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Freeh Report on Penn State and the Sandusky Scandal Released Today
The Freeh Report on PSU ^ | 07/12/2012 | Louis Freeh

Posted on 07/12/2012 6:16:38 AM PDT by iowamark

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To: Flycatcher

Agreed. It just that simple.


41 posted on 07/12/2012 7:30:35 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: swpa_mom

Joe Paterno knew. And he did nothing. The report even stated that Paterno and crew contacted Sandusky to tell him about the allegations from Mike McQuerry. Paterno never even bothered to find out about the child, whether he was alive or not. His first act was to contact Sandusky, a man who Paterno knew was accused two years early of doing the same thing. No what I think, I think Sandusky killed that child he molested in the shower shortly after being tipped off by Paterno.


42 posted on 07/12/2012 7:30:49 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: outpostinmass2

That’s the other disturbing thing to consider, if indeed there was a “pedophile ring”, those don’t exist over a long period of time, without some bodies being buried somewhere.


43 posted on 07/12/2012 7:32:16 AM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: swpa_mom
In other words, you just want to defend the indefensible.
44 posted on 07/12/2012 7:32:25 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: fortheDeclaration

I believe Pennsylvania filed a bill or made a law recently making it a crime not to report child abuse.

Massachusetts had to place a law on the book after the Catholic priest molestations. We call it the Cardinal Law law.


45 posted on 07/12/2012 7:36:57 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: iowamark
There have been times recently that I have reconsidered the belief that the death penalty would be inappropriate in these cases.

It's a shame that this case wasn't prosecuted years ago, when Paterno might have been punished as well.

46 posted on 07/12/2012 7:38:17 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: swpa_mom
“Of course there will be lawsuits.

I suspect most of them will be settled to avoid lengthy trials.”

Hopefully the NCAA will sanction and expel PSU football for many many years. Joe P was an enabler; big time!

47 posted on 07/12/2012 7:47:58 AM PDT by captnorb
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To: captnorb

Every current PSU player should be allowed to transfer to other schools without having to sit out a year.


48 posted on 07/12/2012 7:52:14 AM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: swpa_mom
The Pennsylvania State University’s football program won’t be shut down. The football program didn’t molest the children, the former coach did. Jerry Sandusky met the children through a charity.

Jerry Sandusky was correctly found guilty and will go to prison.

The very important point you and some other Jo Pa and Penn State defenders are missing is that Sandusky’s predilections for sexually molesting young boys under his care and charge was not exactly an unknown to some Penn State officials, including Paterno going back to at least 1998. While Sandusky may have met his victims through Second Mile, he abused many of them while on the Penn State campus and during Penn State football games as acting as a Penn State employee in various parts of the country.

Paterno totally ruled Penn State and what he said went; whether that was covering up for football players engaged in on or off campus criminal offences; riding rough shod over university rules and other officials to keep those matters quiet and insisting on disciplining players himself by things such as merely making them clean up the stadium after a game when they should have been booted out of the university or even to have faced criminal charges, to, after testifying to the grand jury that after he (Paterno) reported Mclearys’ accusations to his superiors, had no further involvement what so ever when the emails in the Freech investigation indicates that Paterno did intervene after his initial report to his superiors, Curley and Schultz and ultimately Spanier, and contrary to his grand jury testimony he convinced them to go easy on Sandusky and not report his crimes to the authorities.

49 posted on 07/12/2012 8:07:14 AM PDT by MD Expat in PA
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To: Izzy Dunne

Judging from the lack of any (reported) offers from other Universities, strongly suspect many others outside of PSU had to have known something.


50 posted on 07/12/2012 8:17:59 AM PDT by Rational Thought
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To: swpa_mom

Sorry, but I did not see you getting any sort of personal attack. You have just chosen to defend the indefensible.

Have a nice day yourself. I am sure the victims wish they could “Have a nice day”


51 posted on 07/12/2012 8:29:32 AM PDT by ace2u_in_MD (You missed something...)
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To: swpa_mom; MissH
"Yes Sandusky was the criminal but by their inaction Joe Paterno, Mike McQueary and any other university staff who did not report the sexual assault of a child to the police are in my eyes just as responsible for the act and any that happened on campus after that date. Their inaction allowed Sandusky to continue and why? To save a precious sports program!"

MissH, you said it nicer than what comes to my mind, so I'll simply quote you and add:

I would be embarrassed and ashamed to be associated with Pedd State in any way - as a student, teacher, coach, janitor, etc.

swpa_mom - Do you really assign NO BLAME to Paterno??!! REALLY?!

52 posted on 07/12/2012 8:36:49 AM PDT by lucyblue
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To: swpa_mom

>> “Jerry Sandusky is the guilty one here.” <<

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Sandusky is the convicted one, but Penn State “University” ia the most guilty one here. They are an institution of sexual deviance, not education.

Sexual deviance permeates every element of that cesspool. Shut it down!


53 posted on 07/12/2012 8:44:31 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they were.)
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To: swpa_mom

Louis Freeh’s one of the good guys. Totally trust worthy - have faith in his work. Yeah, he’s that good.


54 posted on 07/12/2012 8:53:12 AM PDT by GOPJ (Marion Berry: 'If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate')
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To: swpa_mom; cweese; Izzy Dunne; iowamark

“The Pennsylvania State University’s football program won’t be shut down. The football program didn’t molest the children, the former coach did. Jerry Sandusky met the children through a charity.’

Mom, thou doest protest too much. The report correctly identifies the leaders of your revered university as enablers. They included Spanier and Paterno in that. Get over it...Penn State, the University, was responsible in many ways for the evil atrocity brought on innocent young boys by an evil pedophile, Jerry Sandusky. Spanier and Paterno were responsible. Spanier needs to be charged along with those already charged. It is time for you and others in Pennsylvania to come to grips with the stench that has been pouring out of (Un) Happy Valley.


55 posted on 07/12/2012 8:58:49 AM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders.)
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To: swpa_mom
JoPa and the rest of these people who supposedly “didn't know” left files and emails that very much prove that they did know. JoPa should be criminally and civilly liable for the actions those records show he took. As he is deceased, his estate is still liable.
56 posted on 07/12/2012 9:02:41 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: swpa_mom
Paterno knew what was going on and allowed it to continue. In fact, he facilitated it.

Pull down the statue and rename the library.

57 posted on 07/12/2012 9:09:55 AM PDT by starlifter (Pullum sapit)
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To: dfwgator

My thoughts exactly. Release all of the players now to transfer to another school and be immediately eligible to play.


58 posted on 07/12/2012 9:14:44 AM PDT by Marathoner 244
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To: iowamark

There is nothing new about this coverup. It has gone on in the Bay Area of San Fran for decades, in the Catholic church for centuries, and in every “gay” bar on the planet since the ancients. Same-sex rape of young boys is the part of the “gay” lifestyle yet remaining in the coprophile’s closet. Others in the Sandusky case stated that several of Sandusky’s victims were passed around the “gay community.” This same practice is not just prevalent in the gay community, it is a primary obsession in the gay community.

And by the way, this is not just pedophilia, it is pederasty, the same-sex rape of young boys by male homosexuals.


59 posted on 07/12/2012 10:06:31 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: swpa_mom
I think I understand your concern, but some things are bigger than one man's legacy and this is one of them.

While Sandusky is the real monster here, tt can't be stressed enough that PSU officials need to be held accountable for their part in this, too.

That accountability should best be in the form of shutting down the football program for a few years.

It's a no-brainer, actually.

60 posted on 07/12/2012 11:20:23 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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