That’s a great article. It clarifies a few points, and offers some information that hasn’t been written about in the media in the past few weeks. It specifies who came forward, how the prosecutors proceeded, and other things of that nature.
Does anyone on this board currently live in that area? I am trying to imagine just how much of a clusterfuck Sandusky’s court appearance on December 7th is going to be.
That definitely rebuts McQueary’s email. The thing that surprised me was that the local police say they don’t have jurisdiction on the Penn State campus. I don’t know if that’s common, but it doesn’t seem right.
University Park (the actual name of the main campus) has its own police force. They’re actually recognized by the state as a separate city-police organization, as if the campus itself were a separate city from State College (the town the campus is set in).
When you come right down to it, the campus is actually larger in area than State College proper.
Thank you. Excellent account of the investigation. The amount of dirt surfacing is almost beyond belief. As is the fact that so far there’s nary a good apple in the whole bunch.
Here’s yet another damming article; this one speaks to what Carmady has been trying to purvey to brickbacon – good on him for trying I guess. I’ve given up on all of the apologists – namely that Penn State & The Second Mile were close to being one and the same:
Not necessarily. It only says that the police have no record of McQueary reporting a sexual assault. However, Ockham’s razor indicates that he most likely didn’t report it.
I didn’t say it completely proves him wrong- I agree it’s possible he reported it and the report was lost or destroyed. But we’re agreed the most likely explanation is that he was full of it.
Yeah there is – the high school principal (or whatever layer of administration it was) who actually called the cops on Jerry Sandusky after the mother of victim #1 reported to him that her son had been abused. The thing that the excuse-makers are so eager to say couldn’t have been expected for Curley or Paterno or McQueary or any of them to do, somehow managed to get done. Must be a miracle or something.
And, arguably also the prosecutors who kept digging after it looked like the victim #1 case alone might be difficult to prosecute.
I don’t blame any of the players or former players. If they want to assume guilt over the things they did when they had no idea about Sandusky, it’s their prerogative, but I can’t see that any of them have any culpability here.
I think, in their shoes, I’d be thinking about all the interactions I’d had with Sandusky over the years and wondering did I miss something? Could I have done anything to stop him? Did I know any of his victims? It’s normal, and understandable that they might try and blame themselves, but of course they bear no culpability. It’s just hard to believe that someone you trusted could be such a monster.