The Pedophile File

[seemslikeadream]

Report: 10 more suspected victims come forward in Jerry Sandusky case
Upwards of 10 more suspected victims have gone to the authorities after former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was arraigned on 40 counts of child sexual abuse on Nov. 5, the New York Times reports. There were eight victims in the original grand jury report, but more have come forward since the allegations against Sandusky broke in early November.

This news comes just after Sandusky made his first public comments since being charged with the crimes. Sandusky was interviewed over the phone by Bob Costas on NBC’s “Rock Center” on Monday night. Sandusky told Costas that he is “innocent of those charges,” before allowing that he could “have done some of those things.”

Sandusky denied that he raped a boy in the shower in Penn State locker room in 2002, as Mike McQueary asserted in the grand jury report. Sandusky claims that they were “showering and horsing around.”

[Nordic]

[seemslikeadream]

November 15, 2011
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A Precursor to the Penn State Debacle
The 1994 Christian Children’s Fund Scandal
by THOMAS H. NAYLOR

Former Penn State President Graham Spanier’s connection to the university’s football related sex scandal was not his first brush with scandal involving a major organization under his watch. In 1994, while he was Chancellor of the University of Nebraska, Spanier was also Chairman of the Board of the Christian Children’s Fund, the largest child sponsorship organization in the world, located in Richmond, Virginia. After serving on the CCF board myself for two years, in March, 1994, I was kicked off the board for whistle blowing. Subsequently, I went public with my charges of corruption against the $112 million organization, which claimed to support 400,000 children in 40 countries, whose board Spanier chaired.

Not unlike hundreds of thousands of other Americans, I too had been seduced by emotionally charged television advertisements extolling the virtues of sending a monthly check to a private child sponsorship organization such as Childreach or World Vision. Long before I joined the board of CCF, I had been a sponsor of a child in Bangladesh through Save the Children. The possibility of sponsoring one’s own child in an impoverished third-world country has enormous appeal. It is neat, clean, tax-deductible, and hassle-free. You do not have to travel anywhere; you need not see or touch any smelly, filthy children; and you avoid the risk of disease and sickness. Even though you are completely detached from your child, writing a check makes you feel good.

During my first year on the CCF board I sat on the audit committee, where I was exposed to a series of quarterly horror stories describing incidents of fraud, theft, and mismanagement in CCF projects in places such as Brazil, Haiti, India, Thailand, Ethiopia, Oklahoma, and North Dakota. After awhile I realized that none of these problems were ever reported to have been resolved. Then one day a new board member, upon hearing the stories of the internal auditor, proclaimed, “This is scary stuff.” And he was right. I decided to dig deeper into the matter.

The bedrock on which child sponsorship organizations based their fund raising appeals was the so-called 80-20 rule. CCF was no exception to the rule. For every dollar received from sponsors, CCF claimed that 80 cents went to support children and that the remaining 20 cents was used for management and fund raising. There was only one catch. It was not true.

One of CCF’s accountants led me by the hand through the organization’s sophisticated accounting system and convinced me that no one really knew how much of each contribution dollar actually reached the children. As a result of creative accounting and an inadequate financial information and control system, the percentage of each sponsorship dollar spent on children could be as low as 50 percent. This got my attention.

I began turning up the heat on the board to look into this egregious matter. The board members were unamused. Their response was a combination of denial and an attempt to discredit me. My fate was sealed at the January, 1994 board meeting when I suggested that the CCF board was little more than a cheerleading team for the organization’s CEO. One board member became so enraged that he threatened to throw me out of the window of a five-story building.

Shortly after being removed form the CCF board I wrote a 10-page report summarizing my grievances with CCF’s management and sent it to Ed Briggs, the religion writer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Briggs courageously decided to run with the story even though CCF was perceived to be a virtually untouchable sacred cow protected by a board controlled by well-connected, high-profile Richmonders. Since I was living in Vermont by then, Briggs was in a much better position to dig more deeply into the story than I could, and he did.

On May 23, 1994, the first of 14 front-page articles by Briggs and his colleagues ran in the Times-Dispatch. My original 10-page report was only the tip of the iceberg compared to what they uncovered and reported. They flushed out the details of lavish office furnishings and expensive travel budgets for CCF executives and board members alike. They also interviewed former CCF executives who opted to let it all hang out.

CCF refused to reveal the cost of a frivolous 1993 trip to Warsaw, Poland for a 35-person CCF delegation of which I was a member. We stayed in the most posh hotel in Warsaw. Although little or nothing was accomplished, it was considered chic in the child sponsorship business back in those days to have a presence in Eastern Europe. Spanier made frequent trips on behalf of CCF including at least one to China.

The CCF scandal was picked up nationally by The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Chicago Tribune, Christianity Today, and NBC News.

In August 1994 CCF’s CEO Paul F. McCleary announced his plans to retire and Spanier followed suit a month or so later. Both denied that their decision to step down had been influenced by the media attention received by CCF. Both McCleary and Spanier consistently denied any wrongdoing on the part of CCF and tried desperately to ridicule me for my role in exposing the malfeasance at CCF.

In 2009 the Christian Children’s Fund changed its name to Child Fund International. Somehow this seemed appropriate, since CCF had never had any connection whatsoever to Christianity, and it showed.

When all is said and done, in addition to denial and cover-up, what the CCF and Penn State scandals share in common is the fact that both institutions were too big to manage by Graham Spanier or anyone else. And Spanier was not paying attention to what was going on.

[Jeff]

TMZ again.

Jerry Sandusky's lawyer says he thinks he found the boy who was allegedly raped in the shower that has become the flashpoint for the scandal, and the man -- now in his 20's -- is saying it never happened.

Joe Amendola told Ann Curry on "Today" ... prosecutors have never given him the names of the accusers, but he believes he's found the alleged victim, and if indeed it is him Mike McQueary is lying.

http://www.tmz.com/2011/11/15/jerry-san ... eary-liar/

[Simulist]

Sandusky: He 'horsed around' but insists he's no pedophile

Who the FUCK does he think he's kidding? And just what's he trying to do at this point?

Get all of this reduced to a charge of "following too close"?!!

[justdrew]

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.

There may be more to this than meets the eye. Who's to say that had those charges not been "accidentally" filed that this investigation, just like all the rest, would have quietly "gone away"

whoever "accidentally" filed those charges may well come to be considered a hero.

again, no trace has yet been seen of Patriot-News's supposed initial reporting from Oct 2010, it's not on their website. Anyone have a way to scan through old paper copies? In none of these stories do they site what days issue they broke this in. So I guess we'd have to look through the whole months back issues. Which are probably not available anywhere. MAYBE a local library might have them?

[Simulist]

Um. Just how do charges get filed "by accident"? And after all this time?

Did some "justice" official finally slip on a bar of soap Sandusky left behind?

[jingofever]

In an e-mail to a friend McQueary changes his story:

McQueary's actions also have been scrutinized, with some suggesting he didn't do enough after witnessing child sex-abuse.

McQueary told a friend from Penn State that he stopped the alleged assault and went to the police about it. The friend made an email from McQueary available to The Associated Press on Tuesday on the condition of anonymity.

In the email dated Nov. 8 from McQueary's Penn State account, the former Nittany Lions quarterback wrote: "I did stop it, not physically ... but made sure it was stopped when I left that locker room... I did have discussions with police and with the official at the university in charge of police....no one can imagine my thoughts or wants to be in my shoes for those 30-45 seconds...trust me."

Added McQueary: "Do with this what you want...but I am getting hammered for handling this the right way...or what I thought at the time was right...I had to make tough impacting quick decisions."

Is he making this up or did he lie to the grand jury? Is he sabotaging the case against Sandusky? "Do with this what you want"? That sounds like a non-request request to send it to the media.

[seemslikeadream]

Paterno Turns Home Over to Wife for $1

The fair-market value on the Paterno’s house was $594,484.40.
By MARK VIERA and PETE THAMEL
Published: November 15, 2011

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Joe Paterno transferred full ownership of his house to his wife, Sue, for $1 in July, less than four months before a sexual abuse scandal engulfed his Penn State football program and the university.

Documents filed in Centre County, Pa., show that on July 21, Paterno’s house near campus was turned over to “Suzanne P. Paterno, trustee” for a dollar plus “love and affection.” The couple had previously held joint ownership of the house, which they bought in 1969 for $58,000.

According to documents filed with the county, the house’s fair-market value was listed at $594,484.40. Wick Sollers, a lawyer for Paterno, said in an e-mail that the Paternos had been engaged in a “multiyear estate planning program,” and the transfer “was simply one element of that plan.” He said it had nothing to do with the scandal.

Paterno, who was fired as the football coach at the university last week, has been judged harshly by many for failing to take more aggressive action when he learned of a suspected sexual assault of a child by one of his former top assistants.

Some legal experts, in trying to gauge the legal exposure of the university and its top officials to lawsuits brought by suspected victims of the assistant, Jerry Sandusky, have theorized that Paterno could be a target of civil actions. On Nov. 5, Sandusky, Penn State’s former defensive coordinator, was charged with 40 counts related to the reported sexual abuse of eight boys over 15 years. Paterno, 84, was among those called to give testimony before a grand jury during the investigation, which began in 2009.

Experts in estate planning and tax law, in interviews, cautioned that it would be hard to determine the Paternos’ motivation simply from the available documents. It appears the family house had been the subject of years of complex and confusing transactions.

Lawrence A. Frolik, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh who specializes in elder law, said that he had “never heard” of a husband selling his share of a house for $1 to his spouse for tax or government assistance purposes.

“I can’t see any tax advantages,” Frolik said. “If someone told me that, my reaction would be, ‘Are they hoping to shield assets in case if there’s personal liability?’ ” He added, “It sounds like an attempt to avoid personal liability in having assets in his wife’s name.”

Two lawyers examined the available documents in recent days. Neither wanted to be identified because they were not directly involved in the case or the property transaction. One of the experts said it appeared to be an explicit effort to financially shield Joe Paterno. The other regarded the July transaction, at least on its face, as benign.

Last Wednesday, the university’s board of trustees fired Paterno and Graham B. Spanier, the university’s president.

In 2002, Mike McQueary, then a graduate assistant in the football program, told Paterno that he had seen Sandusky with a boy in the football building’s showers. How explicit McQueary was in describing what he saw is in dispute. But according to state prosecutors, Paterno testified under oath that McQueary had told him that he had seen Sandusky doing something of a sexual nature to a roughly 10-year-old boy.

Paterno did not report the incident to the police or encourage McQueary to make such a report. Instead, he passed along the allegation the next day to the university’s athletic department and one other senior administrator.

On the day he was fired last week, Paterno said he and his wife were praying for the victims, described the events as a tragedy and admitted that he wished he had done more in 2002.

“Coach Paterno wants to tell his side of the story and answer questions, and I am hopeful he will be able to do so down the road,” said Sollers, Paterno’s lawyer.

The lawyer whose name is attached to the latest matter involving the couple’s house is David C. Pohland of Cassidy, Kotjarapoglus & Pohland of Greensburg, Pa. Pohland did not return a telephone message on Tuesday. The maiden name of Sue Paterno, who is 13 years younger than her husband, is Pohland. It was uncertain if there was any relation between her and the lawyer.

[Simulist]

In an e-mail to a friend McQueary changes his story:

McQueary's actions also have been scrutinized, with some suggesting he didn't do enough after witnessing child sex-abuse.

McQueary told a friend from Penn State that he stopped the alleged assault and went to the police about it. The friend made an email from McQueary available to The Associated Press on Tuesday on the condition of anonymity.

In the email dated Nov. 8 from McQueary's Penn State account, the former Nittany Lions quarterback wrote: "I did stop it, not physically ... but made sure it was stopped when I left that locker room... I did have discussions with police and with the official at the university in charge of police....no one can imagine my thoughts or wants to be in my shoes for those 30-45 seconds...trust me."

Added McQueary: "Do with this what you want...but I am getting hammered for handling this the right way...or what I thought at the time was right...I had to make tough impacting quick decisions."

Is he making this up or did he lie to the grand jury? Is he sabotaging the case against Sandusky? "Do with this what you want"? That sounds like a non-request request to send it to the media.

I don't know, Jingo. My guess would be that McQueary has been shaken of late by the rightfully intense scrutiny of his actions that evening — and outright revulsion concerning his failure to act — and he's "enhancing" his story in response.

Of course maybe it's also possible that McQueary's entire account has not yet been fully represented in the written material we've read, and he's highlighting some facts the absence of which he feels have mislead people into believing things about him that aren't fully true.

[bks]

This article from 1999 is almost surreal in the current context.

Last Call

Jerry Sandusky, the dean of Linebacker U, is leaving Penn State after 32 years to devote himself to a different kind of coaching

Jack McCallum

December 20, 1999

Whatever problems the census takers in State College, Pa., might have, they don't come from the Penn State coaching staff. Joe Paterno, who turns 73 on Dec. 21, is in his 50th year at the university, the last 34 as head coach, and he still runs gassers with the linemen at practice. Five of Paterno's assistants (including his son, Jay) played under him in Happy Valley, four have been on his staff for more than 20 seasons, and two turned down major head coaching jobs to stay in State College. So when someone from the fold takes his leave, it is big news. When that someone is Jerry Sandusky, four years a Penn State player, 32 years a Penn State assistant and 23 years the defensive coordinator at Linebacker U, it is worth a standing ovation.

That's what Sandusky, 55, received from 96,480 fans before the Michigan game on Nov. 13, when he ran onto the Beaver Stadium sod for the last time as a Nittany Lions coach. Among the players who embraced him at midfield was his son Jon, a reserve defensive back. Among those cheering from the sidelines was another son, Matt, a Penn State manager.

Matt Sandusky, 20, used to have a different last name. He was a troubled kid from a town near State College. When he was eight, he got involved with a program called the Second Mile that Sandusky had started in 1981 to help kids like Matt. But it wasn't enough to keep him on the straight and narrow. When Matt was 15 he ran afoul of the law—"I'd rather not say for what," he says—and was put on probation. Jerry and Dottie Sandusky took him in as a foster child and adopted him two years later. Result? Matt is now a junior at Penn State and expects to graduate next year with a degree in guidance.
"My life changed when I came to live here," says Matt. "There were rules, there was discipline, there was caring. Dad put me on a workout program. He gave me someone to talk to, a father figure I never had. I have no idea where I'd be without him and Mom. I don't even want to think about it. And they've helped so many kids besides me."

Around central Pennsylvania, Jerry's Kids has nothing to do with a Labor Day telethon. With the proceeds from his book, Developing Linebackers the Penn State Way, and a lot of hope, Sandusky started the Second Mile, which began as a group foster home. Today the organization has 20 full-time employees, hundreds of volunteers and a fund-raising machine that rustles up about $1 million per year; through a network of school-and community-based programs it reaches about 100,000 at-risk youngsters. Jerry and Dottie have done more than their share of personal reaching, too. All told the Sanduskys have six children, all adopted, three as infants, three after having had them in foster care. Besides Matt and Jon, 22, the Sandusky lineup consists of Ray, 36, a businessman in Nashville; E.J., 30, who played center for the Nittany Lions and is the football coach at Albright College; Kara, 27, a Penn State grad who is married and works at the university; and Jeff, 24, a Marine who is stationed in North Carolina. "Who knows how any of us would've ended up if we hadn't become Sanduskys," says E.J.

Who knows how countless others would've ended up had Sandusky's organization not gotten involved. Partly because of his Second Mile responsibilities, Sandusky turned down a prime head coaching opportunity, at Maryland in 1991, and his decision to retire at the end of this season (his last game will be the Dec. 28 Alamo Bowl against Texas A&M) was partly based on his wanting to get more involved in fund-raising and program development for the organization. "Jerry has always been our heart and soul," says Hank Lesch, Second Mile's vice president of development.

If Sandusky did not have such a human side, there would be a temptation around Happy Valley to canonize him: Saint Sandusky, leader of linebackers, molder of men. Fortunately, it's easier to conjure up an image or Sandusky as a fuming, fussing fire-breather on the sideline, flashing signals like a crazed third base coach, copies of his defensive alignments dangling from his belt like elongated key chains. LaVar Arrington, the ninth All-America linebacker to play under Sandusky, remembers with glee a moment from the Nittany Lions' Sept. 18 game against Miami in the Orange Bowl when Arrington was taunting the crowd from the sideline. Sandusky lit out after him but tripped on a wire and went sprawling over the bench. "He gets caught up in the moment sometimes," says Arrington.

Because Sandusky is so respected, as a man and as the dean of Linebacker U, there's the impression that it's just fine with him that he has never been a head coach. It's not. "I wouldn't call it devastating," says Sandusky, choosing his words carefully, "but I would call it a little disappointing. That was definitely a goal of mine when I started. If I hadn't had the other part of my life—my family and the Second Mile—I would've been a head coach."

Sandusky had already turned down Marshall and Temple before Maryland came knocking. He says that his three reasons for saying no to the Terrapins were, in order, family, Second Mile commitments and the chance he would get Paterno's job. But as the '90s wore on, Paterno never wore down. Joe Pa says he wants to remain the head man "at least until I'm 75," and only a fool would bet that he won't last a year or two beyond that. On July 1, when Sandusky announced his intention to retire, one of the first calls he received was from Matt Millen, a Penn State All-America in 1978, who greeted him with, "It figures that the guy who has been there for 30 years would get out before the guy who has been there for 50." Sandusky says he doesn't second-guess himself about the Maryland decision but allows that even if he had gotten the chance to succeed Paterno, it would not have been an ideal situation. "It would've been like inheriting Papa's business," says Sandusky. ( Tom Bradley, a former Nittany Lions player who is in his 21st year as a Paterno assistant, is more colorful in describing what it's like to follow a legend: "Next guy in always gets whacked.")

Working under Paterno takes something out of a man, too. Sandusky was asked last week if he'll miss Joe Pa. "Well, not exactly," he said. "You have to understand that so much of our time was spent under stress, figuring out how to win. That takes a toll. We've had our battles. I've quit. I've been fired. I've walked around the building to cool off." Paterno says, "I'm not the easiest guy to work with." Millen puts it another way: "Figuratively speaking, that Paterno nose is everywhere."

That nose has not been in Sandusky's defensive business nearly as much as it has been in the offensive business conducted by coordinator Fran Gantner. "I bug Jerry," says Paterno, "but I drive Fran absolutely nuts." Sandusky concedes that he could not have worked under the same conditions as Gantner, who turned down the head job at Michigan State in '94 to continue sharing the headphones with Joe Pa. "I'm in a zone during a game," says Sandusky. "I wouldn't want Joe in that zone with me."

Still, Paterno is the boss—Sandusky doesn't expect Paterno to solicit his opinion about who should follow him as coordinator—and no doubt part of Sandusky's reason for retiring is that he's tired of being second banana.He's not even coy about his desire still to run a program, any program, perhaps a Division III team or, don't laugh, a midget league basketball team. Sandusky's parents, Art and Evie, ran a recreation center in Washington, Pa., and at heart, E.J. says, Sandusky is "a frustrated playground director." E.J. remembers the kickball games his father organized in the backyard. "Dad would get every single kid involved," says E.J. "We had the largest kickball games in the United States, kickball games with 40 kids."

Says Millen, "A lot of people were surprised when Jerry said he was retiring. Me? I was surprised he stayed that long. Jerry has so many passions and so many gifts besides coaching football—a gift for teaching, a gift for helping, a gift for guiding kids. This is a man with a lot to do."

Here's the best thing you can say about Jerry Sandusky: He's the main reason that Penn State is Linebacker U...and linebackers aren't even his enduring legacy.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/ ... /index.htm

[Project Willow]

I always thought that the only explanation for McQueary's response, as stated in his testimony and as quoted by the press, was that he was also a victim of abuse. I can imagine him encountering the scenario and in reaction immediately dissociating into that other place of awareness, where the rules are all turned on their heads, where, "We don't talk about that, we keep that secret," and he acted from that place and called his dad.

Another athlete/commentator pointed out that Sandusky was McQueary's superior and on top of that, carried the mystique of those especial superiors in the most vaulted program of football programs.

Combine the two forces and his actions are understandable, although still not excusable. I count on the readership here not to confuse the two.

...............

As for the email, "Case begins to deteriorate as major witness perjures himself", is a possibility I guess. I can only imagine the strong-arming happening in various quarters at lightening speed over the last week or so.

[Simulist]

That seems deeply insightful, PW.

[jingofever]

I don't know, Jingo. My guess would be that McQueary has been shaken of late by the rightfully intense scrutiny of his actions that evening — and outright revulsion concerning his failure to act — and he's "enhancing" his story in response.

Of course maybe it's also possible that McQueary's entire account has not yet been fully represented in the written material we've read, and he's highlighting some facts the absence of which he feels have mislead people into believing things about him that aren't fully true.

The problem for McQueary is that the grand jury report explicitly says he did not talk to police. And the grand jury thought McQueary was more credible than the two Penn State officials who are being prosecuted. I understand McQueary was going to play a large part in the prosecution's case. Now he probably won't which considerably weakens any case against Sandusky. So either he lied to the grand jury which probably puts him in trouble and destroys his credibility or in trying to enhance his public image he threw away his credibility. Is he so stupid to make up a statement to the police when they should have it in their files? Is he so stupid to lie to a grand jury and then casually point that out?

[Simulist]

Good points. I've already read the grand jury report, but I'd be interested to hear his grand jury testimony. Or read a verbatim transcript of it.