How Could You? Hall of Shame-Jerry Sandusky UPDATED

This will be an archive of heinous actions by those involved in child welfare, foster care and adoption. We forewarn you that these are deeply disturbing stories that may involve sex abuse, murder, kidnapping and other horrendous actions.

From State College, Pennsylvania, adoptive father of six, founder of The Second Mile organization for disadvantaged youth (and initially a foster home for troubled boys), 2002 Angel in Adoption and former famed defensive coordinator for Penn State University, Jerry Sandusky, 67, “surrendered to authorities Saturday morning to face child sex abuse charges recommended by a grand jury investigation that found evidence he molested eight boys he met through The Second Mile, the charity he started.

 

The grand jury investigation also resulted in charges, announced Saturday, against Penn State Athletic Director Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, the university’s interim senior vice president for finance and business.

 

The grand jury found evidence that Curley and Schultz lied during grand jury testimony in Dauphin County in January about information they received about a report of sexual abuse by Sandusky.

 

Curley and Schultz are charged with perjury, a felony, and failing to report abuse, a summary, and are expected to surrender to authorities at 2 p.m. Monday in Harrisburg.

 

The charges against Sandusky, 67, came after a two-year investigation by the state Attorney General’s Office into a 2009 report of a sexual assault of a Clinton County boy who was a guest at Sandusky’s College Township home. The grand jury found that Sandusky indecently fondled the boy, performed oral sex on the boy and had the boy perform oral sex on him.

 

The charges are: seven felony counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, one felony count of aggravated indecent assault, eight counts of unlawful contact with a minor and felony, eight counts of endangering the welfare of a child, eight counts of corruption of minors, seven counts of indecent assault and one count of attempted indecent assault.

 

In making public its investigation Saturday, the Attorney General’s Office asks anyone with information about other possible victims to call investigators at 863- 1053 or state police at 470- 2238.”

 

Penn State Scandal: SANDUSKY ARRESTED; CURLEY, SCHULTZ CHARGED

[Centre Daily 11/6/11 by Mike Dawson]

 

Sandusky is free on $100,000 bond and “Schultz, 62, retired and Curley, 57, requested administrative leave so that he could defend himself. They were both released on $75,000 bail. Their attorneys said they’ll challenge the charges and expect to have their clients vindicated.” Schultz and Curley have a hearing on November 17, 2011.

 

 

Penn State Cancels Coach Paterno’s Weekly News Conference [Bloomberg Business Week 11/8/11]

 

Ages and gender of his adoptive children , believed to be adopted from foster care, have not been disclosed at the time of this post. We will update this post with that information should we find it.

 

The 23-page Grand Jury report can be read here. Extremely graphic details are included.

 

NPR has a rundown of the main people involved in this case here. A timeline that they have put together from the grand jury report follows this quote:

 

” Tim Curley: The Penn State athletic director, 57, denies being told of sexual misconduct by Sandusky in 2002 but is accused of covering up allegations tied to the scandal. He was named athletic director on Dec. 30, 1993. Curley went on administrative leave the day before his Nov. 7 arraignment.

 

Gary Schultz: As the school’s senior vice president for finance and business — which gives him oversight of university police — Schultz, 62, has been charged with covering up abuse allegations. He served as Penn State’s senior vice president and treasurer from 1993 to 2009, when he retired. Schultz returned to the same job in 2011, on a temporary basis. In early 2010, the university named a campus child care center after Schultz, who retired again on Nov. 6.

 

Joe Paterno: “Joe Pa,” 84, has been an assistant or head coach at Penn State University since 1950. Coming under increasing pressure to resign in the wake of the scandal, he plans to retire at the end of the 2011 season. In a statement, Paterno said, “This is a tragedy. It is one of the great sorrows of my life. With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more.” Law enforcement officials say he is not a target in their investigation. Paterno has five children, all of whom attended Penn State.

 

Graham Spanier: Spanier, 63, became the university’s president in 1995, after serving at universities in Oregon, Nebraska, and New York. A faculty and staff member at Penn State from 1973 to 1982, Spanier’s academic background is in sociology and family counseling.

 

Mike McQueary: In 2002, the then-graduate assistant told Paterno that he had witnessed Sandusky abusing a boy in a Penn State locker room shower. Paterno informed Curley, who later met with the graduate assistant and Schultz. McQueary, who is now an assistant coach at Penn State, reiterated his statement to the grand jury.

 

Jim Calhoun: A temporary worker whose job as a janitor at Penn State lasted only eight months, Calhoun told co-workers and a supervisor in 2000 that he witnessed Sandusky engaging in sexual activity with a boy in a campus locker-room shower. Several staff members later said that Calhoun, a veteran of the Korean War, was visibly shaken by what he reported seeing. He now resides in an assisted living facility and reportedly has dementia.

 

Ray Gricar: Declared legally dead in July, Gricar was the Centre County district attorney from 1985 to 2005, when he disappeared. He chose not to prosecute Sandusky in 1998 after allegations of inappropriate contact with young boys surfaced. The decision helped to end a police investigation into the report.

 

Wendell Courtney: The former general counsel for Penn State University is also the longtime lawyer for Sandusky’s charity foundation, The Second Mile. He was working for both organizations when, according to Schultz, he reviewed the 1998 university police report about Sandusky’s behavior with boys.”

 

” 1977

 

Jerry Sandusky establishes The Second Mile in State College, Pa., “as a group foster home devoted to helping troubled boys,” according to the grand jury’s findings. The program evolves into a statewide charity whose honorary board members include Paterno and other sports figures.

 

1993

Tim Curley becomes Penn State’s athletic director. That same year, Gary Schultz is named the school’s treasurer and senior vice president.

 

1994

A boy identified as Victim 7 in the grand jury report meets Sandusky through the Second Mile program. Now 26, Victim 7 says that after a couple of years in the program, he often spent Friday nights at Sandusky’s house and attended football games with him the next day. He says Sandusky touched him in ways that made him uncomfortable, primarily during car rides and when the two showered after a workout.

 

1998

 

An 11-year-old boy returns home with wet hair after an outing with Sandusky. Victim 6 tells his mother he took a shower with Sandusky and that the coach hugged him several times. The boy’s mother contacts university police, triggering an investigation.

 

On May 13 and May 19, Det. Ronald Shreffler records the boy’s mother during a call with Sandusky. Court papers say Sandusky acknowledges that he showered with the boy, as well as with others. When the mother cuts off contact with Sandusky after a second call, he tells her, “I wish I were dead,” according to court papers.

 

On June 1, Jerry Lauro, an investigator from the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, takes part in an interview of Sandusky by Shreffler. According to the grand jury report, Sandusky admits to hugging the boy in the shower, and says he will not shower with children again.

 

Shreffler speaks to another boy who reports similar treatment to that reported by Victim 6. But the investigation ends after District Attorney Ray Gricar decides the case warrants no criminal charges. Shreffler tells the grand jury that Thomas Harmon, who headed the campus police, told him to close the inquiry.

 

1999

 

Sandusky retires from Penn State’s football program, but with an “emeritus” label that allows him continued access to campus facilities, including the locker room and an office in the Lasch Football Building. Schultz has testified that the timing of Sandusky’s retirement was not related to the university police investigation a year earlier.

 

2000

 

Jim Calhoun, a janitor at the Lasch building, tells a co-worker and his supervisor that he saw Sandusky engaged in sexual activity with a boy in the assistant coaches’ shower. The boy, referred to as Victim 8 in court papers, has never been identified.

 

Calhoun’s colleague Ronald Petrosky, who reported seeing Sandusky’s car in the parking lot later that night in the fall of 2000, says that members of the janitorial staff were concerned that they might lose their jobs if they spoke out about what had happened.

 

After Calhoun told his supervisor, Jay Witherite, what he had seen, Witherite told him whom he could report the incident to, if he chose to do so.

 

2002

 

A graduate assistant reports seeing Sandusky sexually assaulting a boy in the showers at Lasch Football Building on the Penn State campus, around 9:30 p.m. on Friday, March 1. The assault on the boy, who Kelly said “appeared to be about 10 years old,” is reported to Paterno the next day. Paterno, in turn, passes the information to Curley one day later.

 

The graduate assistant, who has since been identified as current Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary, meets with Curley and Schultz, but not Paterno, some 10 days later. According to McQueary, he told them that he had seen Sandusky having sex with a boy in the showers. No report is made to police or to any child protection agency — a breach of state law, prosecutors say.

 

Two weeks later, Curley tells McQueary that Sandusky’s keys to the locker room have been taken away and that the incident was reported to The Second Mile charity.

 

Sandusky is banned from bringing children onto the Penn State campus in a decision reviewed and approved by Spanier, the university president.

 

2009

 

The mother of the boy identified by court papers as Victim 1 calls a high school in Clinton County to report that her son was sexually abused by Sandusky. The school district bans Sandusky from any of its campuses, and the police are notified.

 

2010

 

In December, the graduate assistant who had reported the 2002 assault testifies before a grand jury investigating Sandusky, detailing what he saw and what he told Paterno, Schultz and Curley.

 

And in 2010 or 2011, Victim 7 tells the grand jury that prior to his testimony, he received voice mails from Sandusky, his wife and a friend of Sandusky’s. Victim 7 says he did not return any of the calls.

 

2011

 

In his Jan. 12 grand jury testimony, Curley says the graduate assistant reported only “inappropriate,” not “sexual” conduct, calling the conduct “horsing around.”

 

Also testifying on Jan. 12, Schultz says he met with Curley and Paterno about the abuse allegations. But he tells the grand jury that he was unsure about the details of what had happened and that he thought Sandusky and the boy might have been wrestling when the inappropriate contact occurred.

 

Saturday, Nov. 5: The investigation into Sandusky, Curley and Schultz becomes public, with prosecutors accusing the former assistant coach of making inappropriate sexual advances or assaults on eight boys, from 1994 to 2009.

 

Sunday, Nov. 6: Curley and Schultz vacate their university posts following an emergency meeting with school officials.

 

Monday, Nov. 7: Curley and Schultz are arraigned on charges of making false statements to the grand jury and failing to report the possible abuse of a child.

 

Wednesday, Nov. 9: Paterno, coming under increasing criticism and pressure to resign in the wake of the Sandusky scandal, announces that he will retire at the end of the 2011 season, when his three-year contract expires. In a statement, Paterno said, “This is a tragedy. It is one of the great sorrows of my life. With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more.”

 

Penn State’s Two Announcements

 

” Trustees announce 2 officials to step down while case is investigated

Monday, November 7, 2011

 

Both men have been charged with failure to report and perjury. Both deny any wrongdoing.

 

Sandusky retired from the University in 1999.

 

Spanier said that Senior Associate Athletic Director Mark Sherburne will serve as interim athletic director until Curley’s legal situation is resolved.

 

Garban announced the following steps:

 

2. Publicize the findings of the independent review;

 

4. Enhance educational programming around such topics.

 

Statement by The Pennsylvania State University Board of Trustees

 

 

At its regular meeting on Friday, November 11, 2011, the Board will appoint a Special Committee, members of which are currently being identified, to undertake a full and complete investigation of the circumstances that gave rise to the Grand Jury Report. This Special Committee will be commissioned to determine what failures occurred, who is responsible and what measures are necessary to insure that this never happens at our University again and that those responsible are held fully accountable. The Special Committee will have whatever resources are necessary to thoroughly fulfill its charge, including independent counsel and investigative teams, and there will be no restrictions placed on its scope or activities. Upon the completion of this investigation, a complete report will be presented at a future public session of the Board of Trustees.

 

Department of Education Investigation

“The U.S. Department of Education is launching an investigation into the scandal at Penn State University to see if officials there failed to comply with a law that requires institutions of higher education to disclose criminal offenses that occur on campus each year.

 

The department issued a statement on Wednesday saying that it was launching the probe in relation to the scandal in which former defensive coach Jerry Sandusky was charged with sexually abusing a number of young boys over a period of years, including incidents on campus. A number of school officials were told about at least one of the incidents after they happened by the police were never called. Legendary Penn State Coach Joe Paternoannounced he is retiringat the end of the season as a result of the scandal.

 

Education Secretary Arne Duncan was quoted in the statement as saying: “If these allegations of sexual abuse are true then this is a horrible tragedy for those young boys. If it turns out that some people at the school knew of the abuse and did nothing or covered it up, that makes it even worse. Schools and school officials have a legal and moral responsibility to protect children and young people from violence and abuse.”

 

The law under which the department’s probe will be launched is the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, also known as the Clery Act.

 

It was named in memory of a freshman named Jeanne Ann Clery who was raped and murdered while sleeping in her dormitory at Pennsylvania’s Lehigh University in 1986. The school did not inform the campus community about nearly 40 violent crimes that had taken place on campus in the few years before her murder.

 

The Clery Act not only requires colleges and universities to disclose reported crimes but also requires schools in some cases to issue a warning to the campus community if a crime constitutes a threat to the campus.

 

Because the Clery Act is connected to participation in federal student financial aid programs, investigators in the department’s Office of Federal Student Aid will conduct the investigation, and the Office for Civil Rights will assess whether other action is required, the statement said.

 

The Education Department can impose fines against schools that violate the act — up $27,500 per violation — and may suspend them from participating in federal student financial aid programs. ”

Education Department investigating Penn State

[Washington Post 11/9/11 by Valerie Strauss]

 

So, the students who need financial aid could get punished?!?!

 

ALL people who knew about this and did nothing are PIGS! WHERE IS THE CONCERN FOR THE VICTIMS THEN AND NOW? There will likely be more victims coming forward. The latest rumor is 20.

 

Second Mile Knew of Issues with Sandusky in 1998

 

They “knew as early as 1998 that Mr. Sandusky was under investigation for similar sexual misconduct in a Penn State shower involving a different boy from the program, according to a presentment by a statewide investigating grand jury.”

 

“State College attorney Wendell V. Courtney was apprised of the investigation in 1998 because he was then-counsel for Penn State and for The Second Mile, a position he still holds. He was unavailable for comment Monday.

 

That investigation, by University Police, was closed when the Centre County district attorney’s office decided not to file charges.

 

The Second Mile learned of another investigation involving Mr. Sandusky in 2002. In its statement, the agency said its chief executive officer, Jack Raykovitz, testified at the investigating grand jury that he had been told by Penn State athletic director Tim Curley that an internal investigation had found no corroboration for an allegation of inappropriate contact by Mr. Sandusky with a youth in a university locker room.

 

Despite those two allegations, it wasn’t until November 2008 that the program took steps to keep Mr. Sandusky away from children. It was then, according to the organization’s statement, that “Mr. Sandusky informed The Second Mile that he had learned he was being investigated as a result of allegations made against him by an adolescent male in Clinton County, Pa. Although he maintained there was no truth to the claims, we are an organization committed first and foremost to the safety and well-being of the children we serve.”

 

“Mr. Sandusky, who retired from coaching in 1999, was still affiliated with The Second Mile until he retired from there in September 2010.”

Sandusky charity for youths had inklings of trouble in ‘98

[The Inquirer 11/8/11 by Michael A. Fuoco, Jon Schmitz and Bill Toland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]

 

Curious Case of DA Ray Gricar’s Disappearance

 

From Questions on Sandusky Are Wrapped in a 2005 Mystery[New York Times 11/8/11 by Ken Belson] “Gricar went missing in April 2005. The murky circumstances surrounding his disappearance — an abandoned car, a laptop recovered months later in a river without a hard drive, his body was never found — have spawned Web sites, television programs and conspiracy theories. More than six years later, the police still receive tips and reports of sightings. The police in central Pennsylvania continue to investigate even though Gricar’s daughter, Lara, successfully petitioned in July to have her father declared legally dead so the family could find some closure and begin dividing his estate.

 

Yet as the Sandusky investigation moves forward, questions will be asked anew about why Gricar did not pursue charges against him 13 years ago. A small but strident minority believes Gricar did not want to tackle a case that involved a hometown icon. Others who knew and worked with Gricar say he was a meticulous, independent and tough-minded prosecutor who was unbowed by Penn State, its football program and political pressure in general.

 

“No one got a bye with Ray,” said Anthony De Boef, who worked as an assistant district attorney under Gricar for five years. “He didn’t care who you were; he had a job to do.”

 

De Boef said Gricar did not share any information with him about the case in 1998, which involved Sandusky allegedly showering with an 11-year-old boy. Gricar, he said, reviewed the police reports in private including, presumably, notes or recordings of two conversations that the police heard between Sandusky and the boy’s mother. But Gricar had a reputation for thoroughness, and if he thought he had enough to charge Sandusky, he would have, De Boef and other lawyers said.

 

Still, the circumstances surrounding Gricar’s disappearance prompt many questions.

 

On April 15, 2005, Gricar, then 59, took the day off. At about 11:30 a.m., he called his girlfriend, Patricia Fornicola, to say he was taking a drive on Route 192. About 12 hours later, she reported him missing.

 

The next day, Gricar’s Mini Cooper was found in a parking lot in Lewisburg, about 50 miles from his home in Bellefonte. Gricar’s cellphone was in the car, but not his laptop, wallet or keys, which were never recovered. Months later, the laptop was found in the Susquehanna River without its hard drive, which was discovered later. It was too damaged to yield any information. On the fourth anniversary of his disappearance, investigators revealed that a search of his home computer yielded a history of Internet searches for phrases like “how to wreck a hard drive,” according to a report at the time in The Centre Daily Times.

 

When Gricar disappeared helicopters, dive teams and patrol cars were deployed, and the F.B.I. was brought in. Reports of Gricar turning up in Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Maryland and other states proved to be dead ends.

 

So what happened? Friends and colleagues say Gricar was not the type to walk away. His bank accounts were not touched after he disappeared, he had no other sources of income and he had no major debts, said Robert Buehner Jr., a friend and the district attorney in Montour County. Though divorced twice, he seemed happy with his girlfriend and close with his daughter. Gricar had already announced that he was retiring at the end of his term.

 

“He was absolutely looking forward to his future,” Buehner said.

 

If Gricar committed suicide, Buehner added, he would have wanted the body to be found. Foul play is the next possible conclusion. By the nature of their jobs prosecuting criminals, district attorneys end up having many enemies. But no credible suspects have emerged.

 

“I don’t think you’ll find too many district attorneys who disappear,” said Ken Mains, a detective who works on cold cases in Lycoming County. “D. B. Cooper, Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Hoffa, until a body is found, there are going to be conspiracy theories.”

 

During the publishing of this post, The Board of Trustees Fired Joe Paterno and President Graham Spanier effective immediately. Joe tried to write his own exit, but he will receive no more glory.

 

“The Board of Trustees emerged from a late Wednesday emergency meeting and announced at a 10 p.m. press conference that two of the last three men standing in the sex allegations scandal that has torn the campus asunder are finished.

 

The Board of Trustees emerged from a late Wednesday emergency meeting and announced at a 10 p.m. press conference that two of the last three men standing in the sex allegations scandal that has torn the campus asunder are finished.”

 

For the love of God, why is that Mike McQueary Still Employed by Penn State! He walked in on Sandusky and the 10-year-old boy and DID NOT REPORT IT! Let’s hope he is next.

Joe Paterno fired, Penn State president Spanier out

[Sporting News 11/9/11 by Rana L Cash]

 

Update: A more detailed timeline

“1969 – Jerry Sandusky starts his coaching career at Penn State University as a defensive line coach.

 

1977 – Jerry Sandusky founds The Second Mile. It begins as a group foster home dedicated to helping troubled boys and grows into a charity dedicated to helping children with absent or dysfunctional families.

 

January 1983 – Associated Press voters select Penn State as college football’s national champion for the 1982 season.

 

January 1987 – Associated Press voters select Penn State as college football’s national champion for the 1986 season.

 

1994 – Boy known as Victim 7 in the report meets Sandusky through The Second Mile program at about the age of 10.

 

1994-95 – Boy known as Victim 6 meets Sandusky at a Second Mile picnic at Spring Creek Park when he is 7 or 8 years old.

 

1995-96 – Boy known as Victim 5, meets Sandusky through The Second Mile when he is 7 or 8, in second or third grade.

 

1996-97 – Boy known as Victim 4, at the age of 12 or 13, meets Sandusky while he is in his second year participating in The Second Mile program.

 

1996-98 – Victim 5 is taken to the locker rooms and showers at Penn State by Sandusky when he is 8 to 10 years old.

 

Jan. 1, 1998 – Victim 4 is listed, along with Sandusky’s wife, as a member of Sandusky’s family party for the 1998 Outback Bowl.

 

1998 – Victim 6 is taken into the locker rooms and showers when he is 11 years old. When Victim 6 is dropped off at home, his hair is wet from showering with Sandusky. His mother reports the incident to the university police, who investigate.

 

Detective Ronald Schreffler testifies that he and State College Police Department Detective Ralph Ralston, with the consent of the mother of Victim 6, eavesdrop on two conversations the mother of Victim 6 has with Sandusky. Sandusky says he has showered with other boys and Victim 6’s mother tries to make Sandusky promise never to shower with a boy again but he will not. At the end of the second conversation, after Sandusky is told he cannot see Victim 6 anymore, Schreffler testifies Sandusky says, “I understand. I was wrong. I wish I could get forgiveness. I know I won’t get it from you. I wish I were dead.”

 

Jerry Lauro, an investigator with the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, testifies he and Schreffler interviewed Sandusky, and that Sandusky admits showering naked with Victim 6, admits to hugging Victim 6 while in the shower and admits that it was wrong.

 

The case is closed after then-Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar decides there will be no criminal charge.

 

June 1999 – Sandusky retires from Penn State but still holds emeritus status.

 

Dec. 28, 1999 – Victim 4 is listed, along with Sandusky’s wife, as a member of Sandusky’s family party for the 1999 Alamo Bowl.

 

Summer 2000 – Boy known as Victim 3 meets Sandusky through The Second Mile when he is between seventh and eighth grade.

 

Fall 2000 – A janitor named James Calhoun observes Sandusky in the showers of the Lasch Football Building with a young boy, known as Victim 8, pinned up against the wall, performing oral sex on the boy. He tells other janitorial staff immediately. Fellow Office of Physical Plant employee Ronald Petrosky cleans the showers at Lasch and sees Sandusky and the boy, who he describes as being between the ages of 11 and 13.

 

Calhoun tells other physical plant employees what he saw, including Jay Witherite, his immediate supervisor. Witherite tells him to whom he should report the incident. Calhoun was a temporary employee and never makes a report. Victim 8’s identity is unknown.

 

March 1, 2002 – A Penn State graduate assistant [Mike McQueary, still employed by Penn State] enters the locker room at the Lasch Football Building. In the showers, he sees a naked boy, known as Victim 2, whose age he estimates to be 10 years old, being subjected to anal intercourse by a naked Sandusky. The graduate assistant tells his father immediately.

 

March 2, 2002 – In the morning, the graduate assistant calls Coach Joe Paterno and goes to Paterno’s home, where he reports what he has seen.

 

March 3, 2002 – Paterno calls Tim Curley, Penn State Athletic Director to his home the next day and reports a version of what the grad assistant had said.

 

March 2002 – Later in the month the graduate assistant is called to a meeting with Curley and Senior Vice President for Finance and Business Gary Schultz. The grad assistant reports what he has seen and Curley and Schultz say they will look into it.

 

March 27, 2002 (approximate) – The graduate assistant hears from Curley. He is told that Sandusky’s locker room keys are taken away and that the incident has been reported to The Second Mile. The graduate assistant is never questioned by university police and no other entity conducts an investigation until the graduate assistant testifies in Grand Jury in December 2010.

 

2005-2006 – Boy known as Victim 1 says that meets Sandusky through The Second Mile at age 11 or 12.

 

Spring 2007 – During the 2007 track season, Sandusky begins spending time with Victim 1 weekly, having him stay overnight at his residence in College Township, Pa.

 

Spring 2008 – Termination of contact with Victim 1 occurs when he is a freshman in a Clinton County high school. After the boy’s mother calls the school to report sexual assault, Sandusky is barred from the school district attended by Victim 1 from that day forward and the matter is reported to authorities as mandated by law.

 

Early 2009 – An investigation by the Pennsylvania attorney general begins when a Clinton County, Pa. teen boy tells authorities that Sandusky has inappropriately touched him several times over a four-year period.

 

September 2010 – Sandusky retires from day-to-day involvement with The Second Mile, saying he wants to spend more time with family and handle personal matters.

 

Nov. 5, 2011 – Sandusky is arrested and released on $100,000 bail after being arraigned on 40 criminal counts.

 

Nov. 7, 2011 – Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly says Paterno is not a target of the investigation into how the school handled the accusations. But she refuses to say the same for university President Graham Spanier. Curley and Schultz, who have stepped down from their positions, surrender on charges that they failed to alert police to complaints against Sandusky.

 

Nov. 8, 2011 – Possible ninth victim of Sandusky contacts state police as calls for ouster of Paterno and Spanier grow in state and beyond. Penn State abruptly cancels Paterno’s regular weekly press conference.

 

Nov. 9, 2011 – Paterno and Spanier, one of the nation’s longest-serving college presidents, are ousted, effective immediately. Earlier in the day, Paterno announced he’d retire at the end of the season. In the end, he didn’t have that choice.”

 

Penn State Scandal Timeline: Key Dates In The Jerry Sandusky Sex Abuse Case

[Huffington Post 11/9/11]

 

The Stir 11/9/11 by Jeanne Sager brings up questions that no large media have touched. “Of all the questions surrounding the sex abuse case at Penn State, there’s one that I keep coming back to. Why didn’t child protective services spot the pedophile allegedly lurking inside former coach Jerry Sandusky years ago? Isn’t that their job?

After all, while Sandusky was allegedly abusing young football players, he and wife Dottie Sandusky were adopting and fostering kids left and right. The system was trusting a man who seems to be a very bad dude. And why not? He wasn’t just a coach at The Second Mile; he’d founded the charity to help at-risk kids by introducing them to football. On the surface it screamed “this guy is good for kids.”

 

But when people are allowed to take the fragile kids of the foster system into their homes, what’s on the surface isn’t enough. These kids have already suffered the indignity of being removed from their homes, and the person entrusted with their care has to be above reproach. In a country riddled with CPS cases that make the people at these protective agencies look overworked at best, like complete buffoons at worst, the allegations that Sandusky was abusing young boys may rank up there as one of their classic failures.

 

How did a guy like Jerry Sandusky adopt six kids? How did he become a foster father to many more?…Even if he didn’t hurt his own kids (and trust me, I’m hoping for their sakes that he did not!), the fact is those children were sent into the home of a man who obviously was not properly vetted by the system.”

 

According to Trustees: Penn State president removed, Paterno out immediately

[CNN 11/9/11] “Meanwhile, a tip line has been receiving calls from alleged victims of Sandusky, a source close to the investigation said, and police were attempting to verify the claims.”

 

According to Report: Penn State’s Paterno facing possible civil suit, criminal charges [All Headline News 11/9/11 by John Nestor] “Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly stated that her office won’t file charges against Paterno for not reporting the alleged child sexual abuse by former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. However, the 84-year-old coach could eventually face criminal charges.

 

According to a story on SI.com, Paterno could be brought up on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and violating the state’s Child Protective Services Law. The reports said that Paterno could also become a defendant in civil lawsuits filed by Sandusky’s alleged victims.

 

The lawsuits could allege that Paterno negligently failed to prevent a third party with whom he had a supervisory relationship (Sandusky) from committing abuse, according to the SI.com story.”

 

Possible Larger Scandal Involving “pimping out children with his Second Mile foundation to rich Penn State donors”?

 

Two articles tonight are reporting that two prominent reporters are running down the leads on this allegation.

 

The first article is Penn State Scandal: New Allegations Against Jerry Sandusky [International Business Times 11/10/11 by John Talty]

 

“Mark Madden, a columnist for the Beaver County Times, told a Boston radio station that Sandusky might have been pimping out children with his Second Mile foundation to rich Penn State donors. Madden, who first wrote about the Sandusky scandal in April, told the Dennis and Callahan show that two prominent columnists were currently investigating the claim.

 

Madden first wrote in April — long before the story became a worldwide headline — that Penn State higher-ups, including Joe Paterno, needed to explain the circumstances surrounding Sandusky’s abrupt retirement in 1999.

 

His latest allegations were labeled as rumors on the show, but other prominent journalists have backed up his claims to an extent. CBS Sports’ Gregg Doyel tweeted on Thursday that the latest rumor was on the state attorney general’s radar, while SportsbyBrooks tweeted on Wednesday night that a new, major allegation against Sandusky would “horrify the public.”

 

The second article Jerry Sandusky Rumored to Have Been ‘Pimping Out Young Boys to Rich Donors,’ Says Mark Madden [NESN 11/10/11 by Michael Hurley]

 

“In April, Pittsburgh radio host Mark Madden wrote a story revealing Penn State for much of the cover-up of Jerry Sandusky‘s alleged child rape that has been exposed in the past week. While it didn’t raise many eyebrows back then, six months later it looks to be incredibly accurate.

 

On Thursday morning, just hours after legendary head coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier were fired by the school’s board of trustees, Madden was asked on WEEI’s The Dennis and Callahan Show what he believes the next piece of news will be.

 

What he said was twice as shocking as anything that’s been released thus far.

 

“I can give you a rumor and I can give you something I think might happen,” Madden told John Dennis and Gerry Callahan. “I hear there’s a rumor that there will be a more shocking development from the Second Mile Foundation — and hold on to your stomachs, boys, this is gross, I will use the only language I can — that Jerry Sandusky and Second Mile were pimping out young boys to rich donors. That was being investigated by two prominent columnists even as I speak.”

 

After the news spread, Madden later explained via Twitter why he went public with the rumors.

“I normally abhor giving RUMORS credence,” Madden wrote. “But whole Sandusky scandal started out as a RUMOR. It gets deeper and more disgusting all the time. One of state’s top columnists investigating. That adds credence. I am NOT rumor’s original source. [Why does] Sandusky deserve benefit of doubt?”

 

Madden also spoke more definitively on Dennis and Callahan to the cover-up efforts at the school and beyond that he expects will be made public soon.

 

“The other thing I think that may eventually become uncovered, and I talked about this in my original article back in April, is that I think they’ll find out that Jerry Sandusky was told that he had to retire in exchange for a cover-up,” Madden said. “If you look at the timeline, that makes perfect sense, doesn’t it?

 

“My opinion is when Sandusky quit, everybody knew — not just at Penn State,” Madden added. “I think it was a very poorly kept secret about college football in general, and that is why he never coached in college football again and retired at the relatively young age of 55. [That’s] young for a coach, certainly.”

 

Update 2: November 11 new information

 

(1) Former Penn State Coach Reportedly Faces 460 Years in Jail [Fox News 11/10/11]

He “faces 460 years in jail if convicted of all charges…Sandusky’s top charges include six felonies for deviate sexual intercourse, which could potentially carry a 240-year sentence, the report said. Sandusky also faces four counts of Unlawful Contact with a Minor, with each count carrying a maximum sentence of 20 years, the report said.

 

In all, Sandusky faces 375 years in maximum sentences on 20 felony charges and the potential remaining time would be from misdemeanors, the report said.”

 

(2) Though many students were rioting Wednesday evening, some students arranged a vigil for Firday November 11 evening and will raise money for the victims according to Washington Post.

 

(3)The sister of the 2002 victim goes to Penn State and spoke about how difficult it is for her to go to class because students are joking about the charges, according to Penn Live.

 

(4)Amazon users have been leaving righteous comments on Sandusky’s book page even though they do not stock the book. His memoir is ironically, sickly entitled Touched: The Story of Jerry Sandusky, according to Jerry Sandusky Memoir Attacked on Amazon [Media Bistro 11/10/11] There are other reports that the Penn State bookstore still has some copies of this book on the shelf

 

(5)A Patriot-News Special Report: Who knew what about Jerry Sandusky? There were many missed chances to investigate as early as 1995 [Patriot News 11/11/11 by Sara Ganim] identifies one of his adopted children. His name is Mike and he was adopted from foster care as a teenager. “”Children and Youth Services placed him with the Sandusky family at Jerry Sandusky’s request.”

 

“Debra Long was allowed to visit her son only one-half day per month after he went to live with the Sanduskys.

 

About four months after he went to live with Jerry, Matt attempted suicide with a girl who was also staying at Sandusky’s house.

 

“The probation department has some serious concerns about the juvenile’s safety and his current progress in placement with the Sandusky family,” wrote Terry L. Trude, a school-based probation officer, days after the suicide attempt.

 

The letter, addressed to Centre County Judge David Grine, also said Long was concerned about Matt’s safety and mental condition, and asked that Matt go to a different foster family.

 

Trude finally recommended that Matt’s placement in the Sandusky house be reviewed within two months.

 

The night of the suicide attempt, Matt wrote a letter to the probation officer dealing with his case.

 

It read, in part: “I would like to be placed back with the Sanduskys. I feel that they have supported me even when I have messed up. They are a loving caring group of people. I love both my biological family and the Sandusky family.”

 

“The day Jerry Sandusky was arrested, Matt brought his kids over to Jerry’s house. The mother of Matt’s children almost immediately went to court to prevent future visits. A judge’s order now prevents Sandusky from having unsupervised contact or overnight visits with his grandchildren.”

 

(6)Victim 1’s mother speaks on Good Morning America on November 11, 2011 Penn State Scandal: Mother of Alleged Victim Says Son Was Afraid to Tell Sandusky ‘No’ by Kevin Dolak “”I had said, ‘You know, maybe we should have come to this conclusion earlier — you should have told me,'” the mother, whose name is being withheld, said she told her son. “He was like, ‘Well, I didn’t know what to do … you just can’t tell Jerry no.'”

 

Sandusky, now 67, would often have the boy stay at his home after they met when he was 11 in 2005 through the Second Mile program, which the coach founded for at-risk youth. According to the grand jury investigation, Sandusky “indecently fondled Victim 1 on a number of occasions, performed oral sex on Victim 1 on a number of occasions and had Victim 1 perform oral sex on him on at least one occasion.”

 

In the interview, the boy’s mother discusses how she gradually became aware of the abuse her son was suffering at Sandusky’s hands. Her boy would act out violently to intentionally become grounded and avoid seeing Sandusky, she says, and at one point he came to her saying he wanted to know how to look up information on sex offenders.

 

“[I] proceeded to ask him if there was something he needed to tell me, if there was something going on … it wasn’t ’til a month later when he indicated he was uncomfortable with leaving the school with him, and [Sandusky] pulling him out of classes at school,” she said.

 

According to the grand jury presentment that led to Sandusky’s arrest last week on 40 counts of molesting eight boys over a 15-year period, the coach had unfettered access to the Clinton County high school attended by Victim 1. Sandusky, who volunteered at the school’s varsity football program, would often have unmonitored meetings with the boy. On one occasion a school wrestling coach witnessed inappropriate touching between the two in a secluded weight room, according to the grand jury presentment.

 

Though she was unable to get any direct answers from her son by prodding him about Sandusky’s behavior, the boy’s mother expressed her concerns to the school, who in turn spoke with the boy. She was quickly called to the school where she learned more about the situation.

 

“I’m infuriated … Even if they had the slightest inclination that anything inappropriate was going on it should have been reported, or at least brought to my attention,” she said. “I didn’t even know he was leaving the school with my child, taking him out of classes. They never told me that.”

 

The school’s assistant principal told the grand jury that Sandusky was barred from the school district as soon as the mother had expressed concern about the coach’s relationship with her son.”

 

(7) Texas police are looking into allegations that some child sex abuse went on during the Alamo Bowl according to CBS Houston. KZEP reports “Jerry Sandusky is accused of taking “Victim 4” to the 1999 Alamo Bowl. That accuser, now 27, testified he was listed as a member of the Sandusky family party for the 1999 Alamo Bowl.

 

When the boy resisted his advances, Sandusky threatened to send him home from the Alamo Bowl, the report said.

 

Bexar County First Assistant District Attorney Cliff Herberg tells 1200 WOAI news, any investigation would be an uphill climb.

 

“All we have is an allegation contained in a an indictment from another jurisdiction. We have no evidence, no complainant yet,” he told reporter Michael Board. “It’s a preliminary inquiry.”

 

He says their office will have to determine the quality of the evidence, given that it’s from 1999.

 

“Obviously, in something like this, when (District Attorney Susan) Reed heard about it, she and the police chief were very concerned about it. We are going to taking what action we can to see if a case can be built.”

(8) MSNBC reports that Joe Paterno has contacted a criminal lawyer.

 

(9) Though Mike McQueary was slated to coach the football game on Saturday November 12 and it was reported that he was not going to be able to be on the sidelines due to “multiple threats” against him. It was announced today that he is on paid administrative leave and that he is in protective custody, according to The Patriot News and MSNBC. Also it is clarified that the reason he has not been fired is due to legal protections of being a whistleblower, although he has to be the most pathetic whistleblower in history. I am sure they are debating whether his “report” was a “good faith effort.”

 

“According to the Patriot-News, McQueary took part in a type of conference call Friday that included his replacement as wide receivers coach, Kermit Buggs, as well as the players he had been charged with coaching. During what was described by the paper as an emotional conversation, McQueary revealed to the group that he is “not your coach anymore. I’m done.”

 

That would seem to indicate that McQueary will not coach another game this season, something the school has yet to officially announce due in part to concerns over violating Pennsylvania’s whistleblower statute.

 

McQueary also revealed he’s in protective custody, and that he’s taking the liquid approach to the situation.

When players asked, “Coach, where are you? Can we see you?” McQueary responded, “No, I’m actually in protective custody. I’m not in State College.”

McQueary added that he was, “Double-fisting it,” meaning he was having two drinks at once.”

He gets afor the poor choice of words “double-fisting it.”

 

Update 3: New Information from November 11 to November 13

 

(1) Merck CEO will head up PSU investigation and large crowd at vigil . From Philadelphia Inquirer November 11 Penn State: Vigil draws 10,000; Frazier to lead probe By Jeff Gammage and Amy Worden, “Kenneth Frazier, president and chief executive officer of Merck & Co., was appointed Friday to lead an investigation into how Pennsylvania State University officials handled reports of possible sexual abuse of children by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

 

Frazier, a member of the university’s board of trustees, will lead the investigation for the trustees, whose governing board promised to conduct an impartial, open, and in-depth inquiry and to release the full findings to the public.”

 

“He will be assisted by board member Ron Tomalis, the state secretary of education. Their committee will be composed largely of board members, along with members of the university community and an outside legal counsel.”

 

Prayers and Vigils

 

“About 10,000 people gathered Friday night outside Penn State’s Old Main building for a candlelight vigil to support the sex-abuse victims. Speakers included former Penn State linebacker LaVar Arrington and the university’s student body president, T.J. Bard.

 

“May we never forget the victims, and may we fight until no child is harmed again,” Bard said.

After the Old Main bells struck 10 p.m., a moment of silence was observed, leading into the Blue Band playing the alma mater. At the end of the vigil, the crowd took part in a “We are Penn State” cheer.”

 

The Nebraska-PSU football game began on November 12 with both teams in prayer.

 

(2)Sandusky’s Wife

 

Cynthia Dermody blogged on The Stir on November 8 on this subject at How Could Jerry Sandusky’s Wife Not Have Known? ” I can only imagine she is as horrified and shocked as the rest of the world, as most any wife would be. But I also wonder if she is now looking back on the past 15 years and questioning how she couldn’t have seen the clues more clearly. We know very little about Dottie Sandusky or the couple’s relationship. Yet if you read the grand jury’s indictment (not recommended for those with weak stomachs), it’s hard to believe that she or one of their six adopted kids or anyone else close to the family didn’t suspect something was off with this guy if everything they say about him is true.

 

 

Much of Sandusky’s grooming (and some of the assaults) of his victims ages 8 to 15 occurred in Sandusky’s own home, at family events, or at times and in ways that you’d think any observant family member — or even anyone associated with him — would have surely stopped herself to think, “Hmm, isn’t that behavior a little strange?”

 

This is not a judgement of Dottie Sandusky or her family. Who knows what their relationship is like, what was going on in that house, or the depth of Sandusky’s attempts to conceal his true intentions with those boys. But hearing the details of this story, I can’t help but consider how I myself would have acted if Sandusky had been my husband. I’d like to think I would have seen the writing on the wall somewhere along the line.”

 

She lays out the clues from the indictment that include multiple boys staying overnight in the basement, victims sharing accomodations on out-of-town golf outings, racking up 61 cell phone calls to one victim and generally hanging around these boys very often.

 

Laurie Whitwell delves into a key part of the Grand Jury report about Dottie making calls to one of the victims before he testified in November 13 Daily Mail Why did Jerry Sandusky’s wife call abuse victim weeks before his testimony and how much did Dorothy and six adopted children know about Penn State ‘paedophile’? ” The six adopted children are revealed to be 5 boys and 1 girl.

 

“Mrs Sandusky, 68, attempted to call one of the victims in the weeks leading up to his testimony, despite the fact the now 26-year-old had cut off all contact with Sandusky two years prior.

 

She left a message on Victim 7’s phone saying the matter was ‘very important’ but the man, who told the Grand Jury that as a ten-year-old in 1994, Sandusky hugged and inappropriately touched him, did not return the call.

 

Part of that alleged abuse took place in the Sandusky family’s State College, Pennsylvania, home, in which Dorothy and her husband raised their six adopted children. Sandusky claimed he and his wife could not have any of their own.

 

Over the years the couple became the parents to Ray, now 46, a businessman living in Nashville, EJ, 41, former Nittany Lions player, and now a football coach at West Chester University, Kara, 38, a Penn State graduate, Jeff, 35, a former Marine, and 33-year-olds Matt, a Penn State graduate and Jon, who is Director of Player Personnel for the Cleveland Browns.”

 

“The Grand Jury indictment states that Sandusky selected his young victims from the ‘Second Mile’, a charity he started in 1977 devoted to helping troubled boys in the State College area. Mrs Sandusky helped out with the running of the programme.

 

‘After we had taken in some foster children, we saw the opportunities that some kids just hadn’t had,’ Mrs Sandusky told Sports Illustrated in 1982. ‘But we’d gotten to the point where we couldn’t take in anymore, so Jerry started thinking about starting a group home.’

 

In his 2000 autobiography, ‘Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story’ the onetime heir apparent to Joe Paterno devotes many pages to his relationships with boys he met through the Second Mile.

 

He also makes reference to his own children during an exchange with some of the boys from the charity.

 

Sandusky wrote that one night he was talking to two Second Mile boys who had rebelled against their foster parents, with one boy telling how his foster father had ‘grabbed me around the back of my shoulders and he made me do something when I didn’t want to do it.’

‘Do you ever grab your kids like that?’ the boy asked Sandusky.

 

‘No, I don’t grab my kids like that,’ Sandusky answered. ‘I grab them like this.’ He wrote: ‘With that, I put my hands gently around their throat.’ It was an apparent jest.”

 

“The book repeatedly described Sandusky hugging boys and detailing how he was very close to those he met through the charity. Of the photos that line his office walls, he said: ‘They are kids that have touched my life and have been a part of me for a long, long time.’

 

In the book he paints himself as someone who would repeatedly take risks in the hunt for what he refers to as ‘mischief.’

 

‘I believe I live a good part of my life in a make-believe world,’ Sandusky wrote in one of the final chapters. ‘I enjoyed pretending as a kid, and I love doing the same as an adult with these kids.'”

 

(3)Jerry’s adopted son, Jon, “spent 2001 through 2009 with the Eagles, first as a coaching intern and then from 2002 through 2008 as a scout and then in 2008 and 2009 as director of pro personnel.

 

His father, Jerry, was arrested last week and charged with 40 counts of sexual abuse of young boys during and after he served on Joe Paterno’s coaching staff.

 

Reid didn’t say how often Sandusky visited the Eagles during the years his son worked in Philaelphia.

 

Asked if he recalled the elder Sandusky bringing children with him to Eagles practice, Reid said no.”

 

“Sandusky played high school football at State College High School, where he was a teammate of Mike McQueary, the Penn State assistant coach who testified before a grand jury that eventually filed charges against the senior Sandusky,” according to Sandusky’s tenuous connection to Eagles [Comcast Sports Net 11/11/11 by Reuben Frank]

 

(4)Sara Ganim, The Patriot-News 11/11/11 in Jerry Sandusky lives near school; principal taking ‘action to ensure our children are safe’ reports that his house is near ” Lemont Elementary School” and the principal has had measures in place for a week to ensure safety. Another report says his home backs onto the property with only a fence separating his home from the school property.

 

It also says that Jerry’s bond was “$100,000 unsecured bail — meaning he won’t have to post any money unless he doesn’t show up for court. She also ordered him to have no contact with children.”

 

(5)On Jerry’s adopted son Mike’s birthmother: Boy’s mother was entrusted with another child when her son was placed with Jerry Sandusky [The Patriot-News 11/11/11 by Sara Ganim] “Debra Long, the biological mother of Jerry Sandusky’s youngest adopted child, was entrusted by Children and Youth Services with the care of another child when her son Matt was placed into foster care with Sandusky.

 

Court records show that Long was taking care of her nephew under an agreement with CYS in 1995, when Matt got into trouble related to a barn fire.”

 

After Jerry “requested that Matt” come to live with him, “Matt Sandusky became a foster child, and later was formally adopted as an adult. Long never lost her parental rights.

 

It’s not clear from records what happened to the other child she was caring for.”

 

(6)New York Daily News’ Christian Red takes Matt’s story one step further and suggests that was possibly abused and that is why he attempted suicide in the November 11 article

 

Penn State Jerry Sandusky scandal could be tracked back to 1995 with coach’s adopted son: report

 

(7) The Philadelphia Inquirer blog on November 12 states in Adoption Group Rescinds Award Given to Sandusky that CCAI “A Washington non-profit group has rescinded a 2002 “Angels in Adoption” award presented to former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse of young boys.

 

“As an organization that fights to stop child abuse, our thoughts and prayers are with the children harmed and the families affected by his alleged actions,” the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute said in a statement released Thursday.

 

“This tragedy underscores how important it is to have a foster care system that ensures our most vulnerable children have a safe and stable environment in which to grow.”

 

The group said it was acting to “preserve the inegrity” of the Angels in Adoption Award, which has been presented since 1998 to 1,800 people and organizations who have done exemplary work to help children in need of loving homes.”

 

(8) In Penn State Scandal: Sandusky Had Access To Vulnerable Kids Via Charity 11/12/11 by Kevin Begos and Mark Scolforos] it is revealed that Jerry “invited youngsters for overnight sleepovers at his home and took them to restaurants and bowl games. He wrestled in the swimming pool with kids who craved the attention. And he gave them gifts: golf clubs, sneakers, dress clothes, a computer and money, according to the indictment from the Pennsylvania attorney general.”

 

“Troy Craig recalled attending a weeklong sleep-away camp run by The Second Mile on the Penn State campus in the early 1990s. He was never sexually abused, but in other ways the coach’s behavior seemed inappropriate at the time, said Craig, 33, who is now a disc jockey in State College.

Sandusky “had a way of, whether it was a hug or a hand on the leg in the car as we were driving, or just a way of putting his arm around you,” Craig said. “I said this back then to people I knew. Everybody found it hard to believe, or that I was overreacting. I remember feeling as if I was the only one that thought anything was amiss.”

 

Camps not told

 

“But the word about Sandusky may not have reached other youth programs he was involved with.

 

Sandusky held summer football camps – both at Penn State satellite campuses and at other Pennsylvania schools – for years after he was banned from taking youths onto the main campus by the school’s athletics director and senior vice president. Both officials have now been charged with failing to tell police about a 2002 allegation that Sandusky had sexually assaulted a boy in the showers of the football building.

 

Sandusky held the football camps through his Sandusky Associates company from 2000 to 2008 at Penn State’s Behrend satellite campus near Erie. There were never any complaints, according to a spokesman. Still, Behrend’s athletics director said he wishes someone had told him about the 2002 allegation.”

(9)From Prosecutors: Coach went from mentor to predator [CNN 11/12/11 by Wayne Drash], “The coach and his wife had adopted six children — three after taking them in through foster care. He dedicated most of his off-season to running camps and helping The Second Mile kids, many from single-parent homes and in need of another adult in their lives.” Were the other three domestic or international?

 

(10) On November 13 Deadspin is reporting in Judge Who Set Unsecured Bail for Jerry Sandusky is a Second Mile Volunteer “When Jerry Sandusky was initially arraigned, as previously reported by Sara Ganim, prosecutors requested $500,000.00 bail and that Sandusky be required to wear a leg monitor. District Judge Leslie Dutchcot, however, ordered that Sandusky be freed on $100,000.00 unsecured bail. She ordered that Sandusky be freed and pay nothing unless he failed to show up for a court hearing.

 

Judge Dutchcot has quite the professional resume. In addition to her duties as District Judge, she is of counsel to the firm Goodall & Yurchak. It speaks to the small town nature of the county, I suppose, that the firm’s URL is “centrelaw.com.” According to her profile, Judge Dutchcot has been named the State College Lawyer of the Year, completed a “Leadership” program and has served as a counselor at Centre County Law Enforcement Camp Cadet, Inc.

 

Of course, also according to her profile, Judge Dutchcot is a volunteer for Sandusky’s group, The Second Mile. Sandusky turned himself in the morning of November 5, a Saturday, at Judge Dutchot’s Centre County office. He was released, under the aforementioned terms, shortly thereafter.

 

Attorneys often serve charitable foundations in their pro bono capacities, or just volunteer in their spare time, so there is nothing weird about that. It just seems that, given the nature of the charges, the small town atmosphere and her relationship to Second Mile, Judge Dutchcot should have recused herself from being involved with this process. Or, that could be precisely why she did not.”

 

Update 4: November 14

 

(1) “The Board of Directors of The Second Mile said it accepted Dr. Jack Raykovitz’s resignation Sunday.” He had served as CEO for 28 years. “The Second Mile said it will be conducting an internal investigation of its programs.”

President of Charity Linked to Penn State Sex Abuse Scandal Resigns

[Fox News 11/14/11]

 

(2)Mike McQueary hires a lawyer with experience in employment law.

Mike McQueary, Sandusky case witness, hires Harrisburg firm that specializes in employment law

[The Patriot-News 11/14/11 by Sara Ganim]

 

(3) Three of the children that Jerry adopted were from foster care. The other three were adopted as infants. ”

 

Second Mile CEO Jack Raykovitz is an alum, as are many of its donors. But Palmer said the organization will have to separate itself from its associations with Penn State though that may be difficult given its ties to the university.

 

The organization must also assure donors that it is doing everything possible to make sure its children are protected in the future.

 

The fact that the allegations involve children the organization intended to serve makes the accusations especially troubling.

 

In a statement last weekthe organization said, “the newly released details and the breadth of the allegations from the Attorney General’s office bring shock, sadness and concern from The Second Mile organization. Our prayers, care and compassion go out to all impacted.”

 

“To our knowledge, all the alleged incidents occurred outside of our programs and events,” the organization said on its website.

 

Raykovitz testified to the grand jury that he was informed in 2002 by Pennsylvania State University Athletic Director Tim Curley that an individual had reported to Curley that he was uncomfortable about seeing Jerry Sandusky in the locker room shower with a youth.

 

“Curley also shared that the information had been internally reviewed and that there was no finding of wrongdoing. At no time was The Second Mile made aware of the very serious allegations contained in the Grand Jury report,” the charity said.”

 

“With revenue of $2.9 million in 2010, according to its annual report, and a staff of about 20, The Second Mile had three offices in Pennsylvania.”

Penn State Scandal: The Second Mile Tries to Distance Itself From Founder

[ABC News 11/11/11 by Susanna Kim]

 

(4) Jerry Sandusky says he is “innocent” in an interview with Bob Costas and appears that he will fight the charges.”“I am innocent of those charges,” the 67-year-old Sandusky said. “… I could say that I have done some of those things. I have horsed around with kids I have showered after workouts. I have hugged them, and I have touched their legs without intent of sexual contact.”

 

Asked if there was anything he did do wrong, Sandusky said, “I shouldn’t have showered with those kids.”

 

“A spokesman for Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly declined to comment on the interview, citing the active investigation.

 

Sandusky’s remarks came the night his attorney, Joe Amendola, told CNNthat his client was just behaving like “a jock.”

 

“Jerry Sandusky is a big overgrown kid,” Amendola said. “He’s a jock, and for anybody who’s ever played sports, you get showers after you work out. … What I’m being told happened is that Jerry was in the shower with this kid, the kid was messing around, having a good time, you had (former graduate assistant and now wide receivers coach Mike) McQueary come in and see that. He felt uncomfortable.”

Sandusky Says He is ‘Innocent’of Charges

[Washington Times 11/14/11 by Associated Press]

 

Jerry Sandusky: ‘I shouldn’t have showered with those kids’ [LA Times Blog 11/14/11 by Rene Lynch] adds “Costas managed to nab a telephone interview with Sandusky. During the interview, Sandusky said he is not guilty.

 

“I say that I am innocent of those charges,” Sandusky told Costas. When asked by Costas, “Are you a pedophile?” Sandusky responded, “No.”

 

MSNBC’s Jessica Hopper explains in Jerry Sandusky to Bob Costas in exclusive ‘Rock Center’ interview: ‘I shouldn’t have showered with those kids.’ “Sandusky’s attorney, Joseph Amendola, verified Sandusky’s voice and asserted his client’s innocence.

 

“I believe in Jerry’s innocence. Quite honestly, Bob, that’s why I’m involved in the case,” Amendola said.

 

“We expect we’re going to have a number of kids, now how many of those so called eight kids we’re not sure, but we anticipate we’re going to have at least several of those kids come forward and say this never happened. This is me, this is the allegation, it never occurred. In fact, one of the toughest allegations…what [Mike] McQueary said he saw, we have information that that child said that never happened,” Amendola said.”

 

(5)Larry Dignan, CBS News explains in Penn State scandal: The financial fallout

 

“As Moody’s noted, Penn State’s financial worries are going to play out over a series of years.

 

Here are a few educated guesses on the financial fallout Penn State will see:

 

Lawsuits. Penn State will have to spend millions defending itself from lawsuits. In addition to those legal fees will be potential damages. As Sandusky’s alleged victims come forward, the damages could swell from millions to billions of dollars.

 

Enrollment. Paterno was the face of Penn State who went well beyond the football field. The natural comparison to the Penn State scandal is the Catholic Church, which lost many followers with its own sexual abuse scandal. It’s not a leap to figure that some prospective students may not choose Penn State following the sexual abuse scandal. Penn State’s 2011 enrollment was 86,205, down from 87,309 in 2010, according to the university’s fact book. Given the rising costs, higher education is already a bubble waiting to happen, and diploma return on investment needs to be considered. The great unknown: Has Sandusky tainted the value of a Penn State diploma?

 

Alumni contributions. According to the Council for Aid to Education, Penn State raised $195.3 million last year. That sum is second in Pennsylvania to the University of Pennsylvania, which had gifts totaling $381.6 million. Penn State’s 557,331 alums may hold on to their wallets and crimp the university’s programs.

 

Nittany Lions. Penn State football may not be a breadwinner going forward. Penn State has an interim coach and the Sandusky scandal may mean that the university lost its recruiting class too. Penn State’s stadium was packed for a game with Nebraska Saturday, but recruiting will suffer. Ultimately, weaker recruiting means fewer wins and less revenue for the school. Technically, Penn State’s intercollegiate athletics are self-supporting, but may be pinched without the halo effect of the football team.

 

Sponsorships. So far no corporate sponsors have pulled their support from the Penn State athletic program, according to the Wall Street Journal, but it’s certainly a possibility. As lawsuits drag on, the emerging details could spook marketing departments. Penn State sponsors include GM, Mohegan Sun, and Highmark.

 

In other words, the Sandusky scandal is going to hammer Penn State’s budget going forward. For 2010-2011, Penn State had a $1.88 billion operating budget, which was already under fire do to state budget cuts. Penn State’s appropriation from the state of Pennsylvania is now back to 1995 levels. ”

 

Update 5: November 17

 

There have been many, many updates over the past few days. We are collecting them and posting in bundles.

 

(1) The Second Mile CEO’s wife is its vice president. Katherine Genovese and Jack Raykovitz received a combined income of $233,000 from the organization in 2009 according to President of charity linked to Penn State abuse resigns [Associated Press/Kevin Begos 11/14/11]

 

(2) Sandusky’s lawyer,Joe Amendola, 63 at age 49, impregnated a 17-year-old, represented her for emancipaton and then married her. They are currently separated. Sandusky lawyer impregnated a teen [The Daily 11/14/11]

 

(3)Joe Amendola claims that boy in 2002 incident denies it happening Boy in 2002 incident denies abuse: Sandusky lawyer [Reuters 11/14/11]

 

(4) Mike McQueary, through an email to a friend that was leaked to the Press, claims to have stopped the assault AND contacted police. Penn State coach Mike McQueary says he stopped alleged Sandusky assault [Gant Daily 11/16/11] “In the email, first obtained and reported Tuesday by The Morning Call of Allentown, Pa., McQueary said he “did have discussions with police and with the official at the university in charge of police” after the alleged incident.

 

In the email, dated Nov. 8, McQueary said, “I did stop it, not physically, but made sure it was stopped when I left that locker room,” The Morning Call reported.

 

McQueary has been silent as the case has unfolded but in a brief interview with CBS News on Tuesday, McQueary said he could not discuss specifics and described his emotions as “all over the place.”

 

“Just kind of shaken. Crazy,” McQueary said. “Like a snow globe.”

 

(5)Pennsylvania police confirm that NO report was made, though and Second Mile files may have gone missing with possible indication that alleged payoff occurred. ( Nice try, Mike. NOT. His email does not match what the Grand Jury found, either) Pennsylvania police say no record of Mike McQueary reporting Jerry Sandusky alleged sex abuse incident with young boy [New York Daily News 11/17/11 by Teri Thompsen and Michael O’Keefe]

 

“Pennsylvania cops say they have no records that support Mike McQueary’s claim that he called police after he allegedly saw Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sodomize a boy in a campus locker room.

 

University spokeswoman Lisa Powers said on Wednesday that University Police are reviewing McQueary’s assertion that he reported the assault after he says he saw Sandusky having anal sex with a boy in the shower.

 

“We have no record of any report filed by Mike McQueary with the Penn State University Police regarding the 2002 allegations involving Jerry Sandusky,” Powers told the Daily News. “Since hearing of the recent news reports, we are looking into this matter further, but right now it is clear that our law-enforcement records indicate that no report was ever filed.”

 

“State College police chief Tom King also said on Wednesday that McQueary did not report the assault that is graphically described in a grand jury report to his agency. The report, which led to the ouster of famed Penn State coach Joe Paterno, said McQueary was not questioned by University Police or any other law-enforcement agency until he testified before a grand jury in December.””The Times also reported that the grand jury investigation revealed that records from the charity Sandusky chaired – The Second Mile – had gone missing, possibly stolen, raising questions about whether Sandusky had taken money from the charity to pay off victims.”

 

(6)The 17-second pause in the Bob Costas interview. We previously missed reporting the pause Jerry Sandusky Stumbled Over His Words When Bob Costas Asked If He Was Sexually Attracted To Young Boys [Business Insider 11/14/11 by Leah Goldman]

 

“Perhaps the strangest part of the interview came when Costas asked Sandusky if he was sexually attracted to young boys. Sandusky nervously responded:

 

(7) New Judge Assigned In Sandusky Case [WCVB 11/16/11] On Wednesday November 16, a new judge was assigned due to the connections that the previous one had with Second Mile. “The new judge is Judge Robert E. Scott, a senior judge of Westmoreland County, who will preside over Sandusky’s preliminary hearing on Dec. 7.”

 

“Judge Scott “has no known connections with the Pennsylvania State University, the Second Mile charity, nor any officers or representatives of any of those entities,” according to the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts.”

 

And if you have heard about Paterno transferring his house to his wife for $1 this past summer, it is likely NOT some conspiracy, but normal estate planning. It is surprising that he hadn’t done this long before he was 84. “In a separate development, public records and legal notices show that Paterno in July transferred ownership of his family home to his wife, Sue, for $1.

 

Paterno’s attorney, Wick Sollers, said in an e-mail the transfer was “unrelated to and unaffected by the current situation. The Paternos have been engaged in a multi-year estate planning program and this was simply one element of that plan.”

 

Mark Lloyd, a certified estate planner in Atlanta, said the Tax Relief Act passed in Congress mandated that the maximum amount someone can pass on to their children without an inheritance tax, or “death tax,” is $5 million, so splitting assets and utilizing trusts may be part of estate planning for a couple with an estate worth more than that amount.”

 

Revictimization

 

“The mother of one of Sandusky’s alleged victims told ABC’s “Good Morning America” Sandusky’s interview “sickened” her.

 

“I think he made himself look more guilty,” said the woman in an interview that aired Wednesday. Her face was not shown and her voice disguised.

 

“He definitely shouldn’t have showered with those kids,” she said. “It was sickening. I mean, I don’t know anybody — anybody — who when somebody’s like, 50, would get in the shower naked with a 10-year-old.”

 

She said her son cried as he watched Sandusky’s interview. Asked why he was crying, “He said, ‘Because I’m afraid he’ll go free,'” the woman said.

 

Ben Andreozzi, an attorney representing one of Sandusky’s alleged victims, told NBC, “It’s fair to say my client was re-victimized as he watched Mr. Sandusky make his statement.”

 

(8) Speaking of revictimization, TWO different sets of lawyers are reporting that they have been contacted by alleged victims after the Sandusky interview. Though police have denied reports by NYT that 10 additional victims have come forward, we expect many more victims will indeed come forward.

 

Lawyer: Sandusky denials “salt in the wounds”

[CBS News 11/16/11]

 

“They’re really suffering despair, confusion and, really, fury because Sandusky and those around him remain free to speak and deny. And every time they do, speak and deny, they are really putting salt in the wounds, they are really putting a dagger in the heart, they are really wounding the soul even further and, in that way, we are really trying to work with these survivors to help them in their recovery, protect them, and let them know that something can be done and will be done about what has been done,” attorney Jeff Anderson said on “The Early Show” Wednesday.

 

Anderson, who specializes in child sexual abuse cases, also said that in recent days he has been contacted by a number of alleged victims’ families.

 

 

“All of them (are) expressing a desire to make the truth known about what happened to them and their families and, in particular, a desire, a courageous desire to make sure that other kids are not harmed, because in the final analysis, what the victims and the … courageous survivors we work with want, first, is to be believed and, second, to make sure that other kids are not harmed the way they were and are and that is why we are working so hard,” Anderson told “Early Show” co-anchor Erica Hill. ”

 

 

Exclusive: Jerry Sandusky interview prompts long-ago victims to contact lawyer[The Patriot-News 11/17/11 by Sara Ganim] reports ” Hearing his voice and his words proclaiming no wrong — while admitting he showered innocently with young boys — was a trigger for some who say they were abused by the former Penn State defensive coordinator. One said it went back to the 1970s, around the time Sandusky founded the charity that prosecutors say was his axis for finding victims.”

 

“They’re literally processing it right in front of us,” attorney Andy Shubin said. “They have kept it from their families, moms, brothers and sisters. … The folks we talked to are largely folks in their 20s, who in a lot of cases have never told their story before.”

 

 

” Shubin, who is working closely with attorney Justine Andronici, has also teamed up with psychologists, social workers and a national child sex abuse organization so that these people can seek mental help along with possible legal recourse.

 

 

Many, Shubin says, haven’t yet decided if they are going to talk to police. Some cases might be too old for a viable prosecution.

 

But all are seeking to heal, Shubin said, and their pain was re-triggered by Sandusky’s interview Monday night with NBC’s Bob Costas.

Shubin and Andronici released a statement Tuesday outlining their plan to take civil action on behalf of victims who want to pursue that kind of relief.

 

 

Shubin is well-known in State College for his civil rights work, and is often sought out by crime victims for representation. He has a reputation for taking on Penn State in other lawsuits.

 

 

“The word is getting out that we have the interest of the victims,” Andronici said. “People know who Andy is, they know who I am. They see that we’re in a position to advise them as they navigate this. It’s an extremely daunting process — getting prepared in their mind to deal with this.”

 

(9) NBC NewYork is reporting in Sandusky May Have Hosted 6 Fresh Air Fund Kids: Charity [11/16/11 by Shimon Prokupecz and Jonathan Dienst] that that nonprofit may have sent 6 kids to stay at the Sandusky home, some in the 1970s and one in the mid1990s. “A New York City-based nonprofit serving disadvantaged youth says as many as six children may have stayed at the home of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky over the last three decades, NBC New York has learned.

 

 

 

 

“The organization first learned Monday that child sex abuse suspect Sandusky may have been a host.”

 

(10) Citizen’s Bank who gives away buttons with slogans demeaning their competition has had to pull their buttons due to the phrases printed on them according to The Patriot-News Dustin Hockensmith 11/16/11 Penn State buttons pulled over possible double meanings in light of sex abuse scandal

 

Phrases like “Brie them to their knees”, “All Quiet on the Eastern Front”, “Hoo’s Sorry Now”, “Much Ado About Nuttin'” and “Stifle the Nois”, “Owl-ch” and “Lions in Hawk Pursuit.”

 

 

 

(11) Information about the large pensions. http://www.examiner.com/children-s-recreation-in-harrisburg/jerry-sandusky-sex-scandel-some-things-you-may-not-know [The Examiner 11/14/11 by Toby Heishman] $148,271 and Jerry still receives $4,908 per month!

 

“When Jerry Sandusky retired, he opted for a lump sump payment from the State Employees’s Retirement System. He took a payment of $148,271.

• Jerry also gets a monthly pay out as part of his pension. He makes $58,898 annually. That comes to $4,908 a month.
• Vice President Gary Schultz receives even more money. He elected for a lump-sump payment of $421,847.
• Gary Schultz also receives a monthly pension payment. His monthly pension is $27,558! That comes to $330,696 a year!
• The pensions were previously private information; however Patriot News launches a case against the University and took it the whole way to the state Supreme Court. Why was everything such a secret if no one had anything to hide?”

 

Update 6: November 21

 

(1) Victim #4 tells his story at Jerry Sandusky’s ‘Victim Four’ tells his story of alleged abuse for years by Sandusky as a surrogate father [The Patriot-News 11/17/11 by Sara Ganim] “For Victim Four, it isn’t about a single shower. His story begins with a surrogate father and turns into a nightmare.

 

It is about several years of alleged abuse. It starts almost immediately after he meets legendary Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. And after watching Sandusky proclaim his innocence on national television, Victim Four, as he is known in court papers, is more determined than ever.

 

“My client now has become even more adamant that he intends to testify and not waver from his grand jury presentment testimony,” said his attorney, Ben Andreozzi.

 

The day they met, authorities said, Sandusky began to touch him. It happened in a swimming pool, and he remembers Sandusky testing his boundaries, authorities said. Victim Four met Jerry Sandusky when he was 12 or 13 during the boy’s second year with The Second Mile. But Sandusky was kind to the boy, and initially Victim Four thrived on the affection.

 

Then there were the showers — where authorities allege soap battles that would lead to indecent contact.

 

The two started working out together, playing sports together. The boy accompanied Sandusky to charity events, parties and on football trips. They had sleepovers in hotels. He even was part of the Sandusky family trip to two bowl games.

 

Now 27, Victim Four was a fixture in the Sandusky household as a child. And Sandusky, the youth’s attorney says, played two roles — that of a father and that of a molester.

 

“He had a very close relationship with Mr. Sandusky, and I think his relationship was similar to a familial relationship and I think that’s part of the reason it was initially so hard for my client to come forward,” said Andreozzi, of Harrisburg, who also represents another man who says he was molested by Sandusky.

 

“He viewed him almost as a family member and he looked up to him because there were some things that Jerry was doing positive at the time,” Andreozzi said.

 

Victim Four eventually came to know other assistant Penn State football coaches and their families. He was Sandusky’s guest at the coaches’ table at banquets. During hotel sleepovers, he told the grand jury, Sandusky would begin by wrestling him and end with a sexual assault.

 

Signs — like trips with boys and hotel room stays — might have been noticed sooner if Sandusky wasn’t viewed as being such a selfless, almost saintly community leader.

 

“Now we know it’s a little weird,” Andreozzi said. “I think there are a number of instances, a number of people who were under the impression that Sandusky was an upstanding person in community.”

 

Sandusky won the boy over through his generosity, according to the grand jury. He showered the boys with gifts, including clothing, a snowboard, Nike shoes, sports lessons, golf clubs, jerseys. He once gave him $50 to buy pot, and let him smoke it in his car, authorities say.

 

He included him in a Sports Illustrated photo and a video about Penn State’s linebackers. Sandusky guaranteed the boy a walk-on position on the Division I football team.

 

There was even more to the relationship. In 1999, Victim Four remembers Sandusky being distraught after meeting with Joe Paterno and being told he wouldn’t be the next head football coach.

 

Victim Four had become his confidant.

 

But as he got older, Victim Four began to distance himself. He would hide in closets when Sandusky came for him. He got a girlfriend.

 

After he came forward to police, Sandusky’s attorney began trying to discredit his story with examples of continued communication with Sandusky.

 

“Anyone that handles sexual assault cases on a regular basis understands that there is a complex relationship between the perpetrator and the victim, and that the perpetrator utilizes his control and power over the victim — and it’s extremely difficult for the victim to break free from the control,” Andreozzi said.

 

Today, Victim Four is receiving a great deal of advice from his attorney. People have asked Andreozzi if Victim Four is angry with Dottie Sandusky, Jerry’s wife, or other members of the Sandusky household. They ask if he is angry with the football program. Or with former Penn State coach Joe Paterno?

 

“At this point, his anger is directed at Mr. Sandusky,” Andreozzi said. “That does not mean that he excuses the actions of the others. It’s fair to say that he knew the Sandusky family quite well.”

 

On Monday, Sandusky and his attorney made their prime-time debut. Sandusky, on NBC, denied all the abuse allegations. Sandusky admitted he might have made mistakes in being too touchy-feely during shared showers.

 

Many people were surprised that Sandusky did the interview and stunned by what he said. But those who are working with the victims said it actually might have been a good thing.

 

Since the interview, attorneys who represent crime victims have been fielding phone calls from people who say they were victims of Sandusky. Hearing him proclaim his innocence, “I bet we’ve gotten close to half-dozen to a dozen,” Andreozzi said.

 

One of them is a man in his 30s who talked to police earlier this week. He will probably end up testifying before the grand jury, Andreozzi said. At least one has alleged abuse dating back to the 1970s.

 

“I think that Mr. Sandusky’s decision to speak to the media may have backfired,” Andreozzi said.”

 

(2)Matt’s Birthmother has more to say at How Jerry Sandusky, Mentor, Turned A Quiet Kid Into A Troubled One [Jezebel 11/17/11 by Whitney Jefferson] “This morning, the birth mother of one of Jerry Sandusky’s adopted children spoke to Good Morning America about her relationship with the coach — and the effect he had on her son. Matt Sandusky, now 33 years old, is not named as one of Jerry’s victims and insists that he wasn’t abused by his adoptive parent, but Long suggests that the coach had a negative effect on her son’s teenage years.

She claims Sandusky first entered their lives as a “mentor,” and gave Matthew gifts, like money and clothes: “It was as if Jerry owned Matthew.” After Matthew set fire to a barn and was placed in a juvenile facility, he moved in with Sandusky as a foster child. Sandusky eventually adopted Matt.

 

“My son was afraid of Jerry. If Jerry said don’t talk, he didn’t talk. I would sit back and watch when Jerry would show up, how excited Matt was,” she said. “And then, as time went on, I would watch the same kid hide behind the bedroom door and say, ‘Mom, tell him I’m not home.'”

 

Debra Long blames her son’s transition from peaceful child into troubled law-breaker on Sandusky.

 

“It wasn’t until Jerry came into the picture that Matt started acting out in school. Matt ended up burning down a barn with another youth, you know — it wasn’t until Jerry came into the picture … that mentor turned him from the quiet, good kid into — what Jerry could use to take him.”

 

While allegations of abuse aren’t a factor in Long’s allegations, it certainly seems that the nature of Sandusky’s interactions with young people was a cause for concern. And he surrounded himself with young folks for years.”

 

(3) Former Child Companion Defends Sandusky [Fox New York 11/17/11] ”

Chad Rexrode, now 35, told The Daily that between the ages of 10 and 14, he and Sandusky were “inseparable,” and that nothing inappropriate ever happened between them.

 

According to Rexrode, the two met 25 years ago when he was living with his mother in State College, after writing to the Penn State assistant football coach for a homework assignment. To Rexrode’s surprise, Sandusky wrote back and the two started spending time together until Rexrode moved to Pittsburgh in the eighth grade.

 

“I spent many nights, many times at his house,” said Rexrode, adding that Sandusky slept in his own bedroom with his wife.

 

In the grand jury indictment, the alleged victims say their molestations began with Sandusky putting his hand on their thighs. Rexrode said he saw nothing wrong with that.

 

“He would always pat you on the leg because he was proud of you,” he said. “That was like his sign to you. As soon as he picked me up [in his car] he’d give me a comforting pat on the knee … and a hug was just for support, showing that he’s proud of you.”

 

Rexrode referred to Sandusky as a “father figure,” and recalled other kids looking up to him as well.

 

“We’d be in the swimming pool,” said Rexrode, recalling regular trips the two would make to a public pool in State College. “And kids would always be climbing on Jerry. Kids just loved to be around him. He would always throw the kids around in the pool. He loved that.

 

“It made all of us feel like we were something. Like we could make our lives better. That’s how he was.”

 

The two have kept in touch over the years, with Sandusky even attending Rexrode’s wedding in 2003.

 

Then, six months ago, according to Rexrode, who now owns a landscaping business and is the father of two young children, Sandusky called him and said, “You’re going to hear stuff and it’s not true.”

 

When the allegations finally emerged earlier this month, Rexrode said he called Sandusky to offer his support.

 

“I told him, ‘Jerry, I just want you to know you have the Rexrodes’ support, I know how you are.'” Rexrode said. “I didn’t ask him anything [about the indictment] because it wasn’t the time for me to ask that. It was just time for me to be positive.”

 

Sandusky, according to Rexrode, was upbeat.

 

“He wasn’t in the dumps. He didn’t sound like he was defeated.”

 

(4)Second Mile refutes NYT assertions that it will close in Sandusky’s charity considers options amid sex scandal [MSNBC 11/18/11]

 

(5)Penn State was PAID by Second Mile in Sleepover Camps as recently as 2009. EXCLUSIVE: Penn State Paid by Sandusky’s Charity for Use of Facilities as Recently as 2009 [Fox News 11/19/11 by Jana Winter]

“Penn State University received almost $250,000 for a series of sleepover camps in 2008 and 2009 run by the charity group founded by Jerry Sandusky – years after ex-athletic director Tim Curley imposed an “unenforceable” ban on the accused child molester from bringing children onto the school’s sports facilities and main campus.

 

Financial records obtained by FoxNews.com show $124,587 was given to Penn State by The Second Mile in 2009. The year before, in 2008, the university received $119,592 from The Second Mile. The money is listed under “food and lodging” in charity records, and officials said the payments were made on a series of week-long sleepover camps.”

 

 

“Penn State apparently took money for the camps months after the mother of a high school freshman contacted authorities in the spring of 2008 saying her son had been abused by Sandusky. That allegation kick-started the grand jury investigation that earlier this month indicted Sandusky on 40 counts of child sex abuse charges.

 

It’s not clear if Sandusky, who was still director of The Second Mile in 2008 before the group cut ties with him, participated in the camps. University officials said their records do not show the names of those who participated, and The Second Mile officials declined requests to answer questions about Sandusky’s involvement.

 

But Sandusky was still an “active” director of The Second Mile and earned $57,000 in The Second Mile’s 2008 fiscal year, which ended August 31, 2008. Three months later, in November, Sandusky told The Second Mile he was under investigation, and the charity banned him from activities with children, according to a recent statement by the former The Second Mile CEO Jack Raykovitz, who resigned on Sunday.

 

Sandusky also held sleepover football camps for boys, run through his own corporation, Sandusky Associates Inc., at satellite Penn State campuses all over the state, even after he was turned out from The Second Mile.

 

When asked for details about money paid to Penn State in 2008, the university’s associate vice president for finance and business, Daniel Sieminski, told FoxNews.com via email that The Second Mile ran five weeks of camps. “These funds paid for all the food, lodging and miscellaneous expenses incurred by the University for these camps.”

 

In response to a series of follow-up questions, Sieminski said the activities related to the camps were held at various locations on the main Penn State University Park Campus. “Camps were conducted in classrooms, the outdoor pool, outdoor fields, and Creamery,” he said, adding that campers had access to those locations and the university dorms where they stayed.

 

 

The 2008 camp dates were:

 

July 5-10 boys – 64 participants, 21 staff

 

July 12-17 girls – 100 participants, 24 staff

 

July 19-24 girls – 90 participants, 23 staff

 

July 26-31 boys – 75 participants, 22 staff

 

August 2-7 boys – 65 participants, 21 staff

 

Sieminski said he did not know the specific name(s) of the The Second Mile camp program. The university’s records do not precisely correspond to the information in The Second Mile’s online reports for the summer of 2008, which classified the camps as a 10-week “Challenge Program.”

 

FoxNews.com on Friday visited the The Second Mile office in State College, and a receptionist said the charity’s new CEO, David Woodle, was in meetings but would reply to email questions. Woodle did not reply to two emails sent afterward.

 

When asked about the camps and the money, the receptionist referred to reports on the website. When told the report for that year mentions only one sleepover camp, the Challenge Program, she said the charity also hosted other camps, but would not offer details. The Second Mile and Penn State officials have both denied they were associated with the Sandusky Association football sleepover camps for boys grades 4 to 9 — though they were held on Penn State campuses in 2008, according to a flyer still posted on the website of the university’s Erie campus. Advertisements for the camp have listed the registration contact information as the Penn State (psu.edu) address of Sandusky’s son, Jon.

 

Sandusky ran the same football sleepover camps on Penn State campuses the following year, in 2009, nearly a year after the charity banned him from activities with children and nearly a decade after the first reports of his alleged sex abuse surfaced.

 

The 2008 payment was not the only one found in The Second Mile’s tax returns, in which Penn State is listed among the highest paid consultants. In 2009, after the charity says it banned Sandusky from activities with children, The Second Mile paid Penn State more than $100,000 to hold another series of camps on the university’s campus. The Second Mile 2008 fiscal year payment is reflected in Penn State’s 2008/09 fiscal year, the school official noted.

 

The charity’s director/treasurer, Ralph Licastro, an accountant and professor at Penn State’s business school, was not home or unavailable when FoxNews.com stopped by on Friday to ask about the payments. His wife asked for a reporter’s business card, and said he would call back if he chose to do so.

 

No one answered the door at the home of Raykovitz, who stepped down on Sunday in the wake of the ongoing scandal. But Raykovitz’s wife, Katherine Genovese, is still with the group, and remains its second-highest earner on the charity board, according to records.”

 

Deadspin actually scooped most of this story on November 6 at As Recently As 2009, Jerry Sandusky Was Running An Overnight Football Camp For Kids On Penn State Campuses Get ready for the nominee for worst facepalm of the year…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As Fox News stated, that PSU email address was to his son, Jon.

 

“Of the child sexual assault charges against former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky, the fact that stands out most is that Joe Paterno, Tim

 

Curley and Gary Schultz were aware of incidents as early as 2002. Curley testified to the grand jury that he “advised Sandusky that he was prohibited from bringing youth onto the Penn State campus from that point forward.” Seven years later, in the summer of 2009, Sandusky was still hosting overnight camps for children as young as 9 at other Penn State schools.

 

A reader sends us the flyer for the Sandusky Football Camp, a four-day, three-night resident clinic offered at Penn State’s Behrend campus in Erie, and other stops around the state including Penn State Harrisburg.
According to the program’s now-defunct website,

 

The goal of the camp is to learn as much about the game of football while having an enjoyable experience. Jerry Sandusky’s personal experience and his excellent staff will cater to each individual camper helping them to reach their personal potential. With a variety of individual drills for every position team drills, and games, the participants will be able to build a solid fundamental background for which they can carry the rest of their lives. They will walk away with many of the ideas and concepts Jerry Sandusky has used during his brilliant career. A career that included two national championships and 28 bowl appearances! Lessons on life discipline, teamwork, trust, and loyalty will be stressed in motivational speeches by great guest speakers and selected video presentations. Regular camp instructors will include members of Jerry’s family, other college and high school coaches, and former Penn State players.

 

It’s unclear if Sandusky was compensated by Penn State for overseeing the camp, which he operated via his Sandusky Associates company located in State College. But multiple schools in the Penn State system hosted and provided facilities for the program, touted Sandusky’s Penn State affiliation, and featured other instructors from the Penn State family: an implicit endorsement of the camp at the very least.

 

Sandusky ran the camp for nearly a decade, but there doesn’t appear to have been a 2010 edition. By that summer, a grand jury had already begun its investigation.

By Barry Petchesky”

 

(6) Ex-FBI Direcor Louis Freeh is tapped to lead NCAA investigation PSU taps ex-FBI director Freeh for investigation [Sports Illustrated.com 11/21/11 by Associated Press/Genaro C. Armas, Marc Levy, Fred Lief and Mark Scolforo]

 

“Former FBI director Louis Freeh, tapped to lead Penn State’s investigation into the child sex-abuse allegations against a former assistant football coach, said his inquiry will go as far back as 1975, a much longer period than a grand jury report issued earlier this month.

 

Freeh was named Monday to oversee the university board of trustees’ internal investigation into the abuse allegations that ultimately led to the ouster of longtime football coach Joe Paterno and university President Graham Spanier.

 

Freeh said his goal was to conduct a comprehensive, fair and quick review. His team of former FBI agents, federal prosecutors and others has already begun the process of reading the grand jury report and looking at records.

 

“We will immediately report any evidence of criminality to law enforcement authorities,” said Freeh, who has no connection to Penn State.

 

Penn State has faced criticism since announcing that its internal investigation would be led by two university trustees, Merck pharmaceutical company CEO Kenneth Frazier and state Education Secretary Ronald Tomalis.

 

Faculty members on Friday called for an independent investigation of how the university handled abuse allegations, and the faculty senate endorsed a resolution asking for an independent investigation.

In announcing Freeh’s appointment, Frazier stressed the former FBI director’s independence. Freeh will be empowered to investigate employees up to and including the board of trustees itself, Frazier said.

 

“No one is above scrutiny,” Frazier said.

 

Freeh said he had been assured there would be “no favoritism.” He called that assurance “the main condition of my engagement.”

 

Former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is accused of molesting eight boys over a 15-year period beginning in the mid-1990s. Authorities say some assaults happened on campus and were reported to administrators but not to police.

 

Authorities say Sandusky, who retired from Penn State in 1999, met the children through The Second Mile, a youth charity that he started in 1977. By going back as far as 1975, Freeh’s investigation would cover the entire time The Second Mile has existed and 24 of the 30 years that Sandusky worked at Penn State.

 

Amid the scandal, Penn State’s trustees ousted Spanier and Paterno. The trustees said Spanier and Paterno failed to act after a graduate assistant claimed he saw Sandusky sexually abusing a young boy in a campus shower in 2002.

 

Paterno, who has the most wins of any major college football coach, has conceded he should have done more. Spanier has said he would have reported a crime if he had suspected one had been committed.

 

Sandusky has said he is innocent. He has acknowledged he showered with boys but said he never molested them.

 

Former school administrators Tim Curley and Gary Schultz are charged with not properly alerting authorities to suspected abuse and with perjury. They maintain their innocence.

 

Freeh founded an investigation firm, Freeh Group International Solutions, after leading the FBI from 1993 to 2001. He previously served six years as a special agent.

 

Freeh’s law firm was hired to look into the bribery case involving FIFA’s presidential election.

 

Soccer’s governing body banned candidate Mohamed bin Hammam for life for bribing voters. The ruling body also banned 11 Caribbean soccer leaders and disciplined others in the corruption scandal.

 

Freeh said he spoke with Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly on Sunday night and was determined not to interfere with the ongoing criminal case. A spokesman for Kelly said she was aware of the Penn State trustees’ special committee, but declined comment about it.

 

Gov. Tom Corbett called Freeh’s selection “a good one,” noting his familiarity with grand juries and the role of prosecutors.

 

Freeh will report to a special committee comprised of six university trustees; Dan Hagen, chair of the university’s faculty senate; Rodney Hughes, a doctoral student in higher education at Penn State; and retired Air Force Col. and astronaut Guion Bluford, a 1964 Penn State graduate.

 

Officials also announced that anyone who has information related to the probe can contact investigators at a telephone hotline – 855-290-3382 – and a special email, PSUhelp(at)freehgroup.com.

 

Meanwhile, Penn State police have referred a report of an indecent assault at an outdoor swimming pool building to the attorney general’s office.

 

A police log noted the report referred to an incident that occurred sometime between June 1, 2000, and Aug. 30, 2000. The report was made to campus police Wednesday and was noted on Thursday’s police log.

 

When asked if the report was related to allegations against Sandusky, Penn State Police Chief Tyrone Parham said Monday: “We can never describe anything related to a victim or suspect.”

 

State open records laws do not require Penn State to release the full police report.

 

A state lawmaker who represents the State College area said he was sponsoring a bill that would reverse the exemption – which currently applies to Penn State and three other universities that rely heavily on state funding but are independently run.

 

Rep. Kerry Benninghoff said a “more open climate” might prevent future scandals.”

 

Update 7: November 24

 

(1) Two new victims come forward who are still minors (and one a “grandson”) and hearing for Sandusky that was supposed to be in Tuesday November 21 was delayed until December 13 according to Report: 2 new cases of child abuse alleged against Sandusky [MSNBC 11/22/11]. The cases were reported less than 60 days ago. Now Penn State ‘paedophile Jerry Sandusky is accused of sexually abusing one of his own GRANDCHILDREN [Daily Mail 11/24/11 by Hannah Roberts and Mark Duell] “Sandusky, the former defensive coordinator for Penn State football team, is accused of molesting at least eight boys over a 15-year period.

 

His lawyer Joe Amendola said the accusation comes from the wife of one of Sandusky’s five adopted sons.”

 

“Amendola told ABC News: ‘The allegations are ridiculous and unfounded. Jerry has absolutely denied any inappropriate contact with his grandkids.’

 

The incident was not reported to authorities until after Sandusky was charged earlier this month, he said.”

 

The daughter-in-law (believed to be Matt’s wife) has brought forth the allegations.

 

(2) The Patriot News by Sara Ganim on November 22, 2011 states that “for the first 15 months of the investigation against Sandusky, there was only one state trooper assigned to the case.

 

It wasn’t until the fall of 2010 that agents from the state Attorney General’s office got involved, and then when then-Attorney General Tom Corbett was elected governor and took office in January 2011, he appointed state police commissioner Frank Noonan, who increased the number of investigators to eight.

 

That was when things really started to take off. It wasn’t until January 2011 that Joe Paterno, fomer athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz testified. It wasn’t until April that officials from The Second Mile testified.

 

None of the other seven cases of alleged abuse, outlined in the grand jury presentment, were known until more investigators joined the team.

 

The 1998 police report — which never led to charges when investigated by missing district attorney Ray Gricar — wasn’t found until late 2010. That file was found around the same time that assistant coach Mike McQueary was contacted for the first time by police.

 

McQueary testified before the grand jury that he’d witnessed abuse in 2002 and reported it to Schultz and Curley, but nothing ever came of that investigation.

 

As a result of his testimony, Curley and Schultz were charged with perjury and failure to report a crime.

 

But none of the cover-up investigation began until 2011. And it wasn’t until after The Patriot-News broke the story of the investigation in March of this year, that officials from the Clinton County school district where Sandusky had allegedly spent time with Victim One were subpoenaed.

 

Gricar’s former staff members were not interviewed until after March 2011.

 

And Jerry Sandusky’s home was not searched until this summer — two and half years after the investigation began.

 

In response to questions about the length of the investigation, Corbett said yesterday:

“The one thing you do not want to do as a prosecutor is go on one case. … You want to show a continued course of action.”

 

If a first set of charges are filed early and “you were to lose that one case, it would be much more difficult to bring charges in other cases because it would be seen by you, by the public, as vindictive,” he added.

 

Corbett noted that decisions on filing charges or working to build a stronger case are made with the team of investigators. He did not address why only one investigator was assigned to the case until late 2010. His spokesman, Kevin Harley, has said that information is not accurate. However, The Patriot-News confirmed it with several sources close to the investigation.

 

“These are professional prosecutors who are … making tactical decisions which you all are questioning. And you have the right to question that,” Corbett said. “But these are people who have experience in these fields, and they made decisions that I agreed with when I was there, and that current Attorney General Linda Kelly has agreed with thereafter.”

 

(3) The New York Times on November 23, 2011 identifies Victim 1 as a 15 year old runner when he came forward with allegations (he is now 18). His track coach that he trusted was Thom Hunter. “The New York Times has interviewed dozens of friends, coaches and others involved in the case to fill out a portrait of the boy, his experiences, his life before he became part of Pennsylvania’s most high-profile investigation, and his life since.

 

According to Hunter, school officials, once aware the boy might have been molested by Sandusky, took some degree of care, telling Hunter he should not be alone with the boy, but never saying exactly why. Hunter, whose relationship with the boy deepened through months of coaching and the boy’s recovery from a serious car accident, was ultimately let go by the school. Hunter’s e-mail communications with the boy — aimed at dissuading him from abandoning track this past summer — were deemed a breach of the school’s rules on maintaining distance between coaches and student-athletes, particularly the boy now known as Victim 1.

 

The boy, according to friends and others, was taunted by classmates after it became widely known this month that he had testified against Sandusky as part of a case that ultimately caused Joe Paterno, the longtime football coach at Penn State, to lose his job. Hunter said the boy confronted school administrators recently, angry about Hunter’s dismissal, and has never returned.”

 

(4) Victim 1’s mother describes the poor treatment he son received and again states he has left the school in Penn State Scandal: Mother Of Alleged Jerry Sandusky Victim Claims Mistreatment By Son’s School [Huffington Post 11/22/11 by Ryan Buell]

 

“In an interview conducted last week, she explained why she pulled him from the school.

“They were not helpful,” Mother One said of the school’s administrators. “They wanted me to go home and forget about it.”

 

Mother One also alleges that since the Sandusky scandal erupted, fellow students and the high school’s football coach (who also serves as assistant principal) have all targeted her son with verbal attacks and threats of violence.

 

She also claims that the school’s principal tried to convince her and her son not to report their allegations against Sandusky to the police, and that as recently as this month, refused to treat threats of violence against her son by other students as credible.

 

Central Mountain High’s principal, Karen Probst, and its football coach, Steve Turchetta, did not return phone calls seeking comment about Mother One’s complaints.

 

Mother One — who first spoke to the Patriot News earlier this month — and Victim One, who is now 18, requested anonymity to preserve their privacy and their safety.”

 

“As a single parent, Mother One said she wanted to take advantage of the opportunity Second Mile offered. Her son enjoyed Second Mile’s summer camps, which is where she recalls meeting Sandusky for the first time.

 

They were in a warehouse where the charity’s annual Parent Award Ceremonies were held. “My son grabbed me by the hand and said, ‘Come on, I want you to meet someone,'” she recalled. He then “practically dragged” her across the big space to introduce her to Sandusky. “I was like, ‘Okay, nice to meet you.’ I didn’t know who he was. I had no clue who he was. I had never even heard of Jerry Sandusky prior to this.”

 

Mother One remembers regularly seeing Sandusky frequenting the school halls throughout her son’s middle school years. She assumed he was volunteering in some capacity and didn’t think further of it.

Toward the end of eighth grade, things changed at home. Victim One began to lash out in unusual ways, his mother recalled, “getting mouthy and nasty at home.”

 

“I called the school psychologist and they brushed it off. They said it was just puberty. That he was a good kid and that it would all work out.”

 

Since she had no reason to suspect anything else was amiss, she said she went along with the counselor’s advice.

 

The following year was Victim One’s first at Central Mountain High. Once again, Sandusky apparently had a presence at the school.

 

Mother One says she still didn’t find his presence odd — at least not at first. “I thought he was involved in all the schools. I thought that he just made the rounds.”

 

As stated in the grand jury report, her suspicions escalated one evening after her son asked how to look up “sex weirdos.”

 

“I had a friend at the house with me watching TV when he just came out of the blue with that. My friend and I just kind of looked at each other. I thought he was being a smart aleck. I said to myself, ‘Okay, I’ll play this game.’ I asked him who he was looking up and he said, ‘Jerry.'”

 

“I started laughing and said, ‘You’re not going to find Jerry on there. And do you have something to tell me?'”

 

Visibly upset, her son walked out, leaving Mother One and her friend to wonder exactly what the truth was.

 

“We just stared at each other and I remember saying to myself: What if…what if…what if…?”

 

She circled back to her son and asked him if he really did have anything he needed to tell her.

 

“He didn’t come out and say anything directly about Jerry at first. He started telling me that he was upset about his school and his grades and that he felt everyone hated him. At first I thought he was just saying what any child says when they’re stressed out or in trouble. I reassured him that no one in the school hated him. That’s when he told me that they did, because he was always getting pulled out of class.”

 

Victim One then explained to his mother that he was being taken out of school several times a week, sometimes daily. When she pressed him, he explained that Sandusky wanted him to leave the school with him.

 

She said she immediately knew something was wrong.

 

“I didn’t know about that,” she said, shaking her head slowly at the recollection. “I was never aware that he [Sandusky] did that.”

 

According to both Victim One and his mother, it was the assistant principal and varsity football coach Steve Turchetta who authorized and granted Sandusky this access, despite a lack of parental permission or notification.

 

Turchetta defended his actions, according to the grand jury indictment, saying that it wasn’t unusual to “call a Second Mile student out of activity period at the end of the day, at Sandusky’s request, to see him.”

 

With her son being taken off school property on a frequent basis without her permission, and his expressed concern about Sandusky being a “sex weirdo,” Mother One said she contacted the school.

“I didn’t know how to start the conversation with the high school counselor because I didn’t know how to come out and say, ‘I think Jerry Sandusky is doing something to my kid,'” she explained. “I finally said to the counselor, ‘You’re a mother. I’m a mother. I have a gut feeling that something isn’t right.'”

Mother One explained that her son was clearly troubled by Sandusky and wanted the school to talk with him. She also informed the high school principal, Karen Probst, that she didn’t appreciate the school allowing Sandusky to take her son anywhere, and demanded that the school help to stop the visits.

 

But according to Mother One, the school acted as if there was nothing to be concerned about.

 

“The principal just waved it off, saying, ‘You know, it’s Jerry. He’s around the school a lot and talks a lot with Second Mile kids. He has a heart of gold.’ I was furious. They were defending this guy.”

Mother One said she stopped arguing when she realized the principal wasn’t willing to admit to any wrongdoing. She then asked that a counselor speak to her son, to see if he’d open up. The school agreed.

 

A few hours later, her phone rang. It was Probst, who she said asked her to drive to the school immediately.

 

Mother One already knew where this was going.

 

Reaching the counselor’s office, she saw her son sitting in a chair and crying uncontrollably. He was, she recalled, in “an absolute meltdown.”

 

Then, she said, the principal entered the room.

 

“The principal said that my son thought something inappropriate might have happened with Jerry. And of course, I instantly lost it.”

 

As her son spoke between sobs, Mother One’s worst fears were confirmed. Victim One said he was terrified, and that he thought things would only get worse.

 

Mother One had heard all she needed to. “Then we’re going to call the police,” she recalled saying. She looked at the counselor and principal, expecting them to nod, or to agree. Instead, she claims, they told her to think about it, and asked her how it would affect her family.

 

“I repeated the line three times. I said let’s call the police. Right now. Let’s do it. And they continued to stare at me.”

 

As his mother described it, her son rocked in his chair and shook his head, looking as if he was about to have a nervous breakdown. Still sobbing, he shouted: “See! They don’t believe me!”

 

Mother One said the counselor and the principal, both women and both employees of the public school system, didn’t respond. They didn’t offer condolences of any sort, she said.

 

“I remember saying, ‘I’m not playing. This isn’t funny. I mean seriously, look how upset he is! Something happened.'”

 

Mother One said the principal stood her ground.

 

“Jerry has a heart of gold, he’s been around all these kids and you really should just go home and think about what this is going to do to your son and your family if you do that,” Mother One recalled the principal saying.

 

“At that point, I had had enough. I told him that we were leaving. He grabbed his backpack and we just left the women sitting there.”

 

As she drove home, trying to maintain her composure in front of her son, she said she called a close friend who worked with the state’s Children’s Youth Services program. The friend agreed to meet them at their home, and then took them to the Services center.

 

That’s where she met Dr. Mike Gillum, a licensed psychologist with a private practice in Williamsport, Pa., who has also worked with the state on child abuse cases. He’s worked closely with Victim One and Mother One ever since that first meeting.

 

According to Mother One, Gillum called the principal at the high school to inform her that Sandusky was now the subject of an abuse investigation and therefore could not be allowed near the school or Victim One.

 

As the full story emerged, Victim One revealed that for nearly two years he was subjected to various sexual acts by Sandusky. Some had even occurred at the middle school and high school, where Sandusky had been given complete access to him by school officials.

 

On Nov. 7, Pennsylvania State Attorney General Linda Kelly praised Central Mountain High School for “doing the right thing” in the Sandusky matter. The indictment states that the school immediately called the police when it was informed of the abuse.

 

Mother One said that that description of the school is false and that she removed her son from Central Mountain in part because of the school’s reluctance to take action.”

 

“Neither Turchetta nor Probst (nor any school official, for that matter) have explained why Sandusky was given the authority to pull Victim One out of class and take him off school grounds without permission from his mother. Calls placed to the offices of Central Mountain High School have gone unanswered.

 

And although Sandusky has been barred from the school, Mother One said other problems remained, which also convinced her to pull her son from the school. She said that once her son disclosed the abuse, fellow students and even school administrators remained skeptical — and often incredulous — about his claims.

 

One evening, while Mother One was shopping, she said the grandmother of one of the varsity football players approached her in a rage and, according to Mother One, proceeded to publicly berate her.

“She said, ‘Thanks a lot! What are you doing getting involved for your son? Your son doesn’t even play football anymore.’ I remember saying, ‘What are you talking about?'”

 

According to Mother One, the woman responded, “Oh, your son had to go and accuse Jerry [Sandusky] of abusing him and now he’s not allowed to help the football team and he’s not allowed around the school.”

 

Aside from Child Youth Services, the police, Gillum, a few school administrators and immediate family members, she said she’d told no one else what had happened to Victim One.

 

Shocked, she asked the grandmother how she found out. Mother One recalls the woman responding that Turchetta brought it up at his weekly football parent meeting, presumably with family members of the football team.

 

According to Mother One, the woman added, “Coach Turchetta said these charges are never going to stick and he’ll walk away.”

 

“She never asked me if the charges were true. She just finished up with, ‘Thanks a lot. Now our football team is going to lose and it’s all because of your son.'”

 

Mother One said that Turchetta found ways to target her son as punishment for getting Sandusky removed from school grounds.

 

Although Turchetta didn’t coach her son directly, his role as assistant principal and his involvement in the sports department gave him influence over other sports programs within the school. Mother One claims her son developed a close bond with a 28-year-old volunteer coach, which Turchetta abruptly ended.

 

One day, she recalled, her son told her that Turchetta was in his face, yelling at him: “With what you’ve done already, no 28-year-old man needs to be around you.”

 

“I think he was accusing my son of having some kind of relationship with him,” she said. “That’s how my son took it, too.”

 

Mother One said it was Turchetta’s hostility, coupled with fears for her son’s safety, that led her to remove her son from the school last week.

 

Since the Sandusky scandal broke, many have speculated over Victim One’s identity; his mother says some in their community have figured out who he is, and have threatened the boy for being gay (which, she says, he is not).

 

A few days prior to removing her son from the school, Mother One said she learned some students had been threatening her son. She said she called principal Probst immediately.

 

“I heard that some kids were going to do some gang beating on my son,” she said she told Probst. “I want to make sure you are aware of that and that Mike Gillum was going to talk to the county to see if we could get some police up there, to take whatever measure’s to keep him safe.”

 

Mother One said the principal responded by saying: “Okay, we’re going to have a meeting and we’ll get back to you.”

 

Mother One said she persisted.

 

“I tried to tell her that the school needed to educate these kids about what my son has been through,” she said. “I suggested them having a student assembly where they could talk about abuse so they could understand what has happened.”

 

When the principal called back, she was more concerned about a BB gun found in the back of her son’s vehicle more than a month earlier, according to Mother One.

 

“There was nothing about her meeting, nothing about my son’s safety. No response to the threat that some kids were going to hurt my son,” Mother One said. “Instead she brought up the BB gun they apparently found over a month ago. She said that he left the school distraught and had a BB gun. And I thought, ‘What are you getting at now?’ What’s that BB gun have to do with this? That BB gun is rusty and probably 100 years old. It’s been sitting in his car forever.”

 

Bewildered by the school’s inaction, she removed her son from the school.

 

Gillum believes that the school’s actions are at odds with some of the statements about how it handled Victim One’s complaints.

 

“Given the disparity between the actions taken when the initial symptoms were observed and the mother requested intervention to determine whether or not he was being victimized by this man, and then for the school officials to resist pursuing law enforcement or children and youth services, then later down the road to have officials claim that they were suspicious of Jerry Sandusky, or concerned about him, is obviously not congruent,” he said.

 

Mother One said she is also troubled by what she believes are inconsistencies with the school officials’ testimonies in the grand jury report. She points out that Turchetta claims he became suspicious of Sandusky’s behavior and actions around certain students.

 

“If he suspected something was going on then why didn’t he report it?” she asked.

 

NIGHTMARES EVERY NIGHT

Mother One said she’s worried that her son will be further targeted as a result of this article, but decided to be interviewed because she wants her son’s story to be heard.

 

She’s also angry that Sandusky is currently free on bail.

 

“My son can’t go anywhere,” she said. “He can’t go to the mall. Sandusky and his wife were just seen there over the weekend. Can you imagine what that would do to my son if he were to see him?”

 

She said her son is in constant fear, particularly about being abused again by Sandusky. Neither Victim One nor his mother sleep in their respective bedrooms; the two now sleep on separate couches in their living room.

 

She says her son has nightmares “every night,” and that she does, too. She said she wakes up nightly when she overhears her son’s cries in his sleep. He never says what he dreams about.

 

For his part, Gillum won’t go into detail about his patient’s mental state. But he noted that in almost all cases, rape and sexual abuse victims suffer from depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and think about hurting themselves physically.

 

Mother One said she hopes that she can give her son a semblance of normalcy one day. Humor, she said, helps. She said her son is a huge fan of Adam Sandler and that his films keep the house laughing.

She adds that her son already has a college in mind, and is hoping for a full scholarship and a possible major in criminology. She says her son watches “CSI” and “all those other cop shows” religiously, and has a heightened sense of justice on behalf of people who have been victimized. She said in a statement to the Patriot-News’ Sara Ganim that her son’s “major concern in the whole thing” was preventing anyone else from being abused.

 

Mother One says neither she nor her son have any anger toward Penn State as a whole. She says that the recent candlelight vigil by more than 10,000 Penn State students and State College residents in support of the victims was “very moving — that was a very nice gesture they did.”

 

She and Gillum also hope that Penn State will learn from this scandal, re-evaluate the policies that they say allowed Sandusky to continue his actions for so long, and perhaps allow the victims themselves to help craft any new policies.”

 

(5) Judge who arraigned Sandusky got donation from Second Mile chairman in 2007 [Centre Daily Times 11/22/11]

 

“Robert Poole, chairman of the state board of directors for The Second Mile, contributed about $2,400 to the campaign of Magisterial District Judge Leslie Dutchcot in 2007, according to Dutchcot’s campaign finance reports.

 

Dutchcot arraigned Jerry Sandusky and set the $100,000 unsecured bail, after the Attorney General’s Office asked for a higher, cash bail and electronic monitoring.

 

Criticism has arisen that Dutchcot had a conflict of interest with The Second Mile, as a volunteer and donor for the organization Dutchcot.

 

She has not commented on that issue, saying previously that a judge is not allowed to comment on pending cases. She did not return a message Thursday seeking comment on Poole’s campaign contributions.

 

Messages left for Poole at his local companies, Poole Anderson Construction and S&A Homes, were not returned.

 

According to Dutchcot’s campaign finance reports, Robert and Sandra Poole donated $1,463.02 on Oct. 9, 2007, in the form of a fundraiser held at their home. On Oct. 31, 2007, the couple donated $1,000.”

 

(6) Cleland to preside over Sandusky case [Olean Times Standard 11/23/11 by Diane Kerner Arnetti]

 

“McKean County Senior Judge John M. Cleland of Kane was named Tuesday to preside over the child sex-abuse case against former assistant Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky.

 

The Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts announced Cleland’s appointment Tuesday after all Centre County Common Pleas Court judges “recused” or excused themselves from hearing matters in the case. The judges did so in order “to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest due to real or perceived connections” to Sandusky, the university or the charity for at-risk children Sandusky founded, according to the AOPC.”

 

(7) Sandusky denies new child-abuse allegations, attorney says [CNN 11/24/11]

 

“Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky denied Wednesday two new allegations of child abuse that authorities are investigating, his attorney said.

“Jerry has adamantly denied the allegations,” said attorney Joseph Amendola, adding that the accusations appear to be part of “a very nasty divorce and custody battle.”

 

“”Jerry has absolutely denied any inappropriate contact with his (family members). It’s important to keep in mind these allegations were made after the attorney general filed charges against Jerry even though the alleged incident(s) took place before the AG’s charges were filed,” Amendola told CNN.”

 

“The attorney said he and Sandusky haven’t been told of the nature of the alleged abuse by the attorney general or the family member who made the allegations.

 

“Even if you buy into the attorney general’s allegations against Jerry — which we vehemently dispute and which we intend to vigorously defend against — these new allegations don’t fit the profile presented by the AG. These new allegations appear to be the result of a very nasty divorce and custody battle,” Amendola said.

 

If the allegations are found to be credible, they would be the first known cases involving current minors to become public since Sandusky’s arrest. All the other publicly known cases have involved alleged victims who are now adults.”

 

(8) Judge Bars Disclosure Of Alleged Victim’s Identity In Sandusky Case [Channel 3000 11/23/11 by CNN]Former VP on Penn State say that football players received softer treatment for infractoins. Regarding the new victims: “A Pennsylvania judge has issued a temporary order barring courts and attorneys from disclosing the name of a boy who was allegedly sexually abused by former assistant Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky.

 

Judge Kathy A. Morrow’s order also sealed parts of Sandusky’s criminal case relating to “John Doe” or containing personal identifying information about him or his family, court documents said.

 

Meanwhile, a former Penn State vice president accused the former school president and former football coach Joe Paterno of demanding — and receiving — reduced punishment and special treatment for football players facing disciplinary action.

 

Attorneys representing the alleged victim said Wednesday they sought the order because “we expect the lawyers representing Jerry Sandusky and the other Penn State defendants to file court documents that would publicly identify our client or his family,” said Andrew Shubin, one of the victim’s attorneys.

 

“Right now our client and the other victims we are speaking with are terrified about being publicly identified, and we will continue to do everything legally possible to prevent that from happening,” Shubin said in a statement. The court order was issued Tuesday.”

 

Soft Discipline of Football Players at PSU

 

“Vicky L. Triponey, the vice president from 2003 to 2007, said in a statement Wednesday that the university held “an ongoing internal debate” during her tenure about who should make decisions about the disciplinary status of football players.

 

“Conversations surrounding this debate included among others, the student affairs professionals charged with enforcing the student code of conduct, members of athletic administration, the head football coach, the president of the university, and me as the vice president for student affairs,” Triponey said in the statement. She provided the statement to CNN in response to a request for an interview.

 

Triponey said that Spanier or Paterno or both had “numerous meetings and discussions” with her over the years about student discipline cases involving football players.

 

“The nature of those interactions consisted of suggestions, requests and at times demands that we adjust our process, alter the outcome and/or reduce the sanctions imposed on football players who were found responsible for various violations of the student code of conduct,” Triponey said.

 

“As a result of these various meetings and conversations, my staff and I felt compelled to alter how we handled cases involving Penn State football players,” she said. “The consequence of these accommodations put us in the position of treating football players more favorably than other students accused of violating the community standards as defined by the student code of conduct.”

 

(9) Lawyer: Don’t let Sandusky charity dissolve assets [AP 11/23/11] “A lawyer says a charity founded by a former Penn State assistant football coach accused of molesting boys shouldn’t be allowed to dissolve its assets.

Harrisburg lawyer Ben Andreozzi represents someone who claims to be a victim of Jerry Sandusky. The Legal Intelligencer newspaper (http://bit.ly/13lQNt) reported Wednesday that Andreozzi filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction against Sandusky’s charity, The Second Mile.

 

A spokesman for the charity says it received the filing and will adhere to its legal responsibilities.

 

The charity said last week it was considering its future in light of the scandal and its options include closing, though no decision has been taken.

 

Sandusky is accused of abusing eight boys. Authorities say he met them through the charity. He says he’s innocent.

 

The charity’s most recent tax filing showed it had almost $9 million in assets.”

 

(10) Race of victims needs to be discussed. “The resulting cover up or veil of secrecy which has been ongoing for the past 12 years may be more heinous then the alleged crimes themselves. While state and federal law prohibit the identity of a sexual crime victim from being released (no matter what age) it is interesting that no one is discussing the race of these young victims. Which also leads one to ask if these boys would have been young white males would the code of silence and veil of secrecy remained so strong and so quiet for so long?

 

The Second Mile Foundation was started as a Group Home in the State College Area (home of Penn State). According to both the grand jury report as well as the Second Mile website as “a program to work with troubled boys and grew into a charity dedicated to helping children with absent and dysfunctional families”. What has not been disclosed or a topic of conversation is that many of the alleged victims are African American. According to Pennsylvania foster care records 48% of all children in out-of-home care are African American and 53% of all children in foster care are males with an average age of 11-years-old. Aubrey Manuel, President of the California State Care Providers Association (CSCPA) stated that, “These percentages are very similar to California.” The likelihood that the majority of these children are African American is overwhelming. “Particularly given that these kids were in a program, that the state foster care population is over 50% African American Males and that the Second Chance Foundation client base is poor, underprivileged and foster children and that the coach (Sandusky) used sports as a major recruiting tool to get close to the victims it would not be a risk at all to believe that at least half of the Penn State victims were Black Boys. The victim population most likely reflected that of foster care population.”

 

Throughout the grand jury report are stories of young boys between the ages 9 and 12 years old. All recruited and involved with Sandusky through the Second Mile Program. Furthermore, in almost every account someone saw lewd and lascivious acts being conducted upon children ranging from oral sex, to actual anal intercourse between Sandusky and these children. Much has been discussed about the graduate assistant coach Mike McQueery actually witnessed the anal sex act and later reported it to then Head Coach Joe Paterno. Joe Paterno did report the allegations to Athletic Director who later interviewed McQueery and then reported back that “they had taken away Sandusky’s keys to the locker room”. McQueery was never questioned or interviewed by campus or city police.

 

But what about the report or failure to report the instance by then elementary school wrestling coach Joseph Miller who witnessed an incident one evening in 2006 or 2007 but failed to report it for almost 5 years. Or Steven Turchetta an Assistant Principal and head football coach at a local high school who testified that “Second Mile program is a very large charitable organization that helped children who are from economically underprivileged backgrounds and who may be living in single parent households.” Turchetta testified that he witnessed on more than one occasion Sandusky removing the boy from class and ultimately heard of the sexual assault allegations by the boy’s mother, who called the school to report the sexual abuse.

 

Sandusky and Penn State are both considered culpable in these sickening crimes. Sandusky because he not only used his relationship with Second Mile to gain access to the boys and preyed on the very vulnerability that The Second Mile Foundation was supposed to be assisting these boys with overcoming and making them stronger men. As well as Sandusky used his relationship with Penn State to give these children access to a football program known worldwide and is an icon in Pennsylvania and in College Park in particular, which is where Sandusky lured these boys with gifts, trips and access that grown men would be overwhelmed with let alone 9-13 year old boys from impoverished homes and foster care facilities.

 

Penn State, because they knew about these allegations and improper events and actions almost 15 years ago, did nothing but turn a blind eye. It is outrageous and sickening that this 67-year-old man is alleged to have done to a few as 9 and now allegedly up to 23 boys, all who came from broken homes in the poorest parts of the community who were only looking for guidance and someone to look up to.”

 

Penn State: How Many of the Victims Were Black?

[Black Voice News 11/24/11 by Danny J. Blakewell, Jr.]

 

Update 8: November 29

 

(1) One of the latest two victims to step forward is Matt Sandusky’s 5-year-old son. Other stories mentioned the grandson and Matt’s wife, but this states his age for the first time. (According to Penn State Sex Abuse: latest accuser allegedly Sandusky 5 yr old grandson [All Voices 11/26/11 by Veronica Roberts]

 

(2) In another bizarre part of this story, Jerry Sandusky and his wife are said to be the ones to arrange child visitation FOR his adopted son Matt instead Matt himself. Adoption, foster circles reeling over Sandusky portrait [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 11/27/11 by Debra Erdley]

 

“Long before his arrest this month on 40 charges related to child sex abuse, Sandusky successfully navigated the system’s various background checks to become the adoptive father of five sons and a daughter, a foster parent, a host for a half-dozen Fresh Air Fund children from New York City and a congressional honoree as an “Angel in Adoption.”

 

Court records show Sandusky and his wife, Dottie, were designated to coordinate visits with his grandchildren as recently as last year when one son’s marriage began to disintegrate.

 

Child advocates say all of that makes the portrait prosecutors have painted of Sandusky as a serial pedophile even more disturbing.” INDEED!

 

(3) Second Mile is asking a judge to throw out one of the lawsuits that asks for assets to be preserved because THEY WANT TO MOVE MONEY! Right. Keep moving. Nothing to see here. Second Mile lawyers ask judge to throw out lawsuit that would prevent charity from moving money [The Patriot-News 11/28/11 by Sara Ganim]”Lawyers for The Second Mile are asking a judge to throw out a request to preserve the assets of the charity in anticipation of lawsuits.

 

“The request was made last week by the attorney for Victim Four, one of eight boys in a grand jury presentment who alleged sex abuse by Jerry Sandusky. Sandusky founded The Second Mile and was the face of the organization for most of the time it existed, but grand jurors investigating him say he used the charity as a way to find victims.

 

Second Mile attorneys say the suit was filed in the wrong court, that Victim Four has no evidence the charity’s actions led to the alleged abuse, and the request to essentially freeze assets prevents the charity from continuing to help children.

 

“Any sexual abuse suffered by plaintiff or any other victim, especially children, is a tragedy of unspeakable depth,” the attorneys wrote. “… Plaintiff has not alleged, and cannot prove, that (The Second Mile) has engaged in any conduct to improperly hide or dissipate assets.”

 

The charity is being represented by Archer & Greiner, a Philadelphia law firm where former district attorney Lynne Abraham now works. She is conducting the internal review of the organization.”

 

(4) Jerry Sandusky is said to have hired a private investigator to study sex abuse claims. Gee, maybe he should hire the Nevada professor of Clinical Psychology who just testified in the foster parent sex abuse case in California since he claimed that children don’t keep sex abuse quiet. Jerry Sandusky has hired a private investigator to study sex-abuse claims, his attorney says

[The Patriot-News 11/28/11 by Sara Ganim]

 

(5) This is our first case in the How Could You? archive that the spoof website the Onion has created a spoof about. They are spot on correct, too. From November 28, 2011: Nation’s 10-Year-Old Boys: ‘If You See Someone Raping Us, Please Call The Police’

 

Update 9: December 2

 

(1) All 6 of the identifed victims (2 remain anonymous) will testify at Jerry’s hearing on December 13 http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/29/all-identified-sandusky-victims-to-testify-lawyer-says/?test=latestnews [Fox News 11/29/11 by Jana Winter]

 

“The other six are expected to take the stand at the upcoming hearing set for Dec. 13, including the Clinton County youth known so far only as Victim One. The alleged victim kickstarted the investigation by telling authorities he was being abused by Sandusky, a former defensive coordinator under legendary football coach Joe Paterno.

 

The case has engulfed Penn State in scandal over how school officials responded to what they knew about the allegations, and it led to the firing of Paterno and the university’s president. Two other school officials were hit with charges of perjury and failure to report allegations of child abuse to authorities as required by law.

 

McLaughlin said he and Michael Boni were retained last week by Victim One and have been busy preparing their client for the hearing. The victim, now 18, is still experiencing emotional turmoil over the abuse by Sandusky, McLaughlin said.

 

Sandusky’s attorney Joseph Amendola has said repeatedly that some of the alleged victims would recant their allegations. He also has said one of the victims cited in the grand jury report would be coming forward with a different story, casting doubt on the allegations involving him.

 

Amendola downplayed the upcoming testimony in an email Tuesday to FoxNews.com.

 

“We believe there’s a significant possibility at least one and perhaps two of the alleged victims may testify no sexual contact occurred between them and Jerry Sandusky,” he said, while acknowledging that others likely will claim “sexual acts” or “inappropriate touching” occurred.

 

Sandusky has denied the charges against him, though he admitted in a TV interview that he had showered with boys after camp workouts.”

 

(2) New victim comes forward with a lawsuit. He said that Jerry threatened to hurt him and his family if he came forward with allegations. New Sex Abuse Suit Claims Sandusky Threatened Boy’s Family If He Told [ABC News 11/30/11 by Colleen Curry]

 

 

“The latest person to accuse former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky of sexual abuse also claims that Sandusky threatened to hurt the boy’s family if he ever told anyone about the abuse.

 

 

The man, whose identity was not released, issued a statement that said, ”I don’t want other kids to be abused by Jerry Sandusky or anybody like Penn State to allow people like him to do it–rape kids! I never told anybody what he did to me over 100 times at all kinds of places until the newspapers reported that he had abused other kids.”

 

“I am hurting and have been for a long time because of what happened, but feel now even more tormented that I have learned of so many other kids were abused after me,” he said.

 

Anderson said the boy met Sandusky through the Second Mile foundation when the alleged victim was 10, and was abused by Sandusky from 1992 to 1994. He said that Sandusky threatened to harm the boy’s family if the boy told anyone about the abuse. Sandusky also paid for sports camps, plied the boy with gifts, and took him on trips, Anderson said.

 

The lawyer said during a press conference today that they had filed suit against Sandusky, Penn State and the Second Mile charity seeking reparations for over 100 acts of sexual abuse.

 

Anderson alleged that Sandusky had abused the boy at Penn State University, at Second Mile events, at his home, at a Penn State bowl game out of state, and in Philadelphia.

 

The victim notified law enforcement authorities on Tuesday, Anderson said.

 

The lawsuit alleges child abuse, negligence, emotional distress, and conspiracy to endanger a child, among other charges. It was filed in the Philadelphia Court of Common please and seeks a jury trial.

 

“How can it be that (Sandusky) was allowed to be such a peril to so many kids for so long?” Anderson asked. “It is because those among him, when they saw the signs or heard the signals, refused to see, hear or act because they thought more of the institution and trusted him blindly, in a way that made the kids suffer enormously.”

 

Anderson, a Minnesota attorney who specializes in child sex abuse cases, said he believed Sandusky had hundreds of victims, and blamed Penn State and Second Mile officials for looking the other way when clear signs of Sandusky’s abuse were evident, including a 1998 investigation into Sandusky showering with a boy on Penn State’s campus.

 

The Second Mile said saying it would review the complaint and adhere to its legal responsibilities throughout the process.

 

“As always, our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families,” the statement said.”

First lawsuit filed against Sandusky by man who claims he was molested at least 100 times [Bellingham Herald 11/30/11 by Jeremy Roebuck and John P. Martin]

“He said: Nobody will believe you, and if you do, something will happen to your family,” lawyer Jeff Anderson said at a news conference.

 

The 26-page filing does not name the accuser and Anderson refused to describe or identify him except as “John Doe A.” He said the man, who now lives outside Pennsylvania, reported the allegations to law enforcement authorities on Tuesday, a day before he filed the suit.

 

Sandusky’s lawyer, Joseph Amendola, did not respond to requests for comment. He and Sandusky have said the coach is innocent of the criminal charges against him.

 

Officials at Penn State and the Second Mile said they could not comment on the lawsuit because they had not yet reviewed it.

 

If true, the claims would add a new dimension to the Sandusky case – suggesting a sustained period of abuse that began earlier, in 1992, and lasted longer, four years, than any other claims thus far.

 

Prosecutors have charged Sandusky with abusing at least eight boys between the mid-1990s and 2008.

Nils Frederiksen, a spokesman for state Attorney General Linda Kelly, said the office could not confirm if Anderson or his client had been in contact with investigators.

 

In a statement released by his lawyer, John Doe A said he came forward after the recent reports about Sandusky.

 

“I never told anybody what he did to me over 100 times at all kinds of places until the newspapers reported that he had abused other kids,” the statement said. “The people at Penn State and Second Mile didn’t do the things they should have to protect me and the other kids.”

 

Based in St. Paul, Minn., Anderson has represented hundreds of sexual abuse victims worldwide. He and his co-counsel on the case, Marci Hamilton, filed a half-dozen claims this year against the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and its priests and officials.

 

John Doe A’s suit says he met Sandusky in 1992 through the Second Mile, the charity for at-risk youth Sandusky founded in 1977. The abuse began almost immediately, the lawyers said.

 

Similar to allegations spelled out in the grand jury presentment against Sandusky, John Doe A claims the coach showered him with gifts, took him to a bowl game and on trips with the football team, and often invited him to sleep at his home in State College.

 

The lawsuit claims that if university or charity officials had investigated Sandusky, they would have found the coach “had been molesting children since at least the 1970s.”

 

Anderson acknowledged he had no proof of that claim, but rather “indications” based on the evidence cited in the grand jury report and long-term studies of pedophile behavior.

 

“We’re at the tip of the iceberg here,” he said.

 

The filing came one day after two Philadelphia-area lawyers said they had been hired by a Clinton County teenager whose accusations launched the wider investigation into Sandusky two years ago.

Lawyers Michael J. Boni and Slade H. McLaughlin announced they represent the Lock Haven youth – known in the grand jury report as Victim 1 – and his mother.

 

Two other attorneys, Benjamin Andreozzi of Harrisburg and Andrew Shubin of State College indicated they also represent victims of abuse by Sandusky. Others are expected to follow.

 

Sandusky faces a preliminary hearing in Centre County on Dec. 13, when prosecutors could disclose if they have identified more potential victims and how many.

 

Three days later is a scheduled hearing for two current or former university officials charged with covering up one attack. The grand jury report said athletic director Tim Curley and former vice president Gary Schultz failed to tell authorities in 2002 that a graduate assistant claimed to see Sandusky raping a 10-year-old boy in the football locker room showers.

 

Both Curley and Schultz maintain they were not told a sexual assault had occurred – a claim backed by the university’s former president Graham B. Spanier and head football coach Joe Paterno.”

 

(3) Facepalm: Sex column in Penn State independent student-run newspaper called “Mounting Nittany” has ended in the wake of this case

“Mounting Nittany,” Penn State’s Student Sex Column, Hasn’t Run Since Jerry Sandusky Was Arrested [SportsGrid 11/30/11 by Dan Fogarty]

 

(4) Only 400 students showed up to an open “no holds barred” forum on Penn State campus on how the university should move ahead. No action plan seemed to come from it. Hundreds attend campus open forum to voice their opinions about Penn State scandal [Bellingham Herald 11/30/11 by Angela Couloumbis]

 

(5) Second Mile settles lawsuit with one of the victims (Victim #4) This case and the new one are identified as “The cases are John Doe #4 v. The Second Mile, 11112384; John Doe A v. The Second Mile, 111102968, Court of Common Pleas Philadelphia County (Philadelphia). ”

 

Jerry Sandusky’s Second Mile Charity Settles Alleged Abuse Victims Lawsuit [Bloomberg 12/1/11 by Sophia Pearson]

 

“The Second Mile, a charity run by former Pennsylvania State University football coach Jerry Sandusky, settled a lawsuit filed by an alleged sexual abuse victim seeking to freeze its assets, according to a lawyer.

 

The charity agreed to obtain court approval prior to transferring assets or closing down and provide notice to the plaintiff before any distribution of funds, attorney Ben Andreozzi said today in an e-mailed statement. Andreozzi represents a man identified as John Doe #4 in the complaint, filed Nov. 23 in Pennsylvania state court in Philadelphia.

 

Sandusky, 67, was charged by state prosecutors Nov. 5 with 40 counts related to alleged molestation of eight boys from 1994 to 2009. Prosecutors charged that Sandusky, who founded Second Mile in 1977, used the charity to find his victims. He has denied any wrongdoing.

 

“Our goal in filing this lawsuit was to protect the interests of our clients and other victims,” Andreozzi said.“We intend to initiate a civil lawsuit seeking damages from the organizations and individuals responsible for the sexual assaults upon our clients.”

 

The organization, which serves children with physical, emotional and academic needs, saw its assets more than triple from 2002 through 2009. Net assets were estimated at $7.9 million as of Nov. 24, according to court papers.

 

Howard Rosenthal, an attorney for the charity, didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment. ”

 

(6) . Penn State pledges $1.5 M for sex crimes group [Times Union 12/1/11 by Genaro C. Armas and MaryClaire Dale] “Penn State University officials have vowed to increase transparency and ethical standards and plan to donate $1.5 million in bowl proceeds to a pair of sex-crime advocacy organizations in the wake of shocking sex-abuse allegations levied against the school’s once-revered assistant football coach.

 

“Joe Amendola told FoxNews.com that it “is not accurate” to say his client would consider a plea deal now. In a statement sent today to media, Amendola wrote:

“I was asked ‘would your strategy change if the AG filed new charges involving 15 or 20 new alleged victims?’

“I responded, IF that happened, in addition to the planned course of defending against all the charges, I would have to discuss other possible alternatives with Jerry. I wouldn’t be fulfilling my legal obligation to him if I didn’t discuss those other alternatives with him, including the possibility of a plea.

“Jerry has never considered and is not currently considering a plea in his case. My answer to the ‘what if’ question was analogous to saying, if weather forecasters were predicting a blizzard next week, which they are not, I would have to at least consider the possibility of postponing my scheduled trip to Phila. Of course, I’d have to reconsider the trip under those circumstances, just as I would have to discuss with Jerry all the possible alternatives in his case if the AG were to file additional charges alleging there were 15 or 20 new possible victims, which, of course, the AG hasn’t done.

“Jerry and I have had no discussions about any sort of deal in his case. He has always maintained his innocence and continues to do so as we prepare for his preliminary hearing.”

The Patriot-News stands by its story.

Here’s the transcript from Amenola’s interview with Ganim: Interview – Joe Amendola.doc

Ganim did not ask him about 15-20 new victims, and Amendola said he could pursue a different defense strategy if “more allegations” come forth. Neither said there was an agreed-upon plea deal.

“Will there be a point, sit down with him, and say we have x number of allegation. Maybe it’s time to talk about a different strategy?” she asked.

Amendola: “That could happen if more allegations come forth, and Jerry gets the point where he realizes fighting against more than the original allegations might be a real uphill battle. We are in a position where was are climbing a mountain. Just the way the media coverage has progressed, we’re starting from the bottom fight our way up. Bottom line, Jerry has always maintained his innocence. From the 1st allegation and continues to maintain innocence. What happened with any additional charges which may be filed, which hasn’t remains to be seen.”

 

Ganim: “You are looking at 12 or more. When is the point you say maybe we should talk about a plea deal? Aren’t having this conversations with the AG office?

 

Amendola: “No, we haven’t. People who maintain their innocence plead guilty because of the overwhelming evidence against them. Many people who have been convicted of very serious crimes and executed, and later turned out to be innocent, lots of reason why people decide to do certain things. But Jerry has maintained his innocence and what to defense and I’m trying to give him that opportunity.”

 

Update 10: December 4

 

(1) Sandusky had dinner with Victim #2 and another victim in summer 2011 and the police were aware of it. The Board of Trustees at Penn State also reaffirmed Paterno’s firing in a 4-minute meeting on December 2, 2011Sandusky accuser says police knew dinner [USA Today 12/2/11 by Harry Cabluck, AP]

 

“”Police gave their seal of approval for him to attend. They even wanted him to wear an electronic listening device,” attorney Howard Janet said Friday. He also called into question Sandusky’s motives for inviting the man to dinner while the ex-coach knew he was under investigation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Basis for Tampering

 

As Lisa Riordan Seville and Hannah Rappleye of NBC News report, “Jerry Sandusky said he spoke to and even dined with men now identified as his victims.”

 

This contact came while he was under investigation, and that definitely leaves him open to tampering chargers.

 

“One of the questions that raised in my mind, ‘Was this an effort on his part to tamper with witnesses?’ said Howard Janet, a Baltimore attorney representing the man known in the grand jury report of Sandusky as Victim 6. ‘Was it intended as a way to influence the public or the prospective jury pool?’”

 

Apparently police wanted the man, known as Victim No. 6 in the grand jury report, to wear a wire to the dinner.

 

Riordan Seville and Rappleye reported that Janet told them his client, “eventually decided not to because he was nervous.”

 

Appearance of Tampering Guilt

 

All of this just amounts to another damning piece of evidence against Sandusky.

 

Riordan Seville and Rappleye report that in July, Sandusky called Victim No. 6 to set up the dinner.

 

While the former coach called this dinner a Second Mile “reunion,” that is a hard-to-swallow reason given that the NBC report said Victim No. 6 did not see any other Second Mile kids at the dinner.

 

Sandusky would have been fully aware of the case against him at this point.

 

Sandusky and his defense will maintain that Sandusky did not know these people were named in the grand jury report. However, this is very hard to believe, especially in light of the fact that Riordan Seville and Rappleye also reported that Sandusky’s lawyer, Joe Amendola, said the person he believed to be Victim No. 2 was also at the dinner.

 

That is the victim involved in the alleged assault in the showers of the Penn State locker room, reportedly witnessed by Mike McQueary.

 

At the very least, it would seem that Sandusky had to have had the thought that this person could quite possibly be involved in the trial.

 

Also, per the NBC report, Victim No. 7 testified that Sandusky and his wife left several messages over the phone trying to get in contact with him. This was also after the grand jury case was opened.

 

This is a giant pile of evidence suggesting that Sandusky was attempting to tamper with this case. It is hard to think of any reasoning the defense could offer to sway people to believe otherwise.”

 

(5)Sports Illustrated was one of many AP-distributed reports on December 6 that another victim has come forward. “A lawyer says a 19-year-old man has filed a complaint with state police alleging he was sexually abused by Jerry Sandusky on the Penn State campus in 2004.

 

Charles Schmidt said Tuesday the client came to his law firm after Sandusky was charged with sexually abusing eight children over a 15-year period. The new accuser was first reported by WHP-TV in Harrisburg.

 

Schmidt says his client was dealing with the death of his mother and suffering emotional issues at the time of the single, alleged incident. The lawyer says the two met through Sandusky’s Second Mile charity.

 

Schmidt said his law firm is conducting its own investigation into the client’s claims.

 

A message seeking comment from Sandusky’s lawyer, Joseph Amendola, was not immediately returned.”

 

(6) Associated Press (Genaro C. Armas and MaryClaire Dale) is reporting on December 7 that Sandusky applied to Juanita college to be a volunteer football coach in 2010 and was denied because their background check revealed that he was being investigated by a high school that had previously volunteered with.

 

“A year and a half after an investigation began into Jerry Sandusky’s contact with young boys, the former Penn State assistant football coach applied for a volunteer coaching job at a central Pennsylvania college but was denied the job after a background check.