermirror.com)
  • Smith compared Namath's alleged negligence to late former Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno , who was accused of being aware of longtime defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sexually abusing young boys at the team's facilities for more than a decade. (iheart.com)
  • This question ("Why is Jerry Sandusky in jail? (blogspot.com)
  • Apparently, if Jerry Sandusky had been a Roman noble or a teacher at an English boarding school instead of a football coach in America, he not only would have not gone to jail, he would probably have been envied and imitated. (blogspot.com)
  • The assistant coach at Penn State University, Jerry Sandusky , was convicted as a child molester in 2012 with 52 counts of sexual abuse of boys over a 15-year period. (eonline.com)
  • He was the guy who saw the now imprisoned former coach Jerry Sandusky raping a boy in a Penn State shower. (coyoteblog.com)
  • He came to my attention during the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. (peopleiwanttopunchinthethroat.com)
  • Earlier this month, the charity that Jerry Sandusky formed in 1977 made final arrangements to close for good. (soloffandzervanos.com)
  • happening today, a state appeals court judge will hear a case related to three former penn state administrators who were accused in the jerry sandusky scandal. (archive.org)
  • The Penn State investigation of allegations of child sexual abuse by Jerry Sandusky is a prime example. (brookspierce.com)
  • I think that must be what the rioting Penn State students and anyone else making excuses would say to the victims of child rapist Jerry Sandusky, if they felt the need to say anything to them at all. (equalityloudoun.org)
  • Here's a look at the Penn State sexual abuse scandal. (cnn.com)
  • It stars Al Pacino as former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, and his career leading up to his dismissal following the university's child sex abuse scandal in 2011. (wikipedia.org)
  • The sex abuse scandal that has tarnished Penn State University, also resulted in the firing of Joe Paterno, who had led the celebrated football program for 46 years. (thenewcivilrightsmovement.com)
  • The scandal also led to the ouster of university president Graham Spanier , and criminal charges against two university administrators for failing to properly report suspected child abuse and perjury. (thenewcivilrightsmovement.com)
  • The Sandusky scandal also resulted in a change to state laws that protect abused children. (nbcnews.com)
  • Paterno , a sainted figure at Penn State for almost half a century but scarred forever by the child sex abuse scandal that brought his career to a stunning end, died Sunday at age 85. (usforacle.com)
  • Hearing Diane Sawyer, Joe Scarborough, Anderson Cooper and other national network news anchors address the child sex abuse at Penn State in relation to the Church scandal is fortifying. (catholics4change.com)
  • March 2, 2002 - Graduate Assistant Mike McQueary tells Coach Joe Paterno that on March 1, he witnessed Sandusky sexually abusing a 10-year-old boy in the Lasch Building showers. (cnn.com)
  • Paterno says that Sandusky's The Second Mile charity helped many children. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mary Kay Paterno asks her father why he waited two days to report McQueary's account-"You hear about someone diddling my kids? (wikipedia.org)
  • Sue and Joe Paterno discuss a Sugar Bowl during the 1970s, at which Sandusky played with their young children at a hotel pool while Paterno was preparing for the game. (wikipedia.org)
  • Another alleged victim tells Ganim that he told Paterno that Sandusky abused him in 1976. (wikipedia.org)
  • Â Paterno lamented his failure to effectively report Sandusky to Penn State officials after he was notified by Mike McQueary, an assistant football coach in December 2001, who witnessed Sandusky naked and standing behind a naked boy in a Penn State shower facility. (thenewcivilrightsmovement.com)
  • Paterno said he wished he had done more to have addressed the allegations against Sandusky. (thenewcivilrightsmovement.com)
  • The PSU page, especially in the hours after Paterno was fired, was littered with comments laced with profanities and personal attacks on university officials and people mentioned in the 23-page grand jury report that outlined Sandusky's many crimes against boys. (ecampusnews.com)
  • But outrage built quickly when the state's top cop said the coach hadn't fulfilled a moral obligation to go to the authorities when a graduate assistant, Mike McQueary, told Paterno he saw Sandusky with a young boy in the showers of the football complex in 2002. (usforacle.com)
  • I took what at the time was an unpopular stance against Joe Paterno and other Penn State staffers and I was attacked for it. (peopleiwanttopunchinthethroat.com)
  • Yesterday the the former head of the FBI, Louis Freeh, released his findings in the Sandusky case and they've said that without a doubt Joe Paterno and other officials at Penn State knew what was going on and they helped cover it up. (peopleiwanttopunchinthethroat.com)
  • Sandusky, McQueary, Paterno and anyone else who knew about the abuse should be punished, often, for a very long time. (peopleiwanttopunchinthethroat.com)
  • Penn State's board of trustees proved that in explaining why they fired Joe Paterno for his role in the Sandusky child sexual abuse cover-up. (terrigivens.com)
  • We also know that in 2002, then grad assistant, Mike McQueary , actually saw the same former defensive coordinator engaged in a sexual act with a ten year old child in a PSU locker room and reported it to Joe Paterno after calling his father. (blogspot.com)
  • The folks at Penn State should be ashamed of themselves if children were allowed to be raped in order to protect the legacy of Joe Paterno and his football program. (blogspot.com)
  • As reporters besiege Paterno's home, the coach tells his family that when a distraught Mike McQueary told him in 2001 about seeing Sandusky sexually assaulting a young boy in the men's shower room on campus, he did his legal duty by telling Curley and Schultz. (wikipedia.org)
  • Spanier and two other retired Penn State administrators, vice president Gary Schultz and athletic director Tim Curley, were convicted of child endangerment for failing to notify authorities in 2001 of a complaint about Sandusky and a boy in a team shower. (nbcnews.com)
  • In 2001, the families of people killed in the September 11 terrorist attack gathered in New York for a memorial service filled with prayer and song. (kanw.com)
  • The three administrators handled a graduate assistant's report in 2001 claiming he had seen Sandusky, then retired, sexually abusing a boy inside a team shower late on a Friday evening. (campbellrivermirror.com)
  • Acts of sexual assault include forced sexual intercourse (rape), sodomy (oral or anal sexual acts), child molestation, incest, fondling and attempted rape. (karisable.com)
  • According to Sandusky, the child involved will testify that McQueary is lying about what he claimed to have seen. (teachthefacts.org)
  • At a preliminary hearing for the school officials, McQueary testified that he had seen Sandusky attacking the child with his hands around the boy's waist but said he wasn't 100 percent sure it was intercourse. (usforacle.com)
  • McQueary was vilified for not acting to stop the attack. (coyoteblog.com)
  • 2000 - James Calhoun, a janitor at Penn State, tells his supervisor and another janitor that he saw Sandusky sexually abusing a young boy in the Lasch Building showers. (cnn.com)
  • 1998 - Penn State police and the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare investigate an incident in which the mother of an 11-year-old boy reported that Sandusky showered with her son. (cnn.com)
  • 1998 - Psychologist Alycia Chambers tells Penn State police that Sandusky acted the way a pedophile might in her assessment of a case in which the mother of a young boy reported that Sandusky showered with her son and may have had inappropriate contact with him. (cnn.com)
  • June 1, 1998 - In an interview, Sandusky admits showering naked with the boy, saying it was wrong and promising not to do it again. (cnn.com)
  • Ganim and her editor discuss other allegations against Sandusky from 1998 and later, such as the rape of a young boy at the 1999 Alamo Bowl. (wikipedia.org)
  • Foglietta, who was later revealed to be a serial pedophile after his death in 1998, was allegedly allowed to repeatedly sexually attack Smith when the victim was 12, according to court documents, which referred to Namath -- who led the New York Jets to their only Super Bowl in franchise history -- and other defendants as 'enablers and the pedophile protectors. (iheart.com)
  • Sandusky was immediately taken into custody and will spend his first night in jail after months of media reports that revealed sordid details about Sandusky's serial pedophilia of male children during a 15-year period while working at Penn State University where many of his criminal sexual acts were committed in the football program's athletic facilities. (thenewcivilrightsmovement.com)
  • And clearly they care more about protecting Penn State University and not the lives of innocent children. (blogspot.com)
  • Initially founded by Sandusky in 1977 as a group foster home for troubled boys, but grew into a non-profit organization that "helps young people to achieve their potential as individuals and community members. (cnn.com)
  • August 27, 2012 - The Second Mile requests a stay in their petition to transfer its programs to Arrow Child & Family Ministries saying, "this action will allow any pending or future claims filed by Sandusky's victims to be resolved before key programs or assets are considered for transfer. (cnn.com)
  • The most obvious is that no one would have been put in danger, and the financial costs were nil, for the Penn State coaches to stop Sandusky's abuse. (coyoteblog.com)
  • It has been nearly five years since the American public first heard about Jerry Sandusky's horrible crimes against children. (soloffandzervanos.com)
  • As new information was revealed and investigations were conducted, it became clear that Sandusky's pattern of sexual abuse was allowed to continue for so long because Penn State officials turned a blind eye. (soloffandzervanos.com)
  • Sandusky's victims must live with the aftermath of his abuse for the rest of their lives. (soloffandzervanos.com)
  • The board stated, "…[H]is decision to do his minimum legal duty and not to do more to follow up [to stop Sandusky's abuses sooner] constituted a failure of leadership. (terrigivens.com)
  • Sandusky was found guilty in 2012. (cnn.com)
  • Curley and Schultz pled guilty to one count each of child endangerment. (bigtrial.net)
  • One hundred and fifty-six young women were abused by the same man: former Team USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar who had already pleaded guilty to 10 counts of sexual assault for abusing young girls under the guise of medical treatment. (org.gr)
  • Included is a timeline of accusations, lists of the charges against Sandusky, a list of involved parties, a post grand jury report timeline, information about The Second Mile charity and Sandusky with links to the grand jury investigation. (cnn.com)
  • Paterno's wife Sue and their adult children, including assistant coach Jay and lawyer Scott, are horrified by the accusations against Sandusky. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although he is so traumatized by the abuse he suffered that he does not want his mother to read the presentment, high school student Aaron Fisher, known in Ganim's articles as "Victim 1", was the first to publicly testify against Sandusky. (wikipedia.org)
  • In late 2010, former Penn State Athletic Director Timothy Curley, Vice President for Finance and Business Gary Schultz and President Graham Spanier were subpoenaed to a grand jury to testify regarding two alleged incidents of sexual abuse by Sandusky that had been reported to them.4 At the time of their respective grand jury appearances, they were not targets of its investigation. (brookspierce.com)
  • Penn State officials have been charged with a crime for not reporting a similar allegation against Sandusky in 2002. (teachthefacts.org)
  • March 2016 - After years of dismantling and distributing assets to Arrow Child & Family Ministries and any remaining funds to the Pennsylvania Attorney General to hold in escrow, the organization is dissolved. (cnn.com)
  • On behalf of greg Posted in Sexual Abuse on Friday, January 29, 2016. (soloffandzervanos.com)
  • Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo, a veteran prosecutor not involved in the Sandusky case, said the county judge will have a lot of discretion, up to the statutory maximum, when the resentencing occurs. (nbcnews.com)
  • In this case, they abused children. (metafilter.com)
  • In my case, I don't receive child support so I'm on the lowest level for some payments, but that's by choice. (blogspot.com)
  • In the concrete case of harassment and abuse, the IOC toolkit points out that it encompasses psychological and physical abuse, sexual harassment, sexual abuse, and neglect. (org.gr)
  • This case is equally about the many adults in positions of power at the [camp] including Joe Namath and [former Jets defensive back and camp partner John ] Dockery , who were aware of, tolerated and covered up known sexual abuse at the camp, abuse that had a lasting effect on Doe,'' the allegations in amended court papers filed in 2021 stated. (iheart.com)
  • Sandusky, who coached one of America's most illustrious college football teams, recruited his young victims through a charity he founded for troubled youths. (org.gr)
  • The Second Mile was founded with the stated mission of helping disadvantaged youth, but Sandusky met and groomed at least some of his victims through his work with the charity. (soloffandzervanos.com)
  • Sandusky had filed an ambitious appeal that argued a range of flaws occurred in the investigation, trial and sentencing, but the three-judge appeals ruled against all of them before granting him a new sentencing hearing. (nbcnews.com)
  • At the end of a three-day hearing before the state Supreme Court's disciplinary board, McGettigan started out by attacking the investigation of Fina as "dishonorable and shameful. (bigtrial.net)
  • The Sandusky conviction was delivered on the five-month anniversary of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno's death. (thenewcivilrightsmovement.com)
  • Sandusky, Penn State's longtime assistant football coach, was convicted in 2012 of child sexual abuse involving 10 boys. (campbellrivermirror.com)
  • He was a coach who was sentenced to 40 years in prison after authorities discovered a pattern of sexual abuse that stretched over three decades at clubs up and down the West Coast and involved more than a dozen teenaged female victims - one of whom said she had an abortion after he got her pregnant when she was 14. (org.gr)
  • All faced charges related to their failure to report Sandusky to authorities, instead trying to handle matters quietly and internally. (soloffandzervanos.com)
  • Boccabella threw out charges of failing to properly report suspected abuse, ruling that the statute of limitations had expired. (campbellrivermirror.com)
  • June 1999 - Sandusky retires from Penn State after coaching there for 32 years, but receives emeritus status, with full access to the campus and football facilities. (cnn.com)
  • Pro Football Hall of Famer Joe Namath is accused of covering up child sexual abuse that allegedly occurred at his football camp 51 years ago, according to court papers obtained by the New York Post . (iheart.com)
  • Smith claims he was abused by then-Brooklyn Poly Prep Country Club football coach Philip Foglietta . (iheart.com)
  • After Adrian Peterson's 4-year-old son was found with multiple injuries, the football player was indicted in September 2014 with charges of negligent injury to a child. (eonline.com)
  • they face charges that they covered up child sex abuse allegations against sandusky, the former assist and the football coach who is now serving prison time. (archive.org)
  • We are talking about the alleged rape of children by a man who could have been stopped years ago, but who was allowed to allegedly continue because a great institution and football program had to be protected at all cost. (blogspot.com)
  • So what do we do with a football program that possibly covers up sexual assaults on children? (blogspot.com)
  • May 25, 2012 - The Second Mile requests court approval in Centre County, Pennsylvania, to transfer its programs to Arrow Child & Family Ministries and shut down. (cnn.com)
  • The attack on Christian moral norms, which traditionally have safeguarded the sacrality of sex for the intimate fruitful bonds of marriage, is the direct cause for the increasing social sanction of sexual depravities of every kind including pedophilia. (blogspot.com)
  • He thinks it's terrible to require people to report crimes against children when they witness them, says it goes against our values: "We are not a nation of snitches. (teachthefacts.org)
  • However, I do think he made a terrible error in judgment when he didn't report the abuse to the police. (peopleiwanttopunchinthethroat.com)
  • The findings in this report and in previous studies are clear on the serious implications for our country's collective future: if we continue down a path of harsh enforcement-only immigration policies and disregard the safety and long-term wellbeing of millions of children in immigrant families across the country, we as a nation will ultimately pay the price. (clasp.org)
  • And on the disciplinary board's side, McGettigan said, were the two Penn State "truthers" who had viciously attacked his client by filing their complaint, "probably" at the behest of "defendants' lawyers. (bigtrial.net)
  • The U.S. is big enough and strong enough to act on behalf of the innocent victims, including children, who were killed in Syria by the chemical weapons. (coyoteblog.com)
  • In general, there are forms of affectionate behavior that are reseved for adults, children do not understand them, engaging in sexual behavior with a child is never acceptable. (teachthefacts.org)
  • We ask that you be respectful of others and their points of view, refrain from personal attacks and stay on topic. (campbellrivermirror.com)
  • With respect to emerging trends and issues, we observed this quote recently from security guru Bruce Schneier, ''I believe that smart phones are going to become the primary platform of attack for cybercriminals in the coming years. (auburn.edu)
  • For now, the only thing that stands in the way is a skewed sense of human dignity that sees no issue with slaughtering 4000 infants in the womb, but still gets up in arms over a guy who showers with children. (blogspot.com)
  • At the very worst, Sandusky might have been a citizen of modern Greece where pedophilia is deemed a disability, and its diagnosis qualifies one for a government pension. (blogspot.com)
  • Recent efforts to ramp up immigration enforcement in the interior of the United States and drastic changes in enforcement policies-such as making parents of U.S. citizen children priorities for deportation-have made families across the country increasingly vulnerable to being separated. (clasp.org)
  • Rumors spread about "Victim 1"'s identity, and Fisher is attacked at school by other students, but his psychologist tells Ganim that Fisher and his mother repeated his story to many skeptical people to protect other children. (wikipedia.org)
  • Her (now ex-) husband was in jail for domestic violence, and therefore wasn't working and earning any money to be sequestered by the child support mob, and so she couldn't make ends meet. (blogspot.com)
  • Â Sandusky is now being processed for incarceration at a local jail in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania and will most likely be placed under a 24-hour suicide watch. (thenewcivilrightsmovement.com)
  • So why are we surprised - having already stomped most of sexual decency into puritanical dust - that a man like Sandusky would help himself to the bodies of boys? (blogspot.com)
  • Â His son Matthew reported that he was sexually abused by his father after the trial was completed on Thursday. (thenewcivilrightsmovement.com)
  • In a 119-page opinion, the appeals panel struck down argument after argument that lawyers for Sandusky, 75, had made in seeking a new trial. (nbcnews.com)
  • Victims testified at his trial that Sandusky subjected them to a range of abuse, from grooming to violent sexual attacks. (nbcnews.com)
  • With Msgr. Lynn's trial around the corner, advocates needed people to understand the way institutions can cover up sex abuse. (catholics4change.com)
  • As a mother, nothing infuriates me more than to know that innocent children who needed protection at their most vulnerable time did not get it from a man they looked up to and admired. (peopleiwanttopunchinthethroat.com)
  • You don't, NOT EVER, get where you are going on the pain,suffering, and agony of innocent children. (peopleiwanttopunchinthethroat.com)
  • Some people think this is a normal way to raise a child, beating some sense into them now and then. (teachthefacts.org)
  • You and I don't have to agree with it, you see people all the time saying things to their kids that you would not say, you see parents on the Metro for instance, smacking their kids around and yelling at them, and it is something you have to tolerate up to a point. (teachthefacts.org)
  • Penn State has paid more than $100 million to settle claims from about three dozen people who alleged Sandusky had abused them, and made a host of changes to its policies and procedures. (nbcnews.com)
  • But some of those community leaders are the same people who are bent on legislatively legitimating the morally permissive culture which, at its fringes, unravels into the sexual exploitation of children which they claim to abhor! (blogspot.com)
  • We no longer have a sufficient number of people intelligent enough to execute a public office, rather than abuse it. (xperdunn.com)
  • It sickens me to the core of my soul that people in positions of power harm children so brazenly and without conscience. (blogspot.com)
  • The attorney general's office had sought to add a conspiracy charge related to the child-welfare accusation. (campbellrivermirror.com)
  • I blame anyone who puts profit over the welfare of the children they are entrusted with. (peopleiwanttopunchinthethroat.com)
  • Kathy and Susan… the guest on Radio Times this morning mentioned that Pennsylvania would benefit from the creation of an Ombudsman for Children's Safety/Welfare (can't remember exactly what he named it) to whom children and families could go when there was failure to follow up on reports of abuse. (catholics4change.com)