BrentMusburger wrote:One thing I couldn't really find an answer to yet was why boys were even on the University campus? Like what were the parents knowingly dropping them off for? Were they youth football camps?
You can read the whole
Grand Jury Presentment if you want all the gory details, but beware, it gets pretty disgusting. I'll summarize as best as I can here:
Sandusky started
The Second Mile way back in 1977. It started as a group foster home that he ran with his wife, but eventually grew into this massive non-profit organization that provides all sorts of services for troubled teens in Pennsylvania.
The first time he got caught was way back 1998 (when he was still coaching), when a mother came to campus, accompanied by campus police, and confronted him. She asked him to never shower with her son, or any of the other boys again, but he refused. Nothing ever became of the complaint, and the police never pursued the matter further, nor did the university or
Joe Paterno.
Sandusky resigned his position in 1999 after
Paterno told him he would not replace him as head coach. However, he was given "emeritus" status at the university, and allowed to continue his work with young boys at the Penn State facilities even after reports of the 2002 incident, in which
Sandusky allegedly raped a 10-year-old boy in the football locker room showers. He had an office, and full access to Penn State facilites up until last week when this all broke.
Basically,
Sandusky developed this routine of meeting the boys via
The Second Mile, and taking on a personal mentoring relationship with them. He would take them to penn state and philadelphia eagles games, team functions, banquets, pretty much everything. He CONSTANTLY had young boys with him. Staying with him in the team hotel, traveling on road trips, working out at the team facilities. How in the world this did not raise any red flags is beyond me.
Over time, he would test the waters as to how far he could go sexually. When they stayed at his house, he would get into bed with them and wrestle and "crack their backs" by lying on them and bear hugging them "so that they could sleep well". If this was met with little resistance he would step it up a notch, often pushing kissing, and eventually oral sex.
As his relationship with these boys continuend to progress, he developed another habit of bringing them to the penn state campus to "work out", only to tell them that they had to shower together afterwards, where multiple brutal rapes are reported to have occurred.
That's basically all the more I want to type about this, but if you really want all of the disgusting detailes, read the whole
Grand Jury Presentment.
How in the world this guy got away with bringing young boys on road trips, staying in the team hotel with them before home games (so he could rape them), and constantly having different young boys around him at all times is fucking beyond me. What a colossal human tragedy at the expense of protecting a football program.
He even had his boys play parts in his instructional video's:
[youtube]aFW0WCUEOqc&start=105[/youtube]
#13 in the video is one of the victims listed in the
Grand Jury Presentment.
So fucking sad.
[quote="BrentMusburger"]One thing I couldn't really find an answer to yet was why boys were even on the University campus? Like what were the parents knowingly dropping them off for? Were they youth football camps?[/quote]
You can read the whole [url=http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/uploadedFiles/Press/Sandusky-Grand-Jury-Presentment.pdf]Grand Jury Presentment[/url] if you want all the gory details, but beware, it gets pretty disgusting. I'll summarize as best as I can here:
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Sandusky]Sandusky[/url] started [url=http://www.thesecondmile.org/welcome.php]The Second Mile[/url] way back in 1977. It started as a group foster home that he ran with his wife, but eventually grew into this massive non-profit organization that provides all sorts of services for troubled teens in Pennsylvania.
The first time he got caught was way back 1998 (when he was still coaching), when a mother came to campus, accompanied by campus police, and confronted him. She asked him to never shower with her son, or any of the other boys again, but he refused. Nothing ever became of the complaint, and the police never pursued the matter further, nor did the university or [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Paterno]Joe Paterno[/url].
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Sandusky]Sandusky[/url] resigned his position in 1999 after [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Paterno]Paterno[/url] told him he would not replace him as head coach. However, he was given "emeritus" status at the university, and allowed to continue his work with young boys at the Penn State facilities even after reports of the 2002 incident, in which [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Sandusky]Sandusky[/url] allegedly raped a 10-year-old boy in the football locker room showers. He had an office, and full access to Penn State facilites up until last week when this all broke.
Basically, [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Sandusky]Sandusky[/url] developed this routine of meeting the boys via [url=http://www.thesecondmile.org/welcome.php]The Second Mile[/url], and taking on a personal mentoring relationship with them. He would take them to penn state and philadelphia eagles games, team functions, banquets, pretty much everything. He CONSTANTLY had young boys with him. Staying with him in the team hotel, traveling on road trips, working out at the team facilities. How in the world this did not raise any red flags is beyond me.
Over time, he would test the waters as to how far he could go sexually. When they stayed at his house, he would get into bed with them and wrestle and "crack their backs" by lying on them and bear hugging them "so that they could sleep well". If this was met with little resistance he would step it up a notch, often pushing kissing, and eventually oral sex.
As his relationship with these boys continuend to progress, he developed another habit of bringing them to the penn state campus to "work out", only to tell them that they had to shower together afterwards, where multiple brutal rapes are reported to have occurred.
That's basically all the more I want to type about this, but if you really want all of the disgusting detailes, read the whole [url=http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/uploadedFiles/Press/Sandusky-Grand-Jury-Presentment.pdf]Grand Jury Presentment[/url].
How in the world this guy got away with bringing young boys on road trips, staying in the team hotel with them before home games (so he could rape them), and constantly having different young boys around him at all times is fucking beyond me. What a colossal human tragedy at the expense of protecting a football program.
He even had his boys play parts in his instructional video's:
[youtube]aFW0WCUEOqc&start=105[/youtube]
#13 in the video is one of the victims listed in the [url=http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/uploadedFiles/Press/Sandusky-Grand-Jury-Presentment.pdf]Grand Jury Presentment[/url].
So fucking sad.