Posted on 01/08/2012 6:54:26 PM PST by Libloather
Jerry Sandusky's book, 'Touched,' helped police investigation into alleged sex crimes
By SARA GANIM, The Patriot-News
Published: Sunday, January 08, 2012, 12:01 AM
The investigation of Jerry Sandusky took three years.
And it took Sandusky himself — through the pages of his autobiography, “Touched” — to help police find Victims 3, 4, 5 and 7.
At the end of 2009, police had spent almost a year trying to corroborate claims by a single boy — a 17-year-old Clinton County teen later known as Victim 1 — who had alleged years of sexual abuse by Penn State’s legendary defensive coach. Only one state police investigator had been tasked to handle the case.
Finally, they discovered a campus police report from 1998, in which a boy had said he was forced to take a naked shower with Sandusky in the Penn State locker room and was inappropriately touched. With that, investigators learned the key had been right in front of them.
(Excerpt) Read more at pennlive.com ...
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“The title of the book. Just wow.”
Ranks down there with Fat Ted’s naming his dog “Splash.”
What’s that Freudians say? “The subconscious never lies.”
Through the window in the newspaper vending machine today I saw a headline in the Harrisburg Sunday Patriot News: VICTIM #6 WAS KEY TO SANDUSKY INVESTIGATION, to paraphrase. Thought I’d read about it later in my paper at home, but there was nothing about the case in the York Sunday News, online or anywhere else that I could find. Wondering if anything new has been discovered in the case?
On Amazon, the book has 160 reviews. Eighteen reviewers gave it five stars, and the remainder one star.
Here's one of the five-star reviews (72 of 91 found it helpful):
This book touched me in more ways than I can recall. When I read "Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story," I felt as if Jerry's masculine, sculpted hands were literally reaching out and caressing my succulent, 26 year old body. The words captivated my very imagination, my soul and ... my hands.
If you are interested in this, be sure to read Fun With Pedophiles: The Best of Baiting and see how you can improve your touching performance.
Here's another (36 of 50 found it helpful):
This book cums highly recommended by NAMBLA. Coach Sandusky has proven that he is not only interested in helping young boys become men on the football field, but he takes an interest in their personal hygiene as well. He stands firmly behind all his young future-students. Don't drop the soap, boys.
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Those reviews were a riot. Wrong but a funny nonetheless.
“We have to do better than this. “
And we need to start that process by shutting down PSU’s Athletic Department for say five years and letting every single employee go! Let’s just see if PSU can function as a true institution of higher learning without athletics. As for the people in Pleasant Valley, they are a bunch of sick bastards if they think that PSA football and JoePa and all the various and assorted creeps that sought to sweep this unspeakable activity “under the rug” for the benefit of PSU’s “football program” deserve to get a pass.
I love it when irony drips.
Saw Paterno’s son being interviewed today, still in total denial.
The story says Sandusky turned the boy over to a representative from The Second Mile, which had already been told about Sandusky and boys in at least 1998 (its general counsel, Wendell Courtney, was alerted) and 2002 (it's director, Jack Raykovitz, was told by Penn State).
But - were The Second Mile activities being run out of Penn State football offices? Why didn't Raykovitz say anything or take steps to bar Sandusky from The Second Mile?
Wait. I may know the answer to the second question. Raykovitz and his wife were employed by The Second Mile. There was a financial motive not to expose Sandusky and ruin The Second Mile. In 2009, Raykovitz earned about $133,000 from The Second Mile and his wife Katherine Genovese earned about $100,000. Almost a quarter million a year from a charity to help at-risk children. In Happy Valley, where Paterno's salary was only $800K or so (yes, he made less than $1 million as a base).
Jay said that Joe Paterno wants to tell his side of the story when he recovers from his lung cancer treatment.
There are cynics who think he should have told his side of the story in 2002 . . . to the police.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/01/penn_state_president_never_rea.html
Penn State president never read the news reports about Sandusky investigation
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/01/former_penn_state_trustee_crit.html
Former Penn State trustee criticizes ‘secretive’ body
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/01/penn_state_presidents_denial_o.html
Penn State president’s denial of knowledge of Sandusky reports is flimsy, PR expert says
Gricar is the former Centre County district attorney who went missing in 2005 and was declared dead in July. It isn’t known why Gricar decided not to prosecute....Think...Murtha.
Moreover, the son acts like Sandusky may be innocent, as if he hasn't already admitted taking showers with boys.
reported Sandusky to the police after the 2002 rape....They MAY have, but to Penn State Police. The report would have been covered up. Maybe the State Police, but then again there would have been massive pressure to cover it up.
that particular accusation certainly is an aberration from the other cases.
At least when you compare it to what we know at this point.
Maybe others will come forward with something similar to this - or Jerry was being unusually bold that day.
Running to a half-day appointment. Will respond later today.
The grand jury presentment says McQueary, Paterno, Curley, and Schultz did not report it to any law enforcement. Not the University Police or College Park police.
Schultz was the Sr. Vice President of Business & Finance. The head of the University Police reported to him on an organizational chart; some Penn State apologists therefore say he was the "head of the police." But that's like says Obama is the head of the FBI because the head of the FBI reports to him.
Also, football reports to Schultz, through Curley. So if Schulz was the head of the police he was also the head of football. The statue shouldn't be of Joe Paterno, it should be of the head of football, Gary Schultz. < / sarcasm>
It was summer. And Jerry had already gotten a free pass when caught in the act of child rape. Why not be bold about taking a boy into the office and raping him? What were they going to do? Take away his keys again?
He [Sandusky ] does not think that anything is going to happen to him. For that matter, neither do I. I would hope that it would, but, I am not expecting anything[ other it costing him some money for lawyers]. My personal opinion is that he needs to meet with a tall tree and short rope and have about six feet of air between the bottoms of his shoes and the ground. And leave him for the buzzards and crows.
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