National CCAI Shouldn’t Have Honored Sandusky for Angel in Adoption Day
If you do not live in the US or have been in a cave for the past few days, you may not have heard about the ever-growing Penn State child sex abuse scandal centering around Jerry Sandusky, the long-time defensive coordinator for their football team.
You may not know that Jerry Sandusky founded the organization The Second Mile in 1977, the year he began at Penn State. The Second Mile was originally a group foster home dedicated to helping troubled boys–45 of them in State College. Now it helps disadvantaged children in many areas of Pennsylvania and is involved in recruiting foster parents.
He also is an adoptive father of six.
In 2002, the year in which one of the many incidents occured, Presidential candidate and ex-Senator Rick Santorum nominated him for the CCAI Angels in Adoption Award. According to this article, ““Its philosophy is simple: It is easier to develop a child than to rehabilitate an adult,” read the citation from Santorum in an awards dinner program dated Sept. 24, 2002.
The citation was referring to The Second Mile, a charity launched by Sandusky in 1977 to serve disadvantaged children. It was first reported Wednesday by the Philadelphia Inquirer.”
“Santorum, a 1980 Penn State graduate, defended Paterno in an ABC News interview, saying he hoped the spreading sex-abuse scandal would not damage a coach who “served in such distinction for all these years.”
NO ONE associated in this conspiracy of a cover-up should be defended in any way, shape or form. Stay tuned for more on this topic…
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THIS should force an overhaul of our system. It is sick and wrong that this man got away with so much for so many years.
Next year he will be my nominee for the Demons in Adoption Award.