Joe Paterno to resign at end of season

[xoxoxoBruce]

There was no guaranty she would do well if she did try.
Did he push her or tell her what was at stake and let her decide?

[Lamplighter]

Since no one else has yet put 30 on this tread...


NY Times Editorial
The Sandusky Rape Verdict
Published: October 9, 2012

The case of Jerry Sandusky over the serial raping of young boys
while a coach in Penn State’s football program ended Tuesday as it began: in denial and delusion.

“In my heart, I know I did not do these alleged disgusting acts,” Mr. Sandusky said
in a call from the jailhouse to the Pennsylvania State radio station Monday night.
“My wife has been my only sex partner, and that was after marriage.”

Mr. Sandusky repeated the gist of that bloodcurdling statement on Tuesday before
Judge John Cleland of the Centre County Court in Pennsylvania, who sentenced him
to 30 to 60 years in prison on 45 convictions of raping, abusing
and assaulting 10 boys over many years.<snip>

Previously reported in NY Times...

“I’m not going to sentence you to centuries,” Judge Cleland said to Sandusky.
“It makes no sense for a 68-year-old man.
This sentence will put you in prison for the rest of your life.”

Judge Cleland added that the case, which shook Penn State and called into question
the role of major college sports on campus, was, in the end, “a story of betrayal.”

“You abused the trust of those who trusted you,” he said.

30

[Lamplighter]

I guess it was only 29.5...

Reuters
1019/12
Ex-Penn State coach Sandusky appeals child sex convictions

(Reuters) - Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky appealed
his child sex abuse convictions on Thursday, with his lawyers arguing
they lacked time to prepare for the high-profile case.

Sandusky's attorneys also asked that the convictions be tossed out or
a new trial be held because prosecutors lacked evidence to convict him
and statutes of limitations had run out.

Statues of limitations have a place, but not in sex abuse cases against kids.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Kind of makes me wonder if he's so fucked up he really thinks he's innocent.

[Lamplighter]

Some stories and events never die...

ESPN's Keith Olbermann eviscerates Penn State
USA Today
Nick Schwartz
1/17/15

“In short the NCAA says that in exchange for an agreement that the $60 million dollars the school was fined will be spent only in Pennsylvania to address child abuse there, the 112 wins that had been stricken from the records of the school — including the 111 wins erased from the record of coach Joe Paterno, all the victories after the first time police were called by a parent about Sandusky showering with their child and Penn State’s damnable coverup really began — all those victories will now be restored and Paterno will again become the winningest coach in major college football history, because of course, he was the real victim here.
<snip>
It is hard to believe that the NCAA and the school could take the most nauseating, the most horrifying, the most indefensible institutionalization of corruption in American sports — the Jerry Sandusky scandal — and make it worse, but today they just did.”

[Undertoad]

Agreed. They just made it worse. Let's have another fight over this, shall we? Let's revisit the whole thing, revisit the victims, the parents, the coaches, the students, let's just focus on nothing else for no good reason and see if that makes everything better.

[Griff]

Is he pissed because PA taxpayers are not on the hook to pay for child abuse programs in Connecticut?