Sandusky's a sick, evil, predator and I hope he rots. But that's not what scares me. What scares me is how many people caught him: and then let him go. This is beyond "willful ignorance". This is aiding and abetting. Sandusky has a wife, six adopted children, and fostered a number of children. Sen. Rick Santorum gave him an "Adoption Angel" award back in 2003. After two years of grand jury investigation, this may just be the start.
How bad -- how systemic was this cover up? The whole 1998 police investigation (where he admitted to fondling a ten year old in the Penn State showers but the DA declined to press charges) is fishy. Made even fishier by the fact that the D.A. disappeared without a trace in 2005. Before he disappeared, he googled "how to fry a hard drive". They found his laptop in a river weeks later. His hard drive was so thoroughly destroyed that the specialists who retrieved data from the wreckage of the Columbia space shuttle couldn't manage to recover any of his files.
And huh, right after the D.A. closed the investigation, Sandusky complained to the boy he was raping in May 1999 about Paterno refusing to promote him, so Sandusky "retires" but receives an emeritus position? But the football program at Penn State didn't tank until 2003, after the 2002 incident when they finally banned Sandusky from the locker room?
It's not the words - we have words, we need to use them. It's the dreadful arithmetic that scares me. It's the worry that one day this story will start with the question, "How much is a winning football program worth?"
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How bad -- how systemic was this cover up? The whole 1998 police investigation (where he admitted to fondling a ten year old in the Penn State showers but the DA declined to press charges) is fishy. Made even fishier by the fact that the D.A. disappeared without a trace in 2005. Before he disappeared, he googled "how to fry a hard drive". They found his laptop in a river weeks later. His hard drive was so thoroughly destroyed that the specialists who retrieved data from the wreckage of the Columbia space shuttle couldn't manage to recover any of his files.
And huh, right after the D.A. closed the investigation, Sandusky complained to the boy he was raping in May 1999 about Paterno refusing to promote him, so Sandusky "retires" but receives an emeritus position? But the football program at Penn State didn't tank until 2003, after the 2002 incident when they finally banned Sandusky from the locker room?
It's not the words - we have words, we need to use them. It's the dreadful arithmetic that scares me. It's the worry that one day this story will start with the question, "How much is a winning football program worth?"