The Pedophile File

[justdrew]

Just Melvin, Just Evil - Classic Documentary about Abuse
I've posted this for a dear friend of mine. "Just Melvin, Just Evil" is a very hard to find documentary about the tormented family of Melvin Just, a man almost too evil to be believed. In it, they detail their experiences of abuse over decades, at his hands, even admitting to knowing of a murder he committed to keep his crimes quiet.

[Luther Blissett]

Joe Paterno Was A Dictator: Penn State Deserved Its Punishment
Buzz Bissinger says Penn State alumni will whine and wallow in self-pity after the NCAA punishment, but the culture of college football needs to be banished—too bad it’s too late.

by Buzz Bissinger  | July 24, 2012 9:47 AM EDT
The statue of Joe Paterno has been removed, covered in a blue tarplin and carted off into the dust and dark of storage. There was always something strange and eerie about that statue, the smiling and bespectacled presence of the legendary coach emblazoned into bronze, as if Penn State wasn’t an academic institution at all but a kind of football theme park, Welcome to JoePa Land.


Penn State students react as the NCAA sanctions against the university's football program are announced on July 23. (Gene J. Puskar / AP Photos)

A man of lesser ego would never have permitted a statue to be built of him. He would have seen the wrongful idolatry of it, a living monument in the way that despotic leaders insist on being living monuments. But as we all know now, Joe Paterno had no lesser ego. He was all ego behind the tattered sweater on the sidelines and the studied avuncularity off the sidelines that too many thousands mistook for accessibility. Quoting Virgil does not make you a learned man, just as saying hello to students does not make you a man of the people. It would seem that college coaches should say hello to college students on their college campus. Except in America.

Joe Paterno was the dictator of Penn State, the more football wins he accrued, the greater his invincibility. There is something sad and absurdly American about that, this insane notion that football actually serves some societal purpose beyond bread and circuses for the distracted masses. It is only in America that a football coach would be honored like that, molded into immortality. Such worship isn’t the way the country should be. It isn’t the way higher education should be.

It was an insult to students even if they were too drunk on football Saturdays in Happy Valley to know it, and an insult to faculty members who did know it but had been dumped into steerage by the football madness of a school too misguided to truly treasure its academic resources. Too many students, and too many alumni, and too many administrators, thought Penn State was only great because of its football. The institution and the game were inextricably linked. There was danger in that. The priorities were terribly and pathetically misplaced as they are at too many American universities. We see other countries mocking us and running economic circles around us and we wonder why.

But misplaced priorities at Penn State metastasized into something else entirely, a hideous tumor of shame and scandal. Paterno and top administrators willfully ignored the innumerable warnings and evidence of a sexual animal in their midst, aiding and abetting in his rape of little boys as they hemmed and hawed and wrote endless and empty emails to each other as if that was somehow taking action.

Buzz Bissinger discusses Joe Paterno and the Sandusky trial.

So many knew that former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky showered with little boys. Some knew that he fondled them, and was sexually inappropriate with them, and approached them from behind with the unmistakable slapping sound of skin ramming into skin. But nobody did anything. That’s what happens when you idolize a football coach who has ruled for too long and has become insulated by power like all men of power become insulated by power, has no world outside of the football program he has created, is only interested in the preservation of it even if it means some buttf---ing here and there. All part of the trade-off.

But it’s over now, although it will never be over for the victims raped and molested by Sandusky. There is a resolution. There is a black hole in the core of Penn State, 23 football seasons vaporized and the school hit with enough sanctions yesterday by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to destroy the program for a decade and maybe forever.

The loss of roughly 10 football scholarships a year for four years. A ban for a similar length of time on postseason play. Every win between 1998 and 2011 vacated, which no longer makes Joe Paterno the winningest coach in college football history. A penalty of $60 million.

The punishment is appropriate and deserved, the swiftness of it surprising given the NCAA's history of taking too long to do nothing, little more than a cash register for the college-sports industrial complex.

Football is a business and college-bound big-time players and their families are wise and entrepreneurial. Dad and Mom want their sons to go to teams that win and are nationally ranked. They want their sons to play for teams that will be in bowl games. They want maximum exposure for their sons. Penn State fit that criteria for 30-odd years, but not anymore.

The new coach, Bill O’Brien, is trying to pump up the existing troops with the us-against-the world mentality, the lesson of what happened at Penn State utterly lost on him. No big surprise. The rally cry may work for a little bit, but Penn State will no longer be nationally competitive. The blue-chip recruits that routinely came to the school will no longer matriculate. The few that remain can now transfer without any loss of eligibility. The team will routinely lose and for all the vows of loyalty, Beaver Stadium will no longer come close to filling up with 110,000 strong.

The football culture at Penn State has no choice but to diminish, and one can only hope, for the sake of the school, that the diminishment is permanent.

The University of Chicago dropped football in 1939. The school left the Big Ten after its president, Robert Hutchins, concluded that football had no place in an academic setting. The alumni whined and wallowed in the self-pity of a football-less life, a psychic suicide. But the University of Chicago, last time I checked, has 87 Nobel Prize winners among its faculty and alumni.

Penn State is one of the finest publicly supported universities in the United States. The success of football helped to build the school, but the school no longer needs the crutch of the game to continue on that path. In the wacked-up environment in which America lives today, we call the sanctions by the NCCA “punishment.” But the sanctions are not remotely punishment if the end result is to push academics to the forefront of the reputation of Penn State, and not the backside. That's a bonus, and it should be the priority of every college and university in America, but of course it is not.

The sanctions change Penn State, but they will not change the culture of college football. It is too late for that now, too many rabid alumni defining their college experience by wins and losses, too many millions shelled out for television rights by the true Darth Vader of college football, ESPN, too many coaches making two or three times more than the college president and still the warlords of the quadrangle.

It is doubtful any of them believe that what happened at Penn State was egregious enough to warrant more than the penalty meted out. Coaches are the most selfish men on the planet. They all stem from the same brotherhood and they are all fundamentally cowards when it comes to breaking free from the pack and saying what should be said. They are emboldened and reinforced by the stature we as a society give them. They look in the mirror and—don’t be fooled by the false humility of their postgame interviews—they see exactly what Joe Paterno saw, a living monument to their omnipotence and greatness.

Joe Paterno’s monument got taken down over the weekend. But as the frenzy of college football continues unabated with more piles of more money, there isn’t a single coach who will understand the symbolism of that. Which isn’t to say they are totally oblivious to what happened at Penn State. They will work harder than ever not to get caught in their own acts of immoral complicity.

[Peachtree Pam]

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index. ... rs_sa.html

Jerry Sandusky case: Lawyers say they've found Victim 2, the boy Mike McQueary saw being molested

Victim 2, the boy who was, until now, known to exist only because Mike McQueary saw him being molested by Jerry Sandusky in a Penn State shower in 2001, has come forward to two State College lawyers.

Andrew Shubin and Justine Andronici, two lawyers who launched their own investigation into Sandusky's activities over the last four decades -- and the reactions of people around him -- say that Victim 2 has identified himself to them.

As part of the investigation, they acquired voicemails from Sandusky to the man, and released those on www. rossfellercasey.com, the website of the Philadelphia law firm they are working with.

In both, Sandusky ends the message with "love you."


They released a statement that reads, in part:

"Our client suffered extensive sexual abuse over many years both before and after the 2001 incident Michael McQueary witnessed in the Penn State Lasch building shower.

"Penn State has now admitted and there is no longer any question that its top officials could have and should have prevented these acts.

"Jerry Sandusky's abuse of Victim 2 and other children is a direct result of a conspiracy to conceal Sandusky's conduct and the decisions by top Penn State officials that facilitated and enabled his access to victims.

"We intend to file a civil lawsuit against Penn State University and others and to hold them accountable for the egregious and reckless conduct that facilitated the horrific abuse our client suffered."

The mystery surrounding Victim 2 was a big part of Sandusky's case.

McQueary's story -- that he saw Sandusky and the boy in an "extremely sexual" position in a locker room shower late one night -- was scrutinized by many who saw inconsistencies and changes in details.

Then, Sandusky's lawyer, Joe Amendola, claimed to have found the boy, now a grown man, and said he would testify on Sandusky's behalf. That didn't happen.

The case of Victim 2 sparked a firestorm around who knew what at Penn State, since McQueary alleged that he told Joe Paterno he'd seen something inappropriate that night, then described it in more detail to athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz.

Both were charged with never reporting what McQueary told them, then lying about it a decade later before the Sandusky grand jury.

Shubin and Andronici were in contact have been working with Victim 2 since late 2011, when Amendola claimed to have talked to him.

Shubin and Andronici are now working with the Philadelphia law firm Ross Feller Casey.

Sandusky was convicted in June of 45 counts related to molesting 10 boys, including Victim 2.

[wetland]

I’ve heard of upward failure but this is ridiculous

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/201 ... ridiculous

July 25, 2012 | Paul Campos

What’s the most important job in America? I don’t know about you, but I’d say Protecting Our Freedoms is right up there. So it’s only natural that when the federal government hires somebody to run any aspect of our national security apparatus, it does the most thorough possible background check on the person. Excellent performance in one’s previous employment is the first thing they check on, right? (Just after they get the drug test back of course).

Ladies and gentleman, I give you your new Coordinator For Improved Cooperation Between National Security Agencies. Because if there’s one thing [disgraced former Penn State President] Graham Spanier knows how to do it’s to make sure that sensitive information doesn’t fall into the hands of the wrong people.

Update: A Nexis search reveals almost no mention of this story in the media. After the Sarah Ganim broke it the Harrisburg paper in April it was mentioned very briefly in the Pittsburgh Tribune and the National Journal. I guess it’s not news when somebody like Spanier lands a federal government job in the wake of what may well have been the most catastrophic presidency in the history of a major American university.

But wait there’s more: It turns out after he was fired Spanier had to get his top secret national security clearance renewed in order to be given whatever make-work sinecure important administrative position some friends in high places decided he should get. This took four months. So he not only got a job — he got the kind of job that required a bunch of important people to sign off on him getting it.

Ah . . . life in the meritocracy.

[Nordic]

I’ve heard of upward failure but this is ridiculous

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/201 ... ridiculous

July 25, 2012 | Paul Campos

What’s the most important job in America? I don’t know about you, but I’d say Protecting Our Freedoms is right up there. So it’s only natural that when the federal government hires somebody to run any aspect of our national security apparatus, it does the most thorough possible background check on the person. Excellent performance in one’s previous employment is the first thing they check on, right? (Just after they get the drug test back of course).

Ladies and gentleman, I give you your new Coordinator For Improved Cooperation Between National Security Agencies. Because if there’s one thing [disgraced former Penn State President] Graham Spanier knows how to do it’s to make sure that sensitive information doesn’t fall into the hands of the wrong people.

Update: A Nexis search reveals almost no mention of this story in the media. After the Sarah Ganim broke it the Harrisburg paper in April it was mentioned very briefly in the Pittsburgh Tribune and the National Journal. I guess it’s not news when somebody like Spanier lands a federal government job in the wake of what may well have been the most catastrophic presidency in the history of a major American university.

But wait there’s more: It turns out after he was fired Spanier had to get his top secret national security clearance renewed in order to be given whatever make-work sinecure important administrative position some friends in high places decided he should get. This took four months. So he not only got a job — he got the kind of job that required a bunch of important people to sign off on him getting it.

Ah . . . life in the meritocracy.

Holy shit. At least it just hit the Washington Post. That's something, right?

From cryptogon: http://cryptogon.com/?p=30587

Disgraced Former Penn State University President Now Working for U.S. Government in National Security Role

Echos of the Franklin imbroglio.

Via: Washington Post:

Graham Spanier might have been ousted from his post at the helm of Penn State over the sex-abuse scandal that engulfed the university, but it seems he’s found a backup employer: the American taxpayer.

Only a disgraced public figure would consider joining the much-maligned ranks of the federal workforce as a step up, reputation-wise. We can assume there were no openings for a used-car salesman.

Spanier was faulted in an internal Penn State report after the conviction on child-molestation charges of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. The report said he, head coach Joe Paterno and others helped cover up Sandusky’s abuse.

His lawyer confirms to the Loop that Spanier is working on a part-time consulting basis for a “top-secret” agency on national security issues. But the gig is so hush-hush, he couldn’t even tell his attorneys the name of the agency. In April — months after his ouster as president but before the release of the internal report — he told the Patriot-News of central Pennsylvania that he was working on a “special project for the U.S. government relating [to] national security.”

But who’s he working for? The CIA? Homeland Security? Or maybe just a dull consulting firm with a government contract?

“I have no idea,”says his lawyer, Peter Vaira. “We know the work is in security and he’s prohibited from disclosing which agency or agencies he’s working for.”

Methinks favors were granted, rewards were given. "Everybody knows" to quote Leonard Cohen.

And I don't mean to judge a book by its cover, but this guy is creepy-looking as hell:



Shiver ......

[jingofever]

Sandusky Child Porn Ring - Pedophile Ring? A DailyKos diary. Seems the FBI and Postal Service are investigating that pedophile ring there were rumors of when the scandal first broke.

The new investigation is also looking at if boys from the Second Mile charity were shared by Sandusky with other men, the source told
RadarOnline.com . The name of at least one very rich and powerful
man connected to the university has come up in this new investigation.

From RadarOnline.

[Allegro]

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Oh, my, THANK YOU, jingofever. Now we’re getting somewhere, at long last.

I went over to Daily Kos to find out if Edward Savitz’s name had been mentioned. And, it was— a name that appeared in M F Abernathy’s two posts beginning here in July 2012.

Here’s an excerpt from the dairy published at DK. Actually, this excerpt is just above the comments section on that page.

Bucceroni described the men he met at two Second Mile events...

“They were obviously wealthy—like doctors, attorneys, politicians and businessmen—and I could tell some were married from their wedding rings. But their body language gave away their intentions. On my second trip to TSM, I went with Savitz, another pedophile, and a boy my age. Savitz mingled with the other adults, discreetly showing them child porn pictures that he’d brought along. These are the kinds of places where guys from New York, Jersey and Pa. interact. Plus, with all the Penn State hoopla, TSM promoted itself as an alternative to jail or juvenile hall. They said it was the best thing since peanut butter and jelly. But Sandusky is just one in a handful of them. I hope you shine a light on this society of pedophiles.”

A Judge is to hear arguments next week regarding TSM’s plan to transfer its $2 million in assets to Texas nonprofit Arrow Child and Family Ministries.

Elvis posted a Huffington article in May, 2012, that states: “The State College-based charity [The Second Mile] began the legal process of dissolving itself Friday, submitting a plan to Centre County Court that would transfer its programs and millions of dollars in assets to Arrow Child & Family Ministries Inc., a $36 million charity that operates in Texas, Pennsylvania, Maryland, California and Honduras.”

Wait. Honduras? That’s another post, I think, with info already noted here at RI. We’ll see.

Thanks, again, jingofever.

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

[bks]

Good find, jingo. thx for the update.

From the radaronline.com article:

Criminal investigators from the United States Postal Inspectors are involved because sexual material involving underage boys may have been transmitted through the mail. The source says that the postal service seems to be leading this investigation, although Radar has not confirmed that information.

“The investigation is in its early stages,” the source added. “They have not yet cast a wide net but it is ongoing and it is serious.”

This last part is a bit worrying, since it almost has to be false. Madden was talking about an investigation (or at least allegations consistent with these investigations) nine months ago, and I doubt Sandusky sent or received anything pornographic in the mail since last November. Why would an investigation only be in the early stages now, unless it was going to go on for several years?

[dqueue]

Good find, jingo. thx for the update.

From the radaronline.com article:

Criminal investigators from the United States Postal Inspectors are involved because sexual material involving underage boys may have been transmitted through the mail. The source says that the postal service seems to be leading this investigation, although Radar has not confirmed that information.

“The investigation is in its early stages,” the source added. “They have not yet cast a wide net but it is ongoing and it is serious.”

This last part is a bit worrying, since it almost has to be false. Madden was talking about an investigation (or at least allegations consistent with these investigations) nine months ago, and I doubt Sandusky sent or received anything pornographic in the mail since last November. Why would an investigation only be in the early stages now, unless it was going to go on for several years?

In his April, 2011 article, Madden allude to an investigation, but it didn't specify the jurisdiction, state or federal. So, it may not have entailed federal charges, nor agencies.

Something else troubling to me about the USPS involvement: USPS is budgetarily insolvent. They're hemorrhaging money. Recent coverage on ZeroHedge adds the following, "USPS STILL EXPECTS TO RUN OUT OF CASH IN OCTOBER." How thorough an investigation may be run by an insolvent agency?

[Project Willow]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/13/jerry-sandusky-booster-sex-abuse-private-plane_n_1772564.html

Jerry Sandusky, Penn State Booster Sexually Abused Boys On Private Plane: Witness
...
A witness interviewed by federal authorities claims convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky and a Penn State booster sexually assaulted boys on a private plane, according to an exclusive RadarOnline report.

U.S. Postal Inspectors interviewed the witness after opening a new investigation into whether Sandusky shared child pornography.

The witness, who "has a strong tie to the booster he is accusing," claims that Sandusky and the fundraiser abused two boys on a private plane in Pennsylvania, the site reported. RadarOnline's unidentified source doesn't know whether the two boys are among Sandusky's previously identified victims.
...

[dqueue]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/13/jerry-sandusky-booster-sex-abuse-private-plane_n_1772564.html

Jerry Sandusky, Penn State Booster Sexually Abused Boys On Private Plane: Witness
...
A witness interviewed by federal authorities claims convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky and a Penn State booster sexually assaulted boys on a private plane, according to an exclusive RadarOnline report.

U.S. Postal Inspectors interviewed the witness after opening a new investigation into whether Sandusky shared child pornography.

The witness, who "has a strong tie to the booster he is accusing," claims that Sandusky and the fundraiser abused two boys on a private plane in Pennsylvania, the site reported. RadarOnline's unidentified source doesn't know whether the two boys are among Sandusky's previously identified victims.
...

Damn my pessimism regarding the USPS involvement. That sounds like an interesting lead in the investigation. Echoes of Franklin. Thank you for this update.

[Jeff]

Echoes of Franklin.

Yes. It makes me wonder how close we are to the inevitable "witch hunt" backlash.

According to Radar Online, federal authorities are looking into the possibility that Sandusky shared his young victims with other pedophiles including a "very rich, very powerful man connected with the university."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ds-newsxml

It can't be long now.

[Luther Blissett]

Echoes of Franklin.

Yes. It makes me wonder how close we are to the inevitable "witch hunt" backlash.

According to Radar Online, federal authorities are looking into the possibility that Sandusky shared his young victims with other pedophiles including a "very rich, very powerful man connected with the university."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ds-newsxml

It can't be long now.

I saw a few mentions on yesterday's reddit thread about SRA of current "hysteria" surrounding abuse.

[jingofever]

Great deal of Sandusky evidence unused.

A prosecutor in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case said a "great deal" of "highly incriminating" evidence wasn't presented to the jury that convicted him, according to a post-trial hearing transcript unsealed Wednesday.
Chief Deputy Attorney General Frank Fina did not offer details of the additional evidence at the hearing held four days after the former Penn State assistant football coach was convicted. But, Fina said, it wouldn't be Sandusky's best interest to have more information revealed.
"I'm talking about incriminating information beyond that which was presented during the trial," Fina told a judge. "There's a great deal of that in the discovery. Evidence that, for a variety of reasons, the commonwealth did not utilize but that was highly incriminating of Mr. Sandusky."

[jingofever]

'Highly Incriminating' Evidence in Jerry Sandusky Case Could Lead to New Charges.

Prosecutors in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case said they had a "great deal" of "highly incriminating" evidence they never brought up during Sandusky's trial, evidence that could be related to pending criminal charges.
The statements are part of a transcript released Thursday from a closed-door meeting held in June, after Sandusky had been found guilty of 45 counts of child sex abuse. In the meeting, Frank Fina, Pennsylvania's deputy attorney general, said that the state had investigative reports as well as testimony from unnamed victims in the case that were not brought up in trial and should remain secret because of the ongoing investigation.
"We turned over transcripts of other potential victims and transcripts relating to the Penn State University and some of the potential events involving Penn State's connection with this case that I think would be highly sought by the media and that would not be in the best interests, again, of anybody, especially potentially ongoing matters to be disclosed," Fina said, according to the transcript.
The attorney general has not commented on who the ongoing investigation might be targeting.

This article is similar to the one I posted above but makes explicit that among the "variety of reasons" for not introducing the evidence into the trial is that it involves an ongoing investigation.