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by geogeo » Mon Nov 14, 2011 7:21 pm
by justdrew » Mon Nov 14, 2011 7:28 pm
geogeo wrote:"Sandusky" brings up results, but the photo is gone. We will just have to hope that it was a fake. I screen-captured the evidence, but I don't know how to upload.
by Jeff » Mon Nov 14, 2011 8:56 pm
Passengers on the flight tell TMZ ... they walked up to the man at LaGuardia and he said he couldn't talk about the Penn State scandal. We then confirmed a Gerald Sandusky indeed had a boarding pass for the flight.
But when the plane landed in Detroit, we spoke with the man and he said in no uncertain terms ... he was not the guy.
As for the Gerald Sandusky who got the boarding pass ... we just don't know.
by sunny » Mon Nov 14, 2011 9:05 pm
Jeff wrote:TMZ explains. Kinda.Passengers on the flight tell TMZ ... they walked up to the man at LaGuardia and he said he couldn't talk about the Penn State scandal. We then confirmed a Gerald Sandusky indeed had a boarding pass for the flight.
But when the plane landed in Detroit, we spoke with the man and he said in no uncertain terms ... he was not the guy.
As for the Gerald Sandusky who got the boarding pass ... we just don't know.
Fishy.by Jeff » Mon Nov 14, 2011 11:30 pm
First Interview: 'I Shouldn't Have Showered With Those Kids'
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Sandusky talked to Bob Costas, and admitted ... "I have horsed around with kids. I have showered after workouts. I have hugged them and I have touched their legs without intent of sexual contact."
During the interview, which airs tonight on NBC's "Rock Center" ... Sandusky claims he is innocent ... and concedes, "I shouldn't have showered with those kids."
by Project Willow » Mon Nov 14, 2011 11:55 pm
More Accusations Surface in Penn State Abuse Case
Richard Perry/The New York Times
By MARK VIERA and JO BECKER
Published: November 14, 2011
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Close to 10 additional suspected victims have come forward to the authorities since the arrest of the former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky on Nov. 5 on 40 counts of sexually abusing young boys, according to people close to the investigation. The police are working to confirm the new allegations.
Centre Daily Times, via Associated Press
Jack Raykovitz was the chief executive of the Second Mile foundation for 28 years.
The news of additional accusations came on a day when Sandusky made his first extended public comments since his arrest, and the resignation of the chief executive of the Second Mile foundation, the charity founded by Sandusky, was made public. They were the latest developments in a case that has led to the ouster of several top university officials, including the football coach, Joe Paterno, and the president, Graham B. Spanier.
In a phone interview with Bob Costas that was broadcast Monday night on the NBC news program “Rock Center,” Sandusky said he was innocent of the charges against him and declared that he was not a pedophile. He did acknowledge, “I shouldn’t have showered with those kids.”
“I could say that I have done some of those things,” he said of the accusations against him. “I have horsed around with kids. I have showered after workouts. I have hugged them and I have touched their legs without intent of sexual contact.”
He added: “I enjoy being around children. I enjoy their enthusiasm. I just have a good time with them.”
For many years, that enthusiasm took public form in his work with the Second Mile, a charity to benefit needy children that Sandusky started in 1977. On Sunday, Jack Raykovitz, the chief executive of the foundation for 28 years, resigned. Raykovitz’s failure to do more to stop Sandusky has been a focal point of criticism.
The Pennsylvania attorney general has said that Sandusky used the Second Mile to prey on young boys and that he met each of the eight boys mentioned in the grand jury report through the foundation.
Raykovitz was reportedly informed by the former Penn State athletic director Tim Curley about a 2002 assault in which Sandusky is suspected of raping a young boy in a shower at Penn State’s football facility. Curley also advised Raykovitz that Sandusky was prohibited from bringing children onto the university’s campus from that point.
Sandusky resigned from daily involvement with the Second Mile last fall, saying he wanted to spend more time with his family.
Raykovitz, who is a licensed psychologist, said in a statement last week that Penn State officials had told him only that the graduate assistant who witnessed the attack was “uncomfortable” with seeing a young boy shower with Sandusky. That graduate assistant has since been identified as a current Penn State assistant, Mike McQueary, who has been placed on leave.
“I hope that my resignation brings with it the beginning of that restoration of faith in the community of volunteers and staff that, along with the children and families we serve, are the Second Mile,” Raykovitz said in a statement released by the charity.
In announcing Raykovitz’s resignation, which was accepted Sunday, the Second Mile also said that it would conduct an internal investigation to assess its policies, procedures and processes, and to make recommendations regarding its future operations.
The vice chairman of the organization, David Woodle, will be in charge of the Second Mile’s day-to-day operations.
Raykovitz made $132,923 from the Second Mile during the calendar year that ended Aug. 31, 2010, according to its tax forms.
In addition to the firings of Paterno and Spanier, the scandal led Curley and Gary Schultz, the vice president for finance and business, to step down last week. Both men have been charged with perjury and failure to report to the authorities what they knew about the allegations involving Sandusky, Penn State’s defensive coordinator from 1977 to 1999.
Also Monday, the Big Ten announced that Paterno’s name would be removed from its championship trophy for football. It will now be called the Stagg Championship Trophy, after Amos Alonzo Stagg.
The Second Mile has sought to help needy children across the state through various programs, but its suspected role in the case against Sandusky and its close relationship with the university are now being scrutinized.
The Second Mile also announced that Archer & Greiner would become the organization’s general counsel, replacing Wendell V. Courtney, who resigned last week. Courtney had served as Penn State’s counsel before he said he started representing the Second Mile in 2009.
Jo Becker reported from Harrisburg, Pa.
by 82_28 » Tue Nov 15, 2011 12:10 am
Jeff wrote:First Pic Since Sex Scandal BrokeJerry Sandusky has gone underground since the Penn State child sex scandal broke in a very public way last week, but TMZ just got the first photo of the disgraced former assistant coach.
The photo was taken this AM at LaGuardia Airport in NYC, as Sandusky waited for his flight, and passed the time by diving into a bag of Dunkin' Donuts.
Several people walked up to Sandusky, wanting to talk with him ... but he politely declined to engage them.
http://www.tmz.com/2011/11/14/jerry-san ... kin-donuts
by Jeff » Tue Nov 15, 2011 12:29 am
Sandusky lawyer impregnated teenage girl: report
By TIM PERONE
Last Updated: 9:55 PM, November 14, 2011
Posted: 9:14 PM, November 14, 2011
The lawyer for accused pedophile and former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky reportedly impregnated a teenage girl more than a decade ago.
Joe Amendola, 63, was the attorney for Mary Iavasile’s emancipation petition from Sept. 3, 1996, which was filed just weeks before her 17th birthday, according to Centre County Courthouse documents obtained by iPad newspaper The Daily.
That’s approximately when Iavasile became pregnant with Amendola’s child, her mother, Janet Iavasile, told The Daily.
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by Nordic » Tue Nov 15, 2011 12:50 am
by Project Willow » Tue Nov 15, 2011 1:48 am
Jerry Sandusky's daughter-in-law gets restraining order to keep Penn State 'paedophile' away from grandchildren
By Laurie Whitwell
Last updated at 11:04 AM on 14th November 2011
Jerry Sandusky's former daughter-in-law has obtained a legal order barring the ex-Penn State coach from seeing three of his grandchildren.
Jill Jones, who was once married to Matt Sandusky, went to court to stop the accused paedophile from having access to their two daughters, aged nine and seven, and one son, aged five, according to documents.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061216/Jerry-Sanduskys-ex-daughter-law-gets-restraining-order-Penn-State-paedophile-grandkids.html#ixzz1dkdYURXQ
A Grand Jury indictment alleges Sandusky, 67, sexually abused eight boys, some as young as seven, over a 15-year period. He denies the allegations.
After hearing the horrific charges on November 5, Ms Jones urged her ex-husband to keep the children away from their grandfather, The Daily reported.
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Cuffed: Former Penn State football defensive coordinator Gerald 'Jerry' Sandusky, centre, arriving in handcuffs at the office of Centre County Magisterial District Judge Leslie A. Dutchcot on November 5
Cuffed: Former Penn State football defensive coordinator Gerald 'Jerry' Sandusky, centre, arriving in handcuffs at the office of Centre County Magisterial District Judge Leslie A. Dutchcot on November 5
Sandusky home
No go area: Jill Jones, the ex-wife of Sandusky's adopted son Matt, has an order which prohibits her two daughters and one son from sleeping over at their grandparents' home, pictured
What does she know? Dorothy Sandusky has been married to alleged child rapist Jerry Sandusky since the 1960s and the indictment says abuse took place in their home
Grandmother: Dorothy Sandusky, wife of the shamed ex Penn State coach, reportedly called Ms Jones trying to convince her the children would be safe
Later that day Sandusky's wife Dorothy sent Ms Jones a text message informing her that Matt had taken the children to her State College, Pennsylvania home, but that Sandusky was not present.
Mrs Sandusky also phoned Ms Jones to try to persuade her that the children would be safe around her husband, the documents said, according to The Daily.
Ms Jones was unwavering, though, and successfully obtained a restraining order forbidding the children from sleeping over at their grandparents' home and banning Sandusky from seeing them unsupervised.
Although there is no record that Ms Jones ever accused her ex-father-in-law of abusing her children, there is a 'fundamental disagreement over the validity of the charges against Jerry Sandusky and the risk he poses to children,' the court documents said, according to The Daily.
Sandusky's attorney, Joe Amendola says his client rejects all the allegations set forth in the 23-page indictment.
The news came as it emerged that Matt, one of six now adult children Sandusky and his wife adopted during the course of the lengthy marriage, attempted suicide just four months after first going to live with the couple.
Matt, now 33, came into the Sandusky home through The Second Mile in 1995, after having a troubled childhood in which he had burnt down a barn.
Children and Youth Services placed him with the family at Sandusky's request.
The probation officer, Terry Trude, became concerned about Matt's well-being and mental health and together with his biological mother Debra Long, wrote a letter to Centre County Judge David Grine asking for his living situation to be reviewed, the Patriot-News reported.
by Allegro » Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:01 am
Updated 3h 6m ago, USA TODAY | William M. Welch wrote:Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky admitted Monday he took showers and "horsed around" with young boys, but he insisted he is not a pedophile who criminally assaulted children, according to his lawyer and an interview he gave to NBC.
"I could say that I have done some of those things. I have horsed around with kids I have showered after workouts. I have hugged them and I have touched their legs without intent of sexual contact," Sandusky said in the interview being aired on NBC News' Rock Center, according to the program's website.
"I shouldn't have showered with those kids,'' Sandusky added.
In a separate interview on CNN, Sandusky's attorney, Joe Amendola, said his client acknowledged showering with young boys. Amendola characterized the showering as something athletes might do normally and said it did not involve sexual activity or criminal acts.
"Jerry is a big overgrown kid. He's a jock," Amendola said. "The bottom line is, jocks do that. They kid around, horse around."
Amendola added: "I wouldn't do that. I'm sure you wouldn't do it. But Jerry did that."
In the phone interview with NBC sports commentator Bob Costas, Sandusky responded "no" when asked whether he was a pedophile.
"I say that I am innocent of those charges," Sandusky said.
Legal and crisis management experts voiced surprise, even shock at the admissions.
Marci Hamilton, a law professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York who specializes in child sex abuse issues and legislation, called the admissions "legally insane."
"He's obviously not in touch with reality," Hamilton said.
"If I was his attorney, I would never allow him to do this. It's just foolishness. It's a very bad idea.
"Even when a child is just touched in passing by an adult, it can affect them. Clearly, he has no sympathy and empathy for the victims."
Crisis consultant Eric Dezenhall of Washington, D.C., called it a "highly risky" strategy.
"He may feel he has nothing to lose. Very few attorneys would allow this. Anything you say publicly is admissible in court — which is why lawyers want their clients to stay quiet. That said, Sandusky may have a 'Hail Mary' attitude here and feel he's got to give it a shot," Dezenhall said.
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said the admission by Sandusky may hurt his case. "When you are admitting showering with a 10-year-old, you've got a big problem already," Toobin said.
Sandusky was charged Nov. 5 with molesting eight boys over a span of 15 years, and two university officials were charged with failing to notify authorities after being told about a 2002 incident in which Sandusky allegedly sodomized a boy in the showers of the football building. Sandusky is free on $100,000 bail.
The scandal led to the ouster of university President Graham Spanier and coach Joe Paterno. Penn State Athletic Director Tim Curley and Senior Vice President Gary Schultz face perjury charges in the case.
Contributing: Michael McCarthy, the Associated Press
by Peachtree Pam » Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:29 am
Patriot-News Special Report: Inside the Jerry Sandusky investigation - why did it take so long?
Published: Sunday, November 13, 2011, 9:02 PM Updated: Monday, November 14, 2011, 9:03 AM
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index. ... incart_mce
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Investigations are not perfect. They are fluid beings that change and evolve. And a complex probe involving multiple victims, dozens of witnesses and thousands of pages of documents can sometimes take three years.
Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky was indicted on 40 counts related to child sex abuse, in an investigation launched in late 2008.
One of the most frequent questions has been: Did the investigation need to take that long?
The grand jury presentment alleges that Sandusky victimized eight boys as young as 7 years old, from as far back as 1994.
But 15 months had gone by before officials added enough manpower to find that out.
There were earlier chances to bring him to the attention of law enforcement. Clues seem to have been ignored in 1995 and 1999; an alleged victim came forward in 1998; and adults allegedly witnessed sexual assaults by Sandusky in 2000 and 2002.
Then in 2008, Victim One came forward and was believed. Sandusky met the Clinton County boy through The Second Mile, the charity for kids he had founded in 1977.
At the time, Sandusky was a volunteer football coach at Central Mountain High School and had frequent contact with the boy there.
The boy’s mother brought him to school officials and he told them about the alleged abuse.
According to the grand jury presentment, the boy — who was then in his early teens — alleged that Sandusky had forcibly performed oral sex on him more than 20 times, and forced him to perform oral sex on Sandusky.
The grand jury account is chilling.
At first, the case shuffled through the legal system. It was referred from Clinton County to Centre County, where the crimes were alleged to have taken place. In March 2009, then-Centre County District Attorney Michael Madeira transferred the case to then-Attorney General Tom Corbett’s office, citing a conflict of interest.
Despite the fact that Sandusky might continue to have contact with young boys through The Second Mile, despite the explosive possibility that a legendary Penn State coach might have committed repeated sexual assaults, only one state trooper was assigned to the case.
A grand jury began looking at the case in Harrisburg, but the investigation centered around only the one alleged victim and one set of incidents of abuse.
Finally, in fall 2010, the attorney general’s office began to supervise the case.
One of the first things that happened was the discovery of a 1998 report in the files of the Penn State police.
In that case, a Second Mile boy now known as Victim Six had also come forward to authorities. He told them that Sandusky had allegedly soaped up the boy in the Penn State locker room showers, hugged him from behind and said, “I’m going to squeeze your guts out.”
Then-Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar set up a sting in the mother’s home. Sandusky had requested to meet with the mom, and officers hid in another room. According to the presentment, Sandusky ask the mom for forgiveness.
“I was wrong. I wish I could get forgiveness from you. I know I won’t get it from you. I wish I were dead,” Sandusky said.
Gricar never brought charges.
Ray Gricar disappeared in 2005 and was declared dead earlier this year. The lead investigator in his disappearance told The Patriot-News last week that there was no evidence relating Gricar’s fate to the Sandusky case.
The 1998 report was a huge crack in the investigation. It demonstrated that Sandusky had been accused of child sex abuse before — in fact, 10 years before.
Also in late 2010, Mike McQueary, an assistant football coach, was interviewed about the alleged rape of a boy he’d seen in the Penn State locker room in 2002.
Suddenly there were three alleged victims. It was an early indication of the case’s scope.
MORE INVESTIGATORS, MORE VICTIMS
State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan — who took office in January — increased the number investigators to eight, including five from the state police and three from the attorney general’s office.
“He did move it forward, absolutely,” said state police spokeswoman Maria Finn said. “He was very familiar with the case and believed it was necessary to increase the resources (and) investigators. It was also a time when the case was picking up steam with more leads.”
Quickly, the investigation took off and they discovered new victims.
Interviewed for this story, Corbett spokesman Kevin Harley said he believed the information on the number of investigators initially involved in the case was wrong. The Patriot-News has the information from sources with reliable knowledge of the investigation.
“It was completely mishandled,” one source close to the investigation told The Patriot-News. “I know these investigations take time, some of them, but someone should have been on this day and night from the beginning because of the severity” of the allegations.
It wasn’t until early 2011 that The Second Mile — which Attorney General Linda Kelly said Sandusky used to find his victims — was officially notified by authorities of a child abuse investigation, according to The Second Mile.
Sandusky had already been barred from participating in Second Mile activities with kids. Why? Because Jerry Sandusky himself volunteered to Second Mile officials that he was under investigation more than two years earlier, in November 2008.
When The Patriot-News broke the story of the investigation in March of this year, officials from the Clinton County school district where Sandusky had allegedly spent time with Victim One had still not been subpoenaed.
Penn State Coach Joe Paterno, Athletic Director Tim Curley and Vice President Gary Schultz did not testify before the grand jury until February 2011.
Second Mile CEO Jack Raykovitz testified in April 2011.
Investigators never asked the lead detective in the Ray Gricar case for the prosecutor’s files.
Gricar’s former staff members were not interviewed until after March 2011.
And Jerry Sandusky’s home was not searched until this summer — two and half years after the investigation began.
“Assuming Sandusky was aware, for a few years, of the investigation, then he would have had plenty of time to destroy potentially incriminating evidence,” said Beth Karas, a former prosecutor, and current correspondent for "In Session" on the truTV network.
Karas said she also can’t think of a reason why they wouldn’t warn The Second Mile about the investigation much earlier.
“If they were taking the allegation seriously, and of course they were, then it seems the children of Second Mile should be of paramount concern,” she said. “At a minimum, I would think they inquired of Second Mile about Sandusky’s role there, as of the time the investigation began, and whether he had contact with children.”
MISSING ATTENTION TO DETAILS
Then there were the minor fumbles that showed a lack of attention to details.
In September, at least one witness was subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury during a week when Harrisburg was threatened by major flooding from the Susquehanna River. The night before scheduled testimony, the witness was put up in a Harrisburg hotel with no emergency contact information. Later, the witness was evacuated with no way to contact officials.
After fending for themselves overnight, the witness was told in the morning their testimony had been canceled because of the weather.
Then there is a dispute about attorney Wendell Courtney.
Schultz told the grand jury that the 1998 allegations were reviewed by Courtney, who was then university counsel. The presentment points out that Courtney was also counsel for The Second Mile at the time.
Courtney told The Patriot-News that is wrong. He said he it was for about a year in 2009 when he served as counsel for both.
Finally, there was the way that the indictments came out.
On Friday, Nov. 4, charges that had been brewing for nearly three years were filed by accident.
Plans were in the works to arrest Sandusky Nov. 7 and have Attorney General Kelly hold a major press conference. Instead, the charges were posted prematurely on the Pennsylvania state court website while Sandusky was on a family vacation in Ohio.
The Patriot-News, which had been closely following the investigation, first reported the charges on PennLive.com. As word spread, police scrambled to find Sandusky and get him to an arraignment arranged hastily for the following day.
It is unclear who made the mistake. The attorney general’s office says they did not do it, and neither did the state police. Finn said they believe the error can be traced back to the district judge’s office.
Victim One’s mother said she was furious. Years after her son had come forward, after many months of frustration and being kept in the dark, the family was never warned of the coming firestorm.
Victim Six and his family were blindsided as well, his mother said.
Nils Frederiksen, spokesman for Kelly, has said they will look into how that information was released.
Whatever the reason, it ended an investigation that, for nearly three years, had sent victims and witnesses on a stomach-churning emotional roller coaster.
“We expected you just arrest people who do stuff like that,” Victim One’s mother said. “We didn’t realize it was going to be this difficult and take this long.”
by Allegro » Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:53 am
updated at 11:58 AM on 14th November 2011, Mail Online | Laurie Whitwell wrote:Jerry Sandusky’s wife has been largely absent from the analysis of who knew what about her husband’s alleged sexual abuse of eight boys over a 15-year period.
But Dorothy 'Dottie' Gross Sandusky does make an appearance in the 23-page Grand Jury indictment which graphically details the charges against the 67-year-old former Penn State coach.
Mrs. Sandusky, 68, attempted to call one of the victims in the weeks leading up to his testimony, despite the fact the now 26-year-old had cut off all contact with Sandusky two years prior.
She left a message on Victim 7's phone saying the matter was 'very important' but the man, who told the Grand Jury that as a ten-year-old in 1994, Sandusky hugged and inappropriately touched him, did not return the call.
Part of that alleged abuse took place in the Sandusky family’s State College, Pennsylvania, home, in which Dorothy and her husband raised their six adopted children. Sandusky claimed he and his wife could not have any of their own.
Over the years the couple became the parents to Ray, now 46, a businessman living in Nashville, EJ, 41, former Nittany Lions player, and now a football coach at West Chester University, Kara, 38, a Penn State graduate, Jeff, 35, a former Marine, and 33-year-olds Matt, a Penn State graduate and Jon, who is Director of Player Personnel for the Cleveland Browns.
Quite how much any of them knew about the sexual abuse, which occurred between 1994 and 2009 with a number of incidents at the family home, is now under scrutiny.
The former Penn State defensive coordinator and his lawyer, Joe Amendola, have maintained that Sandusky is innocent and publicly denied all allegations. Neither Dorothy Sandusky nor any of her adopted children have yet made a statement on the scandal.
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The book [Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story] repeatedly described Sandusky hugging boys and detailing how he was very close to those he met through the charity. Of the photos that line his office walls, he said: 'They are kids that have touched my life and have been a part of me for a long, long time.'
In the book he paints himself as someone who would repeatedly take risks in the hunt for what he refers to as 'mischief.'
'I believe I live a good part of my life in a make-believe world,' Sandusky wrote in one of the final chapters. 'I enjoyed pretending as a kid, and I love doing the same as an adult with these kids.'
Whether Mrs. Sandusky was worried by any such behaviour is not yet known. What is established is that she has been by Sandusky’s side since the mid-1960s, when they married.
Originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee, she had met Sandusky in Washington a few years before. He endearingly called his wife 'Sarge,' because she was in charge in their home, ESPN News reported.
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