The Sandusky Files

I've let it go long enough. After hearing Jerry Sandusky try and profess his innocence in an interview, I got goose bumps from hearing this sick son-of-a-bitch's voice. This Penn State scandal is turning into easily the biggest sports scandal in history. This is bigger than the 1919 Black Sox Scandal, anything Pete Rose has ever done, bigger than the steroid scandal in baseball, and bigger than any of the multitudes of women that Tiger Woods was slaying. This episode far transcends sports and shows that true evil is not a fabrication of one's mind but could be right down the road at your local collegiate gridiron.

I feel as if the only way that you can be fully informed is to make sure that you read the Grand Jury Testimony, (for the rest of this post we'll refer to this as GJT) before anything that I write. It's long, descriptive, bone-chilling with some of the most heinous immoral acts being committed, and I believe this is only the tip of the iceberg. The only way I can think to tackle such a topic is to break it down by involvement, let's start with Beelzebub himself.

Jerry Sandusky

After reading the GJT there is only one word that is coming to my mind regarding Jerry Sandusky, evil. Pure, unadulterated evil. Look I'm in the business of believing the old "innocent until proven guilty" mantra but as far as I'm concerned the testimony of a Grand Jury is enough proof for me to gather an educated opinion.

Just in the GJT there were seven victims, (he was arrested for 40 counts over a span of 15 years) all of them associated with the Second Mile organization, a charity that he founded in 1977. This is an organization that takes "at-risk" youths and tries to give them advantages that their home life would not afford them. Think about it, what better place to try and prey on young people, in this case boys, than ones that have a broken home life more specifically boys with no male presence at home.

This man used his position of power, Defensive Coordinator at PSU and founder of Second Mile, to try and force his way into these boys' lives. Buying them gifts, taking them to games, giving them money, being a "mentor" and even going so far as to guarantee one of his Victims a spot on PSU's football team as a walk-on.

The one constant with every victim in the GJT was, the Second Mile. Seems like the perfect cover-up for a pedophile no? Start a foundation to help kids when really it's just a feeding ground for a pervert to stalk and victimize children.

Back in 1998 he was brought up on charges for showering with his first victim but it never went to court. Seems strange, no? Maybe it's because the DA on the case went mysteriously missing in 2005 and had his computer destroyed. Don't believe me? Check it out. You would be foolish not to think these things are related. Maybe district attorney Ray Gricar got really close to uncovering a bombshell and Sandusky was having none of it. Sounds like something out of Scorcese's playbook.

Mark Madden also reported on Dennis and Callahan that an investigative report is being done on the Second Mile that pointed to him "pimping out young kids to rich donors".

Joe Paterno

Joe Paterno was an assistant at Penn State all the way back to 1950, but has been the Head Coach since 1966. Jerry Sandusky had been on his staff since 1969. You can't run the kind of program that Paterno has at least portrayed he runs, (a totalitarian program, where he knows everything that goes on, think Big Brother in 1984) and not know what you had as a person in your Defensive Coordinator for the last 30 damn years.

I'm not going to libel Joe Paterno, not yet anyway, and say he was diddling children as well because that's not what this is about. What this seems most likely about is legacy. The Legacy of Joe Paterno. He knew it was going on, he knew all of it was going on, but he was focused on one thing, himself. So he did what any narcissist would do, sweep it under the rug and put on a happy face for the crowd,

The problem with this was that too many people started finding out about the black mark on Joe Paterno's staff. Joe Paterno was made aware of Sandusky's acts of indiscretion and to Paterno's credit he did tell his superior, but when his superior essentially gave Sandusky a slap on the wrist by barring him from the showers with children he should have done more. A lot more.

There are certainly a few questions that Paterno needs to answer:

• Why was Sandusky still allowed to recruit for PSU? He was in the facility as late as the fall of 2011 using PSU showers (this time not with young boys).
  


• What exactly was said to Paterno by McQueary?
  


• Why not involve the police?
  


• When did Paterno first find this out, because what McQueary witnessed was probably not the first act of this nature?
  

It also seems strange that all of this suddenly comes out the day after Joe Paterno gets win number 409, one victory more than Eddie Robinson, to take sole possession of first place on the all-time list.

Mike McQueary

Mike McQueary is slowly being crucified, when in reality he isn't the villain here.

Mike McQueary according to the GJT walked into the locker room at around 9:30 PM to drop off a pair of shoes when he heard "rhythmic slapping" coming from the shower. We all know the kind of sounds he's talking about, skin on skin. He peered into the shower to see a young boy who looked to be about 10-11 years old with his palms on the shower wall and a naked Sandusky behind him. I will not elaborate any further.

Immediately he left, called his father, and left the premises. Here's his first mistake, at the time, McQueary was 27 not very recently removed from playing college football and Jerry Sandusky was in his mid-50's. He should have confronted Sandusky. More than confronted, he should have beaten him within an inch of his life, but at the very least he should have gotten the child out of harm's way. He didn't do that.

He told his superior, point for McQueary, but when his superior really didn't do much of anything either he should have gone to the authorities. If he was worried about his job it shouldn't matter. It is about moral integrity. He would have been made a hero and would have found work somewhere else.

The simple fact that he didn't help a clearly, helpless child was a cowardice act. Not punishable by law, but cowardice. It is about respect for yourself and fellow man, and McQueary is seriously lacking in this department.

Penn State Custodial Staff

On different occasions throughout the GJT, members of the custodial staff at PSU saw Sandusky committing the acts in question, and although they reported them to their superiors they did nothing further when their superiors really did nothing further. They didn't commit a crime, but like McQueary they needed to do more. One of the custodians who alleged that Sandusky performed oral sex on a young boy can no longer testify because he suffers from Dementia…the plot thickens.

Penn State Board of Directors

The Penn State Board did the right thing in firing Paterno. They need to cleanse the entire football program. Everyone on the staff needs to be gone. It doesn't matter if they had nothing to do with it. If you want to show fans, boosters, and potential recruits that you mean business you need to purify the water at State. Anyone and anything affiliated with the former regime needs to go.

I also don't like that they played last Saturday or for the rest of the season. This is so far beyond football that they should not be playing. If the players had any integrity they wouldn't want to don the PSU colors either. This will affect players that have scholarships for the next year and incoming recruits. Most recruits were allowed to back out of PSU if they had already committed to PSU because JoePa is no longer going to be there. But the NCAA should allow the players to transfer to another school without affecting any of their eligibility statuses.

Conspiracy Theory(s)

After listening to the Mark Madden interview (referenced above) in its entirety, the whole notion of a cover-up makes the most sense. Madden noted that the timeline works out perfectly. Sandusky was "fired" and they offered this up in exchange for a cover-up. But why are they offering this. Why are they so attached to this monster?

The Second Mile is the key to everything here. This could very well have been basically a petting zoo for pedophiles, sorry for being graphic.

Maybe I can answer, in part at least, the questions that Paterno should be answering

• Why was Sandusky still allowed to recruit for PSU? Paterno knew about everything from the start and is/was always very much affiliated with Sandusky. Maybe the totalitarian view is a lot closer to the truth than previously thought. I don't want to call PSU "the Mob" but maybe it's like that. Maybe Paterno is Corrado Soprano Jr. to Sandusky's Tony Soprano. These guys have a couple of legitimate-seeming ventures (PSU Football and Second Mile) but are doing the most odious acts behind closed doors that no one else knows about. Joe Paterno has a cult-like following, Penn State clearly was covering everything up for whatever was going on behind closed doors on the football team, and why would someone let a coach run a program for that long without 1, winning a national championship since 1986 and 2, if there wasn't something fishy going on in there the entire time?
  


• What exactly was said to Paterno by McQueary? Ultimately this is "he said, she said". But I bet McQueary was truthful when he went to Paterno back in 1998 but then realized the kind of world that he was getting into. Perhaps the reason that he didn't say anymore was due to one thing, Money. Penn State is a monolith. There is over 95,000 students enrolled at State College, that means if you multiply it by 20K (the median of in-state and out of state students, just for arguments sake) you're looking at a 190-million dollar establishment without even taking in what athletics or anything else is bringing into the school for money. So they could afford to offer McQueary some hush money, but now that everything else is coming out it's time for him to save face.
  


• Why not involve the police? Simple, money. JoePa was making more than just his salary, no doubt about it. He was getting whatever he wanted, when he wanted it, but involving the police would have crushed his operation with The Second Mile, which is a charity but is also bringing in plenty of money. If the accusation of "pimping out young kids" is true, you're looking at some of the most detestable stuff in the history of mankind, and what is worse yet, is that it was probably lining their pockets with more money than they could dream about. Because the warped individuals that would want to abuse these innocent children would pay a premium to do it and not be caught.
  

In summation, I hope this issue doesn't go to court. As people have seen with OJ and Casey Anthony all you have to do is put doubt in the mind of a jury that these acts took place and they will go scot-free. There is clearly a lot of money involved in whatever is going on here.

As if moral fiber wasn't already dwindling in this case, there's this excellent character whom is representing Jerry Sandusky. Jerry Sandusky's attorney clearly feels like he can plant that seed in a jury's mind for him to be able to plead absolute innocence, because he is going to have the "victim" in question from '98 up on the stand. How does a victim give his deposition in the GJT, then all of a sudden have a testimony that will credit Sandusky and damn the rest of the victims?

I'll let Randy Moss' words speak for me, "Straight cash, homie!"

Stay Tuned

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