Well, it's been a difficult week in State College, PA, folks.

Yes, it is very sad. What are men who do this sort of thing thinking anyway?

The news is full of this recently. This particular story saddened me the most. He is an old guy and he was doing this as an OLD GUY. He had a great career at a prestigious university.
Frankly, I am more saddened for his family, than him. Right now they must hate him....later they will mourn.

 
Point is, they're NOT thinking. The disease is visceral and very likely stems from their having been

victims themselves. While it's no excuse, it's a cycle of pain that seems to be self perpetuating.

My bro is a psycho-therapist and deals with this sort of thing often. Terrifying what people are capable of doing to one another. We've discussed it at length. People who feel powerless have such an overwhelming need to regain control, the need will often manifest itself in utterly unacceptable behavior.

 
It will be interesting to see the outcome. Coach Paterno has consulted

with an attorney. He did report the incident to his superiors back then, but that may not be enough according to police or Paterno's conscious...

University politics may have played a hand, just like the scandal with the Archdiocese of Philadelphia that sickened me a few years ago and is still ongoing. Philadelphia's Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua alledgedly knew of the sexual crimes and reportedly covered them up... I used to drive past their beautiful albeit church of horrors and it gave me the heebie jeebies!

I just wonder how different the accused's actions might have been if it involved their own children...

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-pa-sex-priests-suspended,0,5123798.story

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Oh, boo hoo, for Coach Paterno. He is a disgrace who should be thrown in jail for allowing

this to continue. Young boys were raped by his second in command. He reported it...to who? The police? No!

Maybe it has been a "difficult" for the folks at Penn State. What about the boys who were abused? Seems the major concern is for an enabling coach who, like the "Holy See", ignored what was going on.

And the Penn State students? "How can they fire the coach over something like this?" I got sick to my stomach when I saw the protest and heard what they had to say. They were NOT expressing their outrage over what "Coach" Paterno allowed to continue for years to countless children.

 
Agree completely. Anything about this that doesn't focus on the victims and...

...what they have had to suffer through is just a load of baloney.

Matt Millen got it right. He's a former NFL legend and Penn State alum. He played for Sandusky (and Paterno, of course) and broke down in tears on the air while being interviewed. His basic message was simple. This is not about a coach, football, or Penn State and their fans. It is about the boys who were brutalized, and how we have failed to protect our children from evil like this.

Thank you, Mr. Millen.

Michael

 
The darkness of the human heart and the perpetuation of evil from generation...

...to generation must be difficult to deal with for your brother.

I remember reading an article on the police detectives assigned to child pornography task forces. They have to look at graphic and brutal images of children on practically a daily basis while trying to track these predatory animals down. It affects them terribly, and many of them end up in therapy, according to the article I saw.

How can we do things with such tenderness, beauty and kindness, and also have the capability to be brutal, cruel and viscious? An age-old question that still troubles me today.

Michael

 
Well said, Michaels.

I was outraged watching the student "protests." I'm used to sports trumping academia at universities, but sacrificing children to sports is a new low. This was a 10-year-old boy, there was an eye witness, and the school still covered it up to protect the football program.

 
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