Sadly, given that the charity was targeted at local under-privileged and at-risk youth in the community, the victims are most likely still in that community (except for the ones who couldn't testify because they're overseas serving in the military). Bernstein's phrase "the cult of apologists" is apt and there's already some victim blaming going on. No: no one I've seen has talked about how the seven and ten year olds must have been just asking for it, but I've been on message boards where people were blaming their parents for not reporting the abuse.
... except look at how well reporting worked for Victim 6's mother. Oh wait, most of the people I've talked to who are insisting on JoePa's innocence outright refuse to read the indictment. I suspect the rioters haven't bothered either. Why bother to look at the evidence of a two year State Attorney General's investigation when you can blame "the media" for wanting to bring down their hero. The media's persecuting poor "legendary coach" Joe Paterno because they hate... umm... uh... well, you know how evil "the media" are. They hate puppies or something. Let's overturn a TV van!
Like you, I prefer to think that, because otherwise who the hell are these kids and how did our culture manage to screw up their priorities this badly?
(The Catholic Church comparisons are starting to crop up -- I've been avoiding making them because I don't want to muddle this issue, but Pennsylvania had some of the worst cases in that cover-up as well. And given the friendship of our dear, frothy friend Rick Santorum to many of the key figures in the cover-up, I'm just waiting for him to pop up insisting that the real issue isn't covering up child molestation, it's that it was an evil GAY child molester. Gay culture, that's the enemy - not the completely whacked out power that Div. I NCAA football teams have on their campuses and in their communities.)
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... except look at how well reporting worked for Victim 6's mother. Oh wait, most of the people I've talked to who are insisting on JoePa's innocence outright refuse to read the indictment. I suspect the rioters haven't bothered either. Why bother to look at the evidence of a two year State Attorney General's investigation when you can blame "the media" for wanting to bring down their hero. The media's persecuting poor "legendary coach" Joe Paterno because they hate... umm... uh... well, you know how evil "the media" are. They hate puppies or something. Let's overturn a TV van!
Like you, I prefer to think that, because otherwise who the hell are these kids and how did our culture manage to screw up their priorities this badly?
(The Catholic Church comparisons are starting to crop up -- I've been avoiding making them because I don't want to muddle this issue, but Pennsylvania had some of the worst cases in that cover-up as well. And given the friendship of our dear, frothy friend Rick Santorum to many of the key figures in the cover-up, I'm just waiting for him to pop up insisting that the real issue isn't covering up child molestation, it's that it was an evil GAY child molester. Gay culture, that's the enemy - not the completely whacked out power that Div. I NCAA football teams have on their campuses and in their communities.)