From the HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS:
Since Jerry Sandusky’s November arrest and the revelation that now-missing district attorney Ray Gricar declined to prosecute a case brought to police in 1998, there have been hundreds of theories about why a seasoned district attorney would decide not to bring a case that state prosecutors would later pursue.
Information made public in a searing grand jury presentment showed that Sandusky allegedly admitted to touching the boy known as Victim 6 while they were both naked and saying, “I wish I were dead.”
What wasn’t made public until now was that two days before Gricar closed the case, a psychologist concluded Victim 6 was not sexually abused by Sandusky…
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Ray Gricar didn’t charge Sandusky in 1998 because there was not enough evidence, not because of a psychologist’s report.
The real question is why AG Corbett and DA Madeira (and the Patriot-News for that matter) didn’t properly investigate Gricar’s disappearance in 1995.
WK
I read an article on Alter Net that one reason why the scandel at Penn State occur because American workers do not have freedom of speeech at their workplace. Because we have no freedom of speech at work, the American worker is unable to correct the abuses at Penn State or the economic crimes on Wall Street.
It is always the lowly workers that have to leave their First Amemdments at their place of employment while rich people, business leaders, and corporations are free to use their First Amendment to run their mouths off .
Seems like the Penn State officials have too much bureaucracy when it comes to reporting crimes on campus and that they’re too big to jail… like how the Wall Streeters have been getting off easy, not even with a slap on the wrist (for now).
This whole topic makes me sick… I have read the indictment and I am not going to defend JoePa or any of the administration at Penn State that heard what was happening with Sandusky and the boy in the shower.
With that being said, I believe that everyone’s anger is directed at the wrong person. We should be extremely disappointed with the way the situation was handled by the administration at Penn State but the real focus should be on the grad student. He is the one that after being an eye witness to a rape did nothing to stop it but run home to tell his father. Upon discussing the scene with him he decided to wait a full day to report the incident not to the police but to JoPa. Who in turn relayed what he had been told to his supervisors.
At this point everything is one man’s word against another. This is where the administration is at fault for not reporting something of this nature to the police.
However, as a male in my 20s I do not understand how someone who is a former football player and physically fit did not beat the piss out of a man they see raping a young boy. Instead of running away and hiding for 10 years this grad student should have taken immediate action by putting on his big boy pants and calling the police himself. This man (at this point in time) is still on the coaching staff at Penn State.
Now people are calling for a self imposed death penalty at Penn State because football is too important to the school. Let’s get one thing straight here. Football should be about the guys playing the sport. None of which have done anything wrong. Why punish them? With the incident that has taken place Penn State will see enough damage to their school and legacy. It has been a sad week for college football.
It’s near impossible not to want to kill harm the man and I’m afraid the longer this drags on (and I’ll go on record and say we’re due to be privy to the sordid details over the next year), the worse the revelations will be.
Hell, Sandusky this morning was telling the world he showered with and hugged young boys in the shower but nothing untoward occurred. I’m afraid this will make the OJ trial look tame and put all sorts of pressure on the boys/families involved.
Why do adults abuse kids? Because they can.
The more I read about this stuff, the luckier I feel to have escaped abuse/rape as a child.
Yes, the world needs a children’s right movement; too bad that those who would benefit from it are pretty much voiceless.
It seems that every time the school administration started to let the investigation play out, it came to a dead stop because the police and the DA knuckle under to the politically and economically connected school administrators at Penn State.
Did Texas authorities like Bush, Jr. and Perry know about what the guy did in their state, but gave him a free pass? So much for being tough on crime inTexas. Politics is politics no matter what state you are in.
Graduates of the various military academies are a close-knit group but protect each other. Look at the rape and sexual harassment of female cadets at the Air Force Academy and forcing of military personnel to convert to Christianity.
This is another example of how money trumps education in America, and that education in America is laughable compared to international standards, most likely due to the assaults on teachers unions followed by students dropping out of either HS or college (or earlier).
As for the ongoing case against those involved in the Penn State sex scandal, while the jury being selected has to have no prior knowledge of the defendant in question, then why does there seem to be a double standard with the judge?