<p>I don’t think it’s a benefit for football. I think they are trying to generate goodwill with potential customers by giving away a luncheon with a bunch of football boosters and whichever lower level coach and players they can get to attend. Woo hoo.</p>
<p>
Sure sounds like a benefit for PSU football.</p>
<p>I think they made a donation to the boosters’ club; I don’t think they’re running a fundraiser for football.</p>
<p>^^right. The quarterback club is one of those “get better seats, meet the players” kinda things. Not actually associated with the university, but certainly works with their tacit approval. The football dinner is an annual event for certain season ticket holders; the coaches speak about various inspiring things and usually a couple players are there to meet and greet. Enjoy the irony that they can’t be a fundraiser for the team because that would violate a great many NCAA laws, so they wouldn’t jeopardize the chance to sit around and schmooze by doing so.</p>
<p>[Jerry</a> Sandusky Was Part Of Child Porn Ring, Greg Bucceroni, Former ‘Child Prostitute’ Claims](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>Jerry Sandusky Was Part Of Child Porn Ring, Greg Bucceroni, Former 'Child Prostitute' Claims | HuffPost Latest News)</p>
<p>It’s not clear whether this is the child porn ring that the Post Office started investigating in August, or something different.</p>
<p>Sandusky is scheduled to be sentenced October 9.</p>
<p>thanks for posting that janesmith. sickening.</p>
<p>Mini—you predicted this</p>
<p>I think it’s a little premature to take that as fact considering the source.</p>
<p>I’m not saying this story can’t be true, but it doesn’t seem to match what we know about how Sandusky worked. He seemed to look at his acts as more of a relationship - as sick as that is, instead of paying for sex from a male prostitute.</p>
<p>From same link;
Twelve alumni of Poly Prep have filed a lawsuit against the school, claiming they were raped and abused by Foglietta, the Wall Street Journal reports. The suit claims school officials knew about Foglietta’s crimes and covered them up, “continuing to publicly celebrate Mr. Foglietta as an upstanding member of the school.”</p>
<p>it may not be true that Foglietta had a connection to Sandusky, however this was alleged to have occurred over 30 years ago, who knows what Sandusky’s predilections were when he was a young man. And while we may not see a former prostitute as credible, sadly, some who were abused will be unable to leave that darkness, and it doesn’t necessarily mean he isn’t telling the truth.</p>
<p>No, it doesn’t mean he isn’t. But the converse is also true.</p>
<p>Annie Monjar at phillymag.com has a good piece on the too limited focus of Malcolm Gladwell’s piece on Sandusky and the pedophile m.o.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>There will always be pedophiles. What we need to figure out is how to get people who know about their behaviour–or have well-founded suspicions–to act. </p>
<p>We already know Spanier is claiming he knew next to nothing; Curley and Schultz will probably try to claim the same. Their attorneys might even quote Gladwell’s article. Sigh.</p>
<p>“Mini—you predicted this”</p>
<p>Yes, I did. And now, maybe, just maybe, we;ll find out if and how JoePa funded it. Note the date - 1979 - and it may have been recorded (and paid for) as a “recruiting” trip. (which it was…)</p>
<p>Gladwell’s article…did a good job of describing how successful pedophiles operate and disarm suspicion. Let everyone else off too easily, IMHO. But that’s easy for me to say. I’ve never been in the position of having to judge a plausible pedophile.</p>
<p>The Curey and Schultz perjury case will be going to trial. The judge dismissed a motion to drop the charges. </p>
<p>[Judge</a> says perjury charges against Penn State’s Curley, Schultz will be heard by jury | McClatchy](<a href=“http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/09/26/169826/judge-says-perjury-charges-against.html]Judge”>http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/09/26/169826/judge-says-perjury-charges-against.html)</p>
<p>Interestingly, Curley and Schultz want separate trials.</p>
<p>I wonder if the separate trials are a defense strategy (blame the other guy).</p>
<p>A number of Sandusky’s victims plan to speak at the hearing (when Sandusky is sentanced). At least one, Victim 1, has written a book about this situation, with his mother and a psychologist…at least some of the proceeds to go to child abuse victims. (I think this is the now 18 year old whose mother really pushed the case.)</p>
<p>My apologies if you think this post is not on topic, but to me, the parallels to the Penn State Sandusky mess are clear.</p>
<p>I would be very angry if I had a student at this high school right now. I know of the high school and can say, yes, the high school could be described as taking a great deal of pride in its football program in recent years. </p>
<p>[Interim</a> Murphy coach once accused of misconduct | HeraldNet.com - Local news](<a href=“Interim Murphy coach once accused of misconduct | HeraldNet.com”>Interim Murphy coach once accused of misconduct | HeraldNet.com)</p>
<p>How could a high school hire this guy as a coach and PE teacher knowing he surrendered his teaching credential in a neighboring state based on evidence of an inappropriate relationship with a student? And they hired him this summer? Weren’t they paying attention to what was happening at Penn State? </p>
<p>The lesson that safety of children and students is more important than a winning football program was apparently not learned here. And yes, I think he was hired because of football and only because of football. I am floored.</p>
<p>Penn State has filed a motion requesting that the civil suits filed against it by Victim 1 be stayed until the conclusion of criminal cases against Curley and Schultz, “so as not to prejudice the rights of the parties involved in the criminal proceedings.”</p>
<p>A stay would mean that Victim 1 and his team would not be entitled to discovery, and they oppose a stay. </p>
<p>
</p>
<p>The article is here: <a href=“http://pennrecord.com/news/penn-state-requests-stay-of-civil-case-by-sandusky-victim-until-conclusion-of-criminal-proceedings-against-former-university-officials/[/url]”>http://pennrecord.com/news/penn-state-requests-stay-of-civil-case-by-sandusky-victim-until-conclusion-of-criminal-proceedings-against-former-university-officials/</a></p>
<p>a**holes, the whole bunch of them.</p>
<p>not surprising, so much for Penn State’s statement following Sandusky’s conviction, to the victims asking them to come forward so Penn State could work with them…</p>
<p>“The university plans to invite victims of Mr. Sandusky’s abuse to participate in a program to facilitate the resolution of claims against the university arising out of Mr. Sandusky’s conduct,” Rodney Erickson, Penn State’s president, said in the statement.</p>
<p>The message seemed obvious: the university wanted to avoid more embarrassment and criticism in civil court for not having done more to identify Sandusky as a threat to children, and wanted to deal with his victims “privately, expeditiously and fairly.”</p>
<p>[Bernstein:</a> Feds Send Message To Sandusky Circus CBS Chicago](<a href=“http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/06/06/bernstein-feds-send-message-to-sandusky-circus/]Bernstein:”>Bernstein: Feds Send Message To Sandusky Circus - CBS Chicago)</p>
<p>I hadn’t seen this one before. The feds were looking at Mann Act violations against Sandusky for actions committed in 1998, when he was clearly still in the employ of the football team, with JoePa authorizing the travel funds (and hence also likely an accessory to the crime).</p>
<p>I still doubt that the feds will ever bring a case.</p>