David Haugh first wrote of the Penn State rape young boys scandal that was permitted to go on for years.

Sandusky story a black eye for Penn State, Paterno

Statement suggests legendary coach might have been as out of touch as many suspected

Fer Christs' sake, he's old, he's a crip, he's stayed a damn sight longer on the job than he probably ought to have; ya' THINK an 85-year old might be just a tad out of touch?

David Haugh's In the Wake of the News

5:49 AM CST, November 7, 2011

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"I wish I were dead.'' — Jerry Sandusky in May 1998.

This statement is a crock of shit. If he really wished he were dead, then he ought to have gone out, bought a hand gun, loaded it, put the barrel in his mouth, and pulled the trigger. Easy fucking job. What he really meant to say (and, yes, I know it is impolite to impute motive) was this: "I wish I hadn't got caught. I wish things could go back to being the way before I was caught, so I can keep on buggering little boys, because, that is what the universe compels me to do. Sick fuck. Go to jail - short eyes are accorded very special treatment there.

Two detectives from local police agencies overheard former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky admit to the mother of an 11-year-old boy that Sandusky gave her son a naked bear hug while taking a shower in a campus locker room.

What the fuck is an 11-year-old boy doing taking a shower in a campus locker room? Who's minding the store? Who was supposed to be watching out for the 11-year old boy?

"I was wrong," Sandusky said, according to a Pennsylvania grand jury document released Saturday. "I wish I could get forgiveness. I wish I were dead."

That cry for help came 13 years ago. Nobody heard it.

That was no fuckin' cry for help. That was the words of a master manipulator, one who spent a lifetime honing his skills at seducing young boys into being naked with him. Those are the desperate words of a man desperate to ESCAPE PUNISHMENT for illegal conduct. You wish you were dead? Hell, ass hole, we ALL wish you had died then and there; would have saved the state room and board for the last 13 years; would have saved other 11-year old boys from the trauma of you violating their bodies; violating their trust; you disgusting piece of shit. Jail the child-fucker!

For reasons that remain inexplicable, no charges were filed after that investigation and nothing changed, so Sandusky was free to allegedly prey on more innocent boys.

Inexplicable my ass. His "I wish I were dead" schtick worked, and he fooled enough of the people that one time, AND, having gotten out of it once, there was certainly no motivation for him to change his young-boy-raping ways; after all, the lesson learned was: "If I sound contrite enough, and verbally wish death upon myself, people will forgive me, so that I may continue in my boy-raping ways. WHOOPEE! PARTAY DOWN!

Do you see what we do to our children? Kobe Bryant had to pay a higher price, and not, ostensibly, he's not assuming everything in a skirt wants his big dick in one of their orifices. Ben Rothlesberger, the serial rapist of 19-year old women, who doesn't quite get the meaning of "N. O." was banned for six games. No fuckin' charges filed? What? File charges and impugn the name of Penn State University? Tarnish the legacy of Joe Paterno? Hell no. We just won't file charges, and, surely, it will all go away.

Dumb fux from Pennsylvania - no, wait, academia. Ostrich folks, heads in the sand, their brains have moved upwards towards their ass. This is NOT a pretty sight.

For reasons Joe Paterno will have to live with forever, Sandusky kept his job and JoePa kept wearing his trademark, thick-rimmed glasses that apparently allowed him to see only what he wanted.

The Bears travel to Philadelphia for a pivotal game against the Eagles on Monday, but in Pennsylvania the most important football-related story unfolds in State College. Penn State didn't play a game Saturday, yet an opponent that Paterno likely cannot beat reared its ugly head: the law.

Umm .. David, do you mean to tell us that Joey P broke the law? I've read the article and this is, assuredly, NOT the case.

Sandusky, 67, was released on $100,000 bail after being arraigned on 40 criminal counts related to charges he sexually abused eight boys. Penn State athletic director Tim Curley and university administrator Gary Schultz face counts of perjury and failure to report child abuse. Significant by his absence in the indictment is Paterno, the most powerful man on campus who might have stopped the accused serial pedophile on his staff by working more aggressively with police.

Weasel words. "might have stopped the accused serial pedophile on hi8s staff:" the only way he might have stopped him is if he had cut the guy's dick off. And he SHOULD have. After all, Sandowski's crime was not his raping of young boys, our society cares not one wit about it, unless looks to explode and bring unwanted attention down on the University, the Atheltic Dept, the Coach, not necessarily in that order.

Neither Paterno nor anybody else in authority did. As a result, Happy Valley has become Creepy Valley.

Oh, we can pretty much make book on this: That Happy Valley was Creepy Valley long before this scandal ever hit the light of day.

Paterno's head-in-the-sand approach permitted Sandusky to take along a teenager identified as Victim 4 on bowl trips the two football seasons following the '98 investigation, including to San Antonio for the 1999 Alamo Bowl in plain view of university personnel. It was in a hotel room there, according to the attorney general's disturbing 23-page "finding of fact," that Sandusky threatened to send the boy home if he didn't succumb to his sexual advances. Sick.

Wonder if Sandusky passed off the kid as his "nephew." Wonder if he raped any of his relatives kids? Or neighborhood kids?

Undeterred, Sandusky continued the pattern after retiring when, in 2000, a janitor reported to a superior seeing the coach alone in the showers of the football facility with a young boy — Victim 8. No charges resulted and Sandusky still enjoyed his all-access privileges on campus.

Nope. Not even wanting to kill himself dettered him from buggering up again (and again, and again, and again ....)

In a town fueled by college football, nobody dared disgrace an acolyte of Paterno, especially a man who opened a home for troubled boys in 1977 under the ruse he wanted to help them.

What sloppy writing. "A town ruled by college football" my ass. college football is a thing, not a person; and a thing can't rule; only human beings ever rule, and some of them MUCH more badly than others of them. Far more accurate writing would have said, "In a town where college football is treated like a religion."

Excuse me while I puke.

This is my favorite sport's column paragraph of all time. YES, it IS disgusting; it IS sickening.

All the prior knowledge of Sandusky's predatory tendencies only makes a March 2002 incident, the one with facts damning enough to end the Paterno Era, the hardest to fathom. Around 9:30 on a Friday night, a Penn State graduate assistant walked into the football locker room where he observed a boy he guessed was 10 being sexually assulted by Sandusky.

And what does the P.S. grad ass do next?

The shocked grad assistant quickly left,

QUICKLY LEFT? A helpless human being, a child was being raped, and you fucking left? What kind of balls do you have you worhtless whinin' titty bitch? Go pull the raper's sad sorry ass OF the young boy, jerk off; Talk about failure to act appropriately under pressure!

called his dad and went to Paterno's house the next morning.

But, whatever you do, don't go over to chach's house at night - you'll wake up the senile over-rated jerk

Paterno waited 24 hours to meet with Curley.

Obviously taking Sandusky at his word, that he would shoot himself.

The grand jury narrative doesn't mention Paterno urgently calling law enforcement or trying to learn who the boy was so he could inform his parents. It describes Paterno, then 75, following protocol.

Okoay. So we might judge the protocol to be wrong. But here, Paterno is ritually cleansed - he did what was required of him. Probably, because the Law was called in, the head of the athletic dept was mostly trying to find

Not until a week and a half later was the graduate assistant summoned to retell the horrific tale to Curley and Schultz.

They kept waiting for Sandusky to kill himself, like he promised.

Paterno dodged legal jeopardy by reporting the allegation to his superior.

Dodged legal jeopardy? Not really. He went through the chain of command. Joe probably knows what happens to whistle blowers - ask Ron Ridenauer.

Ethically, Paterno stained a Hall of Fame career by not getting police involved after hearing a friend and ex-colleague with a history of allegations accused of raping a boy no older than one of JoePa's grandsons.

I'd say the grad student who should have yelled, "HEY Boy Raper - STOP THAT and then gone and pulled the peaderist off the kid has, to my mind more or an ethical lapse than Joe. ... That said, however, Paterno keeps the grand-kidde-raper on staff for ... what? How long?

Paterno issued a statement Sunday that expressed appropriate sympathy and suggested he might have been as out of touch as many suspected.

Okay, Dave, guess we have to take your word about the appropriate level of sympathy that can be expressed by words (talk is very cheap, here in the U.S.A.) but I really DO wish Sandusky had dusted his own sorry ass back in '98, like he kinda promised.

"If true, the nature and amount of charges made are very shocking to me and all Penn Staters," the statement read.

IF TRUE? you're fucking kidding me; okay, I get it; pro-forma; innocent until proven guilty and all that -- what about the kid he raped?

College football recruiters routinely ask parents to trust coaches with their children. I don't care if Sandusky is barred from campus, how can a Penn State coach have the gall to assure anything as long as Paterno remains in charge? Was university President Graham Spanier wearing Paterno's blinders when pledging "unconditional support" for Curley and Schultz?

A smart prez would, assuming holding onto his job is more important thatn consciende, morality, etc, etc, etc,

Sorry, Dr. Spanier, such heinous behavior and neglect calls for resignations, not indignation. Late Sunday, after Pennsylvania state senator Jeffrey Piccola called for the PSU board of trustees to investigate deeper, Curley and Schultz stepped down following an emergency meeting of the board.

Got the feeling Penn State's football program is down this season.

The NCAA, if it really legislates institutional control, could justify investigating a member institution where poor judgment offended common sensibilities more than any Miami rogue booster or Ohio State player with his hand out.

And Big Ten officials should demand the timely eradication of scandal from a once-proud program, Paterno's legacy be damned.

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