Sandusky Child Rape Research Questions Resource

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34. Presumption in question: Who and what in the white male-dominated system(s) is Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly helping to protect?

35. Speculation in question: What activities and methods will Ketchum public relations firm maintain wrt certain points of view for anyone directly or indirectly, un/wittingly involved with the Sandusky and Second Mile cases, or Penn State's future in general?
(Note to Allegro: wiki public relations; tip: Edward Louis Bernays)

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REFER RI THREADS. Sandusky Child Rape Research Questions Resource | Louis Freeh Penn State Pedo Investigator | The Pedophile File

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Second Mile to sell land for proposed learning center
— Centre Daily Times | Modified: 5:44pm on Jan 13, 2012

The Second Mile has decided to sell property near Bellefonte it's owned for a planned educational center, the organization posted on its website Friday.

"(I)n the wake of the tragic events that have come to light over the past several months, continued funding for the project is no long available," the statement reads.

The project was canceled in November.

The statement said the organization seeks to preserve its key programs and the sale of the property is a "key step" to that goal.

...According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Poole Anderson is also the construction manager for the $11.5 million "Center for Excellence," a Second Mile project that had long been a dream of Sandusky's. The learning center, which was to be financed in part by a $3 million state grant approved by Gov. Tom Corbett, was supposed to have classrooms, dorms, athletic facilities, and an auditorium. The state grant is now on hold. [REFER.]

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The following originally posted by sunny in “Susan Komen for the Cure to cut funds to Planned Parenthood thread.” Thanks, sunny.

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Komen’s $7.5 Million Grant to Penn State Appears to Violate New Policy

Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which recently announced that it is ending grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screening because of a controversial investigation launched by an anti-abortion Republican congressman, currently funds cancer research at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center to the tune of $7.5 million. Like Planned Parenthood, Penn State is currently the subject of a federal government investigation, and like the Planned Parenthood grant, the Penn State grant appears to violate a new internal rule at Komen that bans grants to organizations that are under investigation by federal, state, or local governments. But so far, only the Planned Parenthood grants appear to have been cancelled.

An internal Komen memo written by President Elizabeth Thompson and obtained by Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic states that if “an applicant or its affiliates” is under investigation “for financial or administrative improprieties by local, state or federal authorities,” then “the applicant will be ineligible to receive a grant.” Penn State, the Pennsylvania university that the Hershey center is affiliated with, is currently under investigation by the federal government over the sexual assault scandal involving former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, who has been indicted on multiple counts of sexual abuse of children. In 2008, the Komen foundation awarded a five-year, $7.5 million grant to the Hershey center to study treatments that could reduce the risk of breast cancer.

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Child Protection Task Force must produce more than another report
— Patriot-News By Dr. David Turkewitz & Gary Shuey | Updated: Monday, Feb 20, 2012, 6:22 PM

Last April, The Protect Our Children Committee — Pennsylvania’s statewide coalition dedicated to preventing child abuse and advocating for targeted child welfare reforms — called for the creation of a task force to examine how Pennsylvania defines, reports, investigates and treats child abuse.

In the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, the General Assembly and Gov. Tom Corbett have created the Task Force on Child Protection. The 10 members are not state politicians, rather they are experts from the legal, medical, judicial, child welfare services and advocacy arenas.

We welcome the creation of the task force. Although we are cautiously optimistic, Pennsylvania has been here before. For more than a decade, community outrage and debate have persisted, triggered by high-profile and shocking reports, studies and hundreds of child-abuse related fatalities and near-fatalities. In the wake of each report, each child’s death, we vowed anew our commitment to better ensure that every Pennsylvania child is safe and connected to nurturing adults.

In many ways, we have done better, but in some ways we have not. Laboring under the harsh shadow of the Sandusky and Penn State child sex abuse scandal, we must all acknowledge legitimate and extensive questions about how and why our institutional, state and national child protection policies have fallen short, including:

1. Insufficient attention to and investment in proven prevention services.
2. Placing the burden on children to keep themselves safe from child abuse and victimization.
3. [I]nconsistent and confusing laws about reporting child abuse.
4. A reduced capacity to respond to the complex needs of vulnerable children.
5. Inadequate commitment to transparency and accountability.

POCC [Protect Our Children Committee] sought a task force, in part, to understand the reasons for and implications of Pennsylvania’s statistical outlier status, both in initiating child abuse investigations (8 per 1,000 children versus 40 per 1,000 children nationally) and in determining a child to be a victim of child abuse (1.3 per 1,000 children compared with 9.2 per 1,000 nationally).

Also, Pennsylvania’s mandatory reporting statute is perceived as relatively straightforward, yet many people find it technical and confusing. We find a remarkably large number of mandated reporters have never even been trained about how and when to report.

Last year, POCC conducted a survey of mandated reporters in Pennsylvania; 1,200 professionals responded revealing that nearly 40 percent of those responding had never, or had not recently, been trained.

The task force must work to ensure that caregivers and professionals know their duty and that reporting child abuse is as straightforward as possible. POCC, however, would offer a strong caution about focusing solely on the reporting of child abuse.

Increasing the number of reports of suspected abuse, without ensuring adequate resources or the system’s capacity and effectiveness to respond, would be noble, but might be dangerous to the kids who really need the system’s attention.

The majority of reports about suspected child abuse and child victimization are directed to the state’s child abuse hotline — ChildLine. In 2010, ChildLine answered more than 121,000 calls, but staffing and technology issues contributed to a nearly 9 percent rate of missed calls.

If the calls to report abuse go unanswered, investigations are not conducted, and service delivery and therapy are delayed or unavailable; we will have won the battle but lost the war. Then there is the need for skillful multidisciplinary investigation and forensic interviewing that, when done effectively, decreases invasive and traumatic experiences for child victims.

Children’s Advocacy Centers provide such an approach. A multidisciplinary team, including law enforcement, child welfare workers, victim services, and medical and mental health professionals, work together in a dedicated, child-friendly environment to participate in a coordinated investigation.

Through this coordinated investigation, an interview is conducted by a trained forensic interviewer to gather the child’s statements without subjecting him or her to repeat questioning, and expert and sensitive physicians and nurses conduct the medical exam.

Too many abused and vulnerable children are never connected to effective cross-disciplinary investigations and comprehensive interventions; this is a compelling issue in need of attention. Protecting our children is not simply a matter of dollars and cents, but words alone will not keep children safe.

The words and legitimate outrage that brought about the task force must now be matched by prevention-focused laws and a commitment that scarce resources will be directed into services that show promise or have proven they promote the safety, well-being and permanency of children and youth.

Dr. David Turkewitz is chairman of pediatrics at York Hospital and the immediate past president of Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Gary Shuey retired as the administrator for the Cumberland County Children and Youth Services.

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Penn State University's tab hits $3.2 million
in Jerry Sandusky scandal
— By JEFF FRANTZ, The Patriot-News | Updated: Tue, Feb 14, 2012, 8:48 AM
— links in original

By the end of 2011, Penn State had spent nearly $3.2 million on consultants, investigators and lawyers to deal with the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

The school published the information Monday on a new website — openess.psu.edu — in what it says is an effort to be more transparent. Penn State said it will update the site with new information.

Penn State revealed that as of Dec. 31, it had spent $3.2 million on crisis communications, former FBI director Louis Freeh’s internal investigation, legal services for the university, external investigations and legal defense for former President Graham Spanier, former Athletic Director Tim Curley and former Vice President Gary Schultz.

Penn State paid almost $1.5 million to Freeh’s firm and almost $300,000 on public relations for Freeh, university spokesman Bill Mahon said. Also, Penn State had paid more than $200,000 in legal fees for Spanier, Curley and Schultz, Mahon said.

Any Sandusky-related costs not covered by insurance policies will be paid from a fund of interest payments due to the university — not tuition, taxpayer money or donations.

Penn State also revealed that Spanier began a “one-year professional development and post-presidency transition period” once he was ousted after 16 years as president. Any ongoing payments to Spanier are confidential, the university said. Spanier has tenure and is expected to continue as a faculty member when he returns from his sabbatical.

The new website comes as Penn State’s expenses come under fresh scrutiny.

Last month, state Sen. Mike Stack, D-Philadelphia, sent a letter to school President Rodney Erickson asking for information about the school’s insurance policies. Stack has said he would issue subpoenas to get the information if necessary. He also plans to propose legislation to keep taxpayer money from paying for any Sandusky-related expenses.

The university expects insurance policies to cover most of the costs. The other costs will be paid with interest revenue from loans previously made by the university. That fund has more than $16 million in it, Mahon said.

Penn State’s expenses

The total spent by Penn State University on expenses related to the Sandusky scandal as of Dec. 31 was $3,196,517.24:

Board of Trustees – Internal investigation

— Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan: $1,146,825.00
— Domus, Inc. (news conference and P.R. for Louis Freeh): $111,164.00
— Kekst and Company Inc. (public relations for Freeh): $172,563.00
— Ketchum (crisis management for board): $499,370.00
— Reed Smith LLP: $506,162.00
— Other: $32,053.00

Total BOT internal investigation: $2,468,137.00

University legal defense

— Saul Ewing: $172,658.27
— Duane Morris: $65,771.02
— Lanny J. Davis & Associates (legal advice and crisis management): $26,354.00
— Other: $94,952.15

Total university legal defense: $359,735.44

Employees’ legal defense

— Farrell & Reisinger: $65,842.23
— Vaira & Riley: $61,769.38
— Caroline M. Roberto: $82,697.52

Total Employees’ Legal Defense: $210,309.13

External investigations

— Margolis & Healy: $46,173.71
— Lightfoot Franklin White LLC: $3,711.50
— Other: $245.30

Total External Investigations: $50,130.51

Legal fees for contract negotiations

— Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP: $88,205.16
— ML Strategies: $20,000.00

Total contract negotiations: $108,205.16

— Source: Penn State university relations

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Feds seek PSU hard drives, financial info in Sandusky case
February 24, 2012|By Jeremy Roebuck and Susan Snyder, INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS

Computer hard drives of top Pennsylvania State University administrators and information on payments the school's trustees made to outside groups were among the items federal prosecutors subpoenaed from the university this month.

That detailed list was released a day after Penn State acknowledged that its records had drawn scrutiny from yet another agency looking into child sex abuse allegations against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

"Penn State is fully cooperating with this request for information," spokeswoman Lisa Powers said Friday.

The subpoena, issued by U.S. Attorney Peter J. Smith, was dated Feb. 2 and gave Penn State officials until Wednesday to comply.

It requested the hard drives of Sandusky, former university president Graham B. Spanier, suspended athletic director Tim Curley, and retired vice president Gary Schultz, who oversaw the campus police.

Additionally, prosecutors are seeking information on payments members of the university's board of trustees may have made directly to Penn State or to other organizations on its behalf.

E-mails, complaints, and records of interviews regarding Sandusky or the Second Mile, the charity for underprivileged youths he founded in 1977, were also requested.

The subpoena orders the university to preserve all internal communications pertaining to Sandusky dating back to 1998, the year some officials at Penn State first learned of allegations about the assistant coach.

According to state prosecutors, Sandusky became the target that year of a joint investigation by Penn State and State College police and child welfare workers after a mother reported he had hugged her 11-year-old son while showering with him in the nude.

Detectives spent weeks looking into the claims, even eavesdropping on a conversation between Sandusky and the boy's mother in which the coach purportedly admitted to the shower, apologized, and said he wished he were dead.

But social workers ultimately determined that abuse claims were unfounded and campus police closed their case.

Several top university administrators, including Curley, have maintained that they were never aware of its existence, as did longtime football coach Joe Paterno, who died last month.

Still, the lengthy report on the incident generated by campus police has become a part of the state investigation that led to Sandusky's arrest.

In November, a state grand jury accused Sandusky of molesting at least 10 boys over a 15-year period.

According to the panel's findings, the former defensive coordinator met his victims through the Second Mile and abused many of them at campus athletic facilities or on officially sanctioned school trips.

At least one purported victim told grand jurors that Sandusky took him to the 1998 Outback Bowl in Tampa, Fla., and the 1999 Alamo Bowl in San Antonio, Texas, as part of the official Penn State entourage. Once there, the report says, Sandusky molested him in hotel rooms and threatened to send him home if he resisted.

Authorities in both cities have said they have launched their own investigations into whether prosecutable crimes occurred within their jurisdictions.

If Sandusky took the child across state lines for the purpose of committing a crime, those trips could also constitute a violation of federal law. Also, any contact Sandusky may have had with his purported victims over the Internet could come under federal purview.

A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania declined to comment Friday on the subpoena sent to the university.

Phone calls made to Gordon A. D. Zubrod, the assistant U.S. attorney whose name appears at the bottom of the letter that accompanied it, were not returned.

Zubrod was one of the lead prosecutors in the corruption trial of two former Luzerne County judges accused of jailing juveniles in for-profit detention centers in exchange for millions in kickbacks.

Sandusky, 68, remains under house arrest, awaiting trial on 52 counts of sexual assault. He has denied the charges.

Curley and Schultz face charges for purportedly lying under oath about their knowledge of a 2002 incident in which Sandusky was reportedly seen assaulting a boy in the football locker room. Both have said they were not made aware of the severity of the claim.

The handling of that incident led to Spanier's resignation and the university's decision in November to fire Paterno.

Attorneys representing Curley, Schultz, and Spanier did not return calls for comment Friday.

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FBI set to investigate Sandusky LOL
Jerry Sandusky Records From Penn State University Sought by U.S. Attorney
By Sophia Pearson - Feb 25, 2012 12:00 AM ET

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-2 ... state.html

The U.S. Attorney’s Office subpoenaed records in the sexual-abuse case of former Pennsylvania State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.



see link for full story
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/27/siu.fb ... index.html
CNN exclusive: FBI misconduct reveals sex, lies and videotape

By Scott Zamost and Kyra Phillips, CNN Special Investigations Unit
January 27, 2011



Washington (CNN) -- An FBI employee shared confidential information with his girlfriend, who was a news reporter, then later threatened to release a sex tape the two had made.

A supervisor watched pornographic videos in his office during work hours while "satisfying himself."

And an employee in a "leadership position" misused a government database to check on two friends who were exotic dancers and allowed them into an FBI office after hours.

These are among confidential summaries of FBI disciplinary reports obtained by CNN, which describe misconduct by agency supervisors, agents and other employees over the last three years.

Read the FBI documents obtained by CNN








-- An employee had "a sexual relationship with a source" over seven months. The punishment was a 40-day suspension.
-- The supervisor who viewed "pornographic movies in the office while sexually satisfying himself" during work hours received a 35-day suspension.
-- The employee in a "leadership position" who misused a "government database to conduct name checks on two friends who were foreign nationals employed as exotic dancers" and "brought the two friends into FBI space after-hours without proper authorization" received a 23-day suspension. The same employee had been previously suspended for misusing a government database.
-- An employee who was drunk "exploited his FBI employment at a strip club," falsely claiming he was "conducting an official investigation." His punishment was a 30-day suspension.
-- And an employee conducted "unauthorized searches on FBI databases" for "information on public celebrities the employee thought were 'hot'" received a 30-day suspension.


Child Porn Probe Leads To FBI Headquarters
Target claims inquiry is just a “misunderstanding”
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/ ... adquarters
JANUARY 5 2011--The government’s pursuit of suspects trafficking in child pornography recently led federal agents to a familiar address--the FBI’s Washington, D.C. headquarters, where a bureau official is the subject of an ongoing criminal probe, The Smoking Gun has learned.

The investigation by the Department of Justice’s inspector general is focusing on FBI employee Joseph Bonsuk’s receipt of nearly 80 illicit images that were e-mailed to him by an Illinois sex offender whose rap sheet includes felony convictions for bank robbery and solicitation of a minor.


Prosecutors move to dismiss charges against former Scout leader

January 3, 2007

NEW HAVEN, Conn. --Federal prosecutors have moved to dismiss charges against a retired FBI agent who was indicted on child sex charges dating back more than a decade when he was a Boy Scout leader, in response to the death of his accuser.


William Hutton, 63, of Killingworth, was arrested in February on charges he enticed a member of his Scout troop to Maine for the purpose of sexual activity in 1994 and 1995.


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http://www.headwatersproductions.com/pr ... icle5.html
Edward Rodgers was in charge of investigating cases of Child Abuse at the FBI

THE DENVER POST - Voice of the Rocky Mountain Empire
May 17, 1990
Sisters win sex lawsuit vs. dad $2.3 million given for years of abuse
By Howard Prankratz
Denver Post Legal Affairs Writer

Two daughters of former state and federal law enforcement official Edward Rodgers were awarded $2.319,400 yesterday, after a Denver judge and jury found that the women suffered years of abuse at the hands of their father.

The award to Sharon Simone, 45, and Susan Hammond, 44, followed testimony of Rodgers’ four daughters in person or through depositions, describing repeated physical abuse and sexual assaults by their father from 1944 through 1965.

Rodgers, 72, who became a child abuse expert after retiring from the FBI and joining the colorado Springs DA’s office, failed to appear for the trial. But in a deposition taken in March, Rodgers denied ever hitting or sexually abusing his children.

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FBI Agent Pleads Guilty to Child Abuse


Tuesday February 17, 2004 11:46 PM

By JOHN SOLOMON

Associated Press Writer
https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forum ... 1077052156
WASHINGTON (AP) - The former chief internal watchdog at the FBI has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl and has admitted he had a history of molesting other children before he joined the bureau for what became a two-decade career.

John H. Conditt Jr., 53, who retired in 2001, was sentenced last week to 12 years in prison in Tarrant County court in Fort Worth, Texas, after he admitted he molested the daughter of two FBI agents after he retired. He acknowledged molesting at least two other girls before he began his law enforcement career, his lawyer said.

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Monday August 8, 2005 Longtime FBI agent sentenced to prison on child porn count
http://www.fbi.gov/kansascity/press-rel ... 033110.htm
also see http://www.policeone.com/news/113935-Lo ... hild-Porn/
By JOHN MILLER

Associated Press Writer

BOISE, Idaho (AP) A longtime FBI agent who helped arrest mountain-man Claude Dallas and was involved in a deadly 1984 siege involving white supremacists in Washington state is going to prison for 12 months after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography.

William Buie, 64, of Boise, most recently worked as an investigator for the Idaho attorney general's office.


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February 22, 2007
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007 ... 007/262383
SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. A F.B.I. analyst has been sentenced to seven years in prison for having sex with a young girl in Spotsylvania County.
Forty-four-year-old Anthony John Lesko entered an Alford plea yesterday in Spotsylvania County Circuit Court to nine counts of felony indecent liberties upon a child. An Alford plea means Lesko doesn't admit guilt but believes there is enough evidence for a conviction.
Authorities say Lesko engaged in a sex act with her nine times, beginning when she was nine years old.
According to the plea, Lesko said he was a victim in the case. He said the girl initiated the contact.

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FBI Agent Accused Of Masturbating In Public
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index. ... _pris.html
May 25, 2007 09:02 PM
FBI Agent Accused Of Masturbating In Public

Posted by, Marissa Pasquet KOLD News 13 News Editor

FBI Special Agent Ryan Seese, 34, is facing sex offense charges after a cleaning woman said she found him masturbating in a women's lavatory on campus, according to a University of Arizona police spokesman.


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FBI agent arrested on child sexual assault charge




Associated Press - January 15, 2008 6:14 PM ET
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_7978377
PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) - An FBI agent is under arrest in Pueblo for investigation of sexual assault on a child by someone in a position of trust.

Authorities say 53-year-old David Allan Johnson is being held in the Pueblo County jail today on a $100,000 bail.

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Former Great Falls FBI agent sentenced on child sex charges

Jan 23, 2008



A man from Great Falls who's accused of sexually assaulting five underage girls will be spending the next 10 years behind bars.

Stanley Perkins, 64, changed his plea to guilty after police began investigating him for child molestation in August 2006.

The former educator, who also served two years as an FBI agent, was sentenced on one count of felony sexual assault.

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see link for full story
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/crime- ... ormer.html
Jail for former FBI worker from Va.
Washington Post Editors

A 65-year-old former FBI employee from Prince William County was sentenced to nearly four years in prison Friday for possessing child pornography.

Samuel I. Kaplan, of Gainesville, who pleaded guilty June 2 in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, was sentenced to 46 months behind bars.

Kaplan was an information technology program manager at an FBI facility in Chantilly when authorities discovered that he had used the FBI's computer network to "facilitate sexually explict communications," the Justice Department said.

Investigators said they later found 10 to 20 images on Kaplan's home computer showing juveniles involved in sex acts.

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http://franklincoverup.com/index.php?op ... &Itemid=26

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a species that hires bodyguards to protect them looses the ability to protect itself and is doomed to extinction

Is this the same US Marshall that was assaulted by the FBI agent?




Ex-FBI agent gets 2 1/2 years for assault on marshal



A federal judge today sentenced retired FBI special agent Gary L. John
to 2 ½ years in prison for assaulting a U.S. marshal trying to place him
under arrest.



John, formerly of 110 Post Rd., Westerly, had been on the lam for two
months, when U.S. marshals working with Rhode Island Sheriffs
Department, tracked him to Stratford, Conn., in December 2005. He was
wanted in Rhode Island at the time for allegedly violating orders
barring him from contacting his ex-wife and for failing to appear in
court.

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http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-0 ... -fbi-agent
FBI agent convicted of daughters' abuse
July 11, 1993|By Traci A. Johnson | Traci A. Johnson,Staff Writer

An FBI agent who lives in Carroll County has been convicted of sexually abusing his daughters over a 14-year period.

The agent, as part of an agreement with prosecutors, pleaded guilty Friday before Circuit Judge Francis M. Arnold to two counts of second-degree sexual offense and two counts of child abuse.

The agent's name is being withheld to protect the privacy of the victims.

In exchange for the agent's plea, the state dropped 18 other counts against him, ordered a presentence investigation and agreed to let him remain free on $125,000 bond pending sentencing Sept. 10.

The agent was suspended from the FBI's Baltimore field office when he was arrested in December.

The original indictment also charged the man with fondling his oldest daughter's friend several years ago when the girl had slept over at the agent's home.

An investigation began after one of the man's daughters told a county child-abuse investigator of at least five incidents of molestation from 1980 to 1987, court documents said.

The victims said their father performed sexual acts ranging from fondling to intercourse beginning when each was preschool age. The abuse lasted until the girls were in their early teens, said Assistant State's Attorney Kathi Hill in a statement of facts presented in court.

In February, defense attorney John E. Harris Sr. tried unsuccessfully to have the case moved out of Carroll on the grounds that pretrial publicity had damaged the defendant's chance for a fair trial.

Ms. Hill said the state will recommend a sentence of 35 years in state prison, with 15 years suspended.

Although Ms. Hill said she once argued that the agent should be incarcerated until his trial, she said Friday she was not worried about whether he will return for his sentencing.

"Even if he'd take a walk, when he eventually comes back he wouldn't have to be tried again. He'd just be sentenced," Ms. Hill said. "There's not so much fear on our part, because we don't have to prove the case again."

The state will ask the court, as part of the agent's sentence, to impose five years of supervised probation and order him to have no contact with females under 18 and to undergo psychological therapy.

Judge Arnold also accepted a plea agreement Friday in which a Mount Airy hairdresser admitted sexually abusing a teen-age boy he befriended in 1990.

David Curtis Flynn of Grimes Court in Mount Airy was immediately sentenced to four years in prison for a second-degree sexual offense.

From January 1991 to November 1992, Flynn had a sexual relationship with the boy, whose family knew and trusted the man, according to a statement of facts that Ms. Hill read in court.

The victim told authorities that Flynn talked to him before the incidents, saying he had been abused as a child, Ms. Hill said.

"I am deeply sorry . . . in my soul," Flynn said. "None of my attentions were meant as wrongdoing. I showed [the victim] the kind of love and affection I was brought up with. I'm deeply sorry for upsetting his childhood."

Judge Arnold sentenced Flynn to 10 years in state prison, then suspended six years of the term.

The judge also ordered five years of supervised probation for the defendant after the prison term and ordered him to participate in all recommended treatment programs.




EX-FBI AGENT JOHN LANDS IN JAIL - AGAIN

By Ryan McBride - The Sun Staff



WAKEFIELD - A former FBI agent from Westerly has returned to prison
after a series of recent arrests for violating a court order to stay
away from his ex-wife.



John served 15 months at the ACI for a criminal conviction of violating a
restraining order in March 2002. His suspended sentence and probation
from the conviction end in 2012.



According to court records, state police arrested John in February 2002
on a disorderly conduct charge for exposing himself in public.

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Catholic Church launches global centre against child abuse

VATICAN CITY — The Catholic Church launched an international Internet centre against pedophilia on Thursday at the close of a four-day Vatican summit aimed at ending decades of abuses and cover-ups.

The new e-learning Centre for Child Protection will be based in Germany, with partners in Argentina, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy and Kenya, seeking to bring together research and ways to prevent clerical abuse.

The centre “is only one part of a renewal of the Church,” Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the archbishop of Munich, said at a press conference.

“This historical hour obliges us to an attitude both of humility and action . . . The loss of credibility is far from over but we will rebuild credibility step by step,” he said.

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Penn State board of trustees has long been led by businesspeople
— By JEFF FRANTZ, The Patriot-News
— Monday, March 05, 2012, 9:23 AM

In the 1980s, Penn State was brimming with ambition.

Joe Paterno was in the process of winning two national titles. The campus and the nation were convinced his “grand experiment” had worked. Interest in the school was up. Those who ran the university decided Penn State could no longer just be another good state school.

Everything had to be bigger. And better.

Penn State wanted to become a world leader in research. It needed to hire the best professors, teach more students, erect buildings and, for the first time, establish a serious endowment.

That transformation required two things: money and contacts.

The people most able to proved those two crucial ingredients just happened to be members of the board of trustees representing business and industry.

As Penn State moved up the national rankings, and a Penn State degree grew more prestigious, those trustees and their allies acquired the dominant voice on the 32-member board.

“By the nature of their positions, they have the contacts, the wealth and the connections so that when its necessary to do things — they have leverage in many ways,” said Ben Novak, a former alumni trustee now attempting to return to the board.

Before Jerry Sandusky, Tim Curley and Gary Schultz were arrested in November, few questioned the trustees’ stewardship, either inside or outside the board room.

Since then, alumni factions have demanded broad-based reform and more influence in decision-making. Eighty-six alumni are campaigning for the three alumni seats up for election this spring, promising to reclaim control of the university.

So when the winners emerge May 4, who will control the board?

If history is any indication, business and industry.

Consider: Karen Peetz, CEO of financial markets and treasury services for the Bank of New York Mellon, was elected chairwoman on her first term on the board.

Nothing new there. Since 1993, a business and industry trustee has always been either chairman or vice chairman of the board.

Business and industry trustees hold six of the nine seats on the board’s executive committee.

Kenneth Frazier, the Merck CEO also in his first term on the board, is the chairman of the committee on educational policy and the committee overseeing former FBI director Louis Freeh’s investigation into the Sandusky scandal.

Linda Strumpf, retired chief investment officer of the Helmsley Charitable Trust, heads one of the two other standing committees.

Once called industrial trustees, the state’s manufacturing, engineering and mining societies chose these board members. But after complaints that the Pennsylvania Manufactures Association carried too much influence, the election was scrapped.

Now a group of trustees nominates people to represent business and industry. The entire board votes to confirm. No outside influence required.

The terms for Frazier and Edward Hintz Jr. expire this summer.

Frazier’s spokesman declined to say if Frazier is seeking a re-appointment, but he is widely expected to return, because the Freeh report is not expected until next fall.

Hintz, president of his investment firm, did not return calls seeking comment. Having sat on the board since 1994, he will likely still have his seat if he wants it.

Business and industry trustees generally enjoy long stays on the board.

Since 1990, all but one business and industry trustee served at least three consecutive terms. The exception, Ira Lubert, later became a governor appointee. Each of those long-serving trustees except William Weiss, retired CEO of Ameritech, was later named an emeriti trustee. He sat on the board of directors for Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

“Most of them fit into the power group because of their money, wealth and longevity,” Novak said. “And most of them can be assured of longevity.”

Indeed. A major research institution needs money, and these trustees can find it.

The business and industry trustees have also served as some of Penn State’s most important fundraisers.

William Schreyer, onetime CEO and chairman of Merrill Lynch, took charge of the Campaign for Penn State, the university’s first comprehensive fundraising initiative in 1984. That brought in $352 million. In 1986, he was elected to the board. Eleven years later, he and his wife donated $30 million to endow the honors college.

When Penn State launched its next fundraising initiative in 1997, the business and industry trustees were there to lead the way.

James Broadhurst, the Eat’n Park chairman, and Hintz each spent time as chairman of the Grand Destiny campaign. Hintz also led the committees to raise money for the Bryce Jordan Center and the Paterno Library.

J. Lloyd Huck, retired board chairman at Merck, and his wife donated the $7 million that pushed the Grand Destiny campaign past its $1 billion goal. In total, Huck and his wife have given more than $21 million Huck to Penn State.

After seven years, the Grand Destiny campaign raised more than $1.3 billion.

Edward Junker III, retired vice chairman of PNC, sat on the committees for both major campaigns.

Schreyer, Broadhurst, Hintz, Huck and Junker all served a term as board chairman.

Does all this mean they dynamic of the board is forever frozen?

Not necessarily.

If alumni elect reform candidates in the next three elections, they would have a nine-member voting block. If some of those elected happen to be major Penn State donors, such as candidate Anthony Lubrano, maybe their influence grows.

Gov. Tom Corbett could use his two annual appointments to place reformers on the board.

Or the Legislature could move to restructure the board, though no one expects that anytime soon.

Bob Horst, a former trustee and longtime critic of the business and industry trustees, said three fiery alumni trustees would only be a start.

“Three new activist alumni trustees won’t be able to rock the boat, but they will get the attention of the board leadership and begin to make a difference in the culture,” Horst said. “Board leadership will need to pick one or more of them for a committee chairmanship or officer position before they can have a major impact on governance.”

Until then, expect control to stay of the board to stay right where it is, and has been.

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Penn State makes changes based on investigation,
university president says
— The Associated Press | Updated Fri, March 16, 2012, 2:15 PM

Penn State’s president says the university is implementing recommendations offered by Louis Freeh, the ex-FBI director leading an internal investigation into child sex abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky.

Rodney Erickson told the board of trustees this afternoon that the university is enhancing background checks for staff working with children and adding more staffers to oversee its compliance with various federal laws and NCAA rules.

More on PSU's changes

He said Penn State will immediately retrieve keys, access cards and other property from people who aren’t formally associated with the university. Sandusky, charged with sexually assaulting youths on campus, had a key to the football building long after his 1999 retirement.

Freeh’s investigation is focusing on whether Penn State did enough to stop Sandusky from assaulting youths.

The results of Freeh’s investigation is expected later this year.

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Don't know if any of you have read Dave McGowan's new post(s). His Laurel Canyon update is kind of ho-hum, but this: http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/2012.html is quite something:

"Another sign that the Sandusky case runs far deeper than the media would have us believe can be found in the curious story of Ray Frank Gricar, the longtime Pennsylvania District Attorney who opted not to prosecute Sandusky back in 1998. On April 15, 2005, just months before his scheduled retirement, Gricar went missing and has never been heard from since. While his abandoned car was found, his keys, wallet and other personal effects, including his laptop computer, went missing as well. His laptop was ultimately found, but without the hard drive, which was later found destroyed.



Gricar was declared legally dead on July 25, 2011, just a few months before the Sandusky case broke into the news. To make the Gricar story just a little more bizarre, Roy Gricar, Ray’s older brother, had gone missing under remarkably similar circumstances back in May 1996. The elder Gricar’s body was recovered from a river and his death was ruled a suicide. Until shortly before his death, Ray Gricar had been working as a private contractor at Wright Patterson Air Force Base."
Just another Franklin Cover-Up. With almost the exact same cast of characters.

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Breaking: Penn State Police Had Warnings About Sandusky in 1998 | NBC 10 Philadelphia

NBC News obtained the 1998 PSU internal police file from an investigation of Sandusky showering naked with a little boy in the school's locker room
By NBC News and Karen Araiza
| Saturday, Mar 24, 2012 | Updated 8:28 AM EDT

Psychologist Alycia Chambers warned Penn State police about Jerry Sandusky's behavior in 1998, telling them Sandusky had showered naked with an 11-year-old boy and bear-hugged him. NBC News has obtained the internal Penn State police file on the investigation.

* Sandusky Asks Judge to Dismiss Charges
* Sandusky Charity Investigation
* Victim No. 6
* Grand Jury Report

"This was behavior that is consistent with a male predator, a pedophile," Chambers told NBC reporter Michael Isikoff.

The little boy, now known as Victim No. 6, was Chambers' client. She interviewed him the day after the alleged incident and then warned Penn State police that Sandusky's behavior fit a likely pedophile's pattern.

"I wish you could see the precious little face and the tiny little boy who appeared before me," Chambers said. She is speaking for the first time with the family's permission.

"After they finished lifting weights and they were sitting, I was told that Mr. Sandusky kissed him on the head and said 'I love you,'" Chambers recalled.

She wrote a report for police, and during their investigation, Penn State police hid in a bedroom and listened as the little boy's mother confronted Sandusky, asking him if he'd touched her son's private parts. According to court documents, Sandusky said he didn't think so, but wasn't sure. She asked him if he'd done the same thing with other boys and Sandusky said, 'Yes' and that he wished he could get forgiveness. "I wish I were dead," he told her, according to court records.

But authorities brought in a second psychologist and he concluded there was no evidence of a sexual offense. Sandusky's lawyer has said that he hopes to use that information in the trial -- that this psychologist said he had not heard of a 52-year old man becoming a pedophile.

Walter Cohen, a former Pennsylvania Attorney General, told Isikoff that Sandusky should have been put on a watch list of suspected child abusers, but that instead, the case was closed.

Chambers said she was stunned when police contacted her again last year before prosecutors charged the former Penn State assistant football coach with more than 50 counts of child sex abuse involving 10 boys.

"I was horrified. . .that so many other innocent boys who had been subject to this; who had had their hearts and minds confused; their bodies violated. It's unspeakable," Chambers said.

Penn State told NBC News it could not comment, citing the pending investigation.

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/bre ... 77776.html

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Click link below to view the posted video,
which looks and sounds like a game wrap up.

Jerry Sandusky Trial Video Blog for June 14, 2012
— WNEP | Scranton/Wilkes-Barre

It took just four days for the prosecution to present the witnesses and evidence it has against Jerry Sandusky. Now it appears the defense of the former PSU football coaching great could begin Monday. Newswatch 16′s Jim Hamill & Jon Meyer provide this wrap-up.

Questions or comments? Leave them here or find me on Twitter (@JimHamill) and use #Sandusky.

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REFER RI THREADS Sandusky Child Rape Research Questions Resource | Louis Freeh Penn State Pedo Investigator | The Pedophile File

[bks]

Breaking: Penn State Police Had Warnings About Sandusky in 1998 | NBC 10 Philadelphia

NBC News obtained the 1998 PSU internal police file from an investigation of Sandusky showering naked with a little boy in the school's locker room
By NBC News and Karen Araiza
| Saturday, Mar 24, 2012 | Updated 8:28 AM EDT

Psychologist Alycia Chambers warned Penn State police about Jerry Sandusky's behavior in 1998, telling them Sandusky had showered naked with an 11-year-old boy and bear-hugged him. NBC News has obtained the internal Penn State police file on the investigation. . .

"This was behavior that is consistent with a male predator, a pedophile," Chambers told NBC reporter Michael Isikoff.

The little boy, now known as Victim No. 6, was Chambers' client. She interviewed him the day after the alleged incident and then warned Penn State police that Sandusky's behavior fit a likely pedophile's pattern. . .

She wrote a report for police, and during their investigation, Penn State police hid in a bedroom and listened as the little boy's mother confronted Sandusky, asking him if he'd touched her son's private parts. According to court documents, Sandusky said he didn't think so, but wasn't sure. She asked him if he'd done the same thing with other boys and Sandusky said, 'Yes' and that he wished he could get forgiveness. "I wish I were dead," he told her, according to court records.

But authorities brought in a second psychologist and he concluded there was no evidence of a sexual offense. Sandusky's lawyer has said that he hopes to use that information in the trial -- that this psychologist said he had not heard of a 52-year old man becoming a pedophile.

Walter Cohen, a former Pennsylvania Attorney General, told Isikoff that Sandusky should have been put on a watch list of suspected child abusers, but that instead, the case was closed.

36. Who was this second psychologist who found "no evidence of a sexual offense"? On what precise basis was this determination made?
37. And who closed the case afterwards?

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Hello, bks, I’ve read them, and many
thanks for your kind acknowledgements.

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Just so you know, I’m not a parent, and I don’t visit sites in which parental ideas are discussed. So, it shouldn’t be surprising that at first glance I thought the pedobear was abhorrent— a contradiction —and I wouldn’t validate it by posting a pic. Of all the symbols that could’ve been used, someone chose what is to some parents an apparently well known teddy bear to represent an alert when commenters are posting unseemly ideas about children. A person costumed in the recognizable bear outfit showed up in front of the county courthouse in which the Sandusky trial has been taking place.

The bear was first found by me today at Pennlive dot com.

You may do research here.

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http://www.pedobear.org/