Accused ex-coach wrote a book titled ‘Touched’

[trumad]

The former Penn State assistant football coach accused by a grand jury last week of sexually assaulting eight boys, wrote an autobiography titled Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story.

It was published in 2001 as an inspirational tale of a man devoted to helping, not hurting, disadvantaged children through Second Mile, a charity he founded in 1977.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/133357828.html

[Auggie]

1. Awful, ugly stuff

[Kingofalldems]

2. Maybe I'm wrong but it looks like Paterno knew something

in 1999, based on the GJ report. And the fact that Sandusky was told he would never be head coach. Why?

[trumad]

5. He certainly knew in 2002

and they let him keep an office at State.

[fishwax]

9. and when he heard a direct eyewitness report in '02, he very likely knew about the '98 investigation

So the eyewitness report didn't just come out of nowhere. And the eyewitness wasn't some random person that Paterno had no reason to trust.

Apparently the grand jury subpoenas included a request for university emails dating back to 1997. I don't know whose emails they requested, but I think the more information that comes out the worse it will look. For everyone.

[greasyboy]

3. Accused ex-coach wrote a book titled ‘Touched’

I'm very -- well.... touched.

[1gobluedem]

4. Well, isn't that lovely

This is all so sickening.

[Condem]

6. Speaking of books...JoePa's biographer

http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/11/06/darkness/

[trumad]

7. Read this... Wow

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2011/11/living-a-lie

[JohnnyLib2]

8. Thoughtful piece, truly.

Thanks for posting.

[Condem]

10. If it was any other coach not named Paterno ...

...the press conference would have been this morning (or even the minute it was released) announcing his resignation. Oh, JoePa knew alright. And this is truly the beyond disgusting part. He is hanging on now to fight for his LEGACY. He doesn't give a shit about the kids. Never did. Man, what a selfish act of desperation. And I never thought I'd write those words. Living in Philly, he was God. If you played ball, you wanted go to PSU. Reminds me of a scene in the Stephen King penned movie 'Dead Zone'. Walken touches the mother's hands and says "you knew all along".
Sorry, Joe. You might have done nothing wrong legally but you sure as shit didn't do anything right morally. But I'll shut up now. You've got to go to Columbus this weekend. Much more important.

[joeybee12]

11. You can't make this sort of shit up, oh the irony...

It'd be funny if it weren't so disgusting and tragic.

[Condem]

12. Sandusky's timeline....

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/07/justice/pennsylvania-coach-abuse-timeline/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

[trumad]

13. Jesus Christ...

Reading that is jaw dropping. So many people involved for so long ---what---18 years--- and maybe longer---1977?

it's as if he founded "Second Mile" for his feeding ground.

How many kids did he fuck up for life?

This is one of the biggest scandals I've ever seen.

[Condem]

15. How many he fucked up?

No one will ever know.

[madinmaryland]

14. And to think Jim Tressel was pilloried for not reporting a few players who got free

tattoos. Will JoePa skate away from this one??

[joeybee12]

17. Now, now, you know you're not exactly correct....ressel was pretty

much in the clear for quite some time, his sweater image carrying through for a while, and it was a culture of corruption at OSU, and it still shows.

As for JoePa, it'll tke a while for what he did to sink in for many people, but eventually pretty much he'll have to go...there's no other ending to this story.

[madinmaryland]

18. Hmmm...

The corruption of giving a few freebies (tattoos) to athletes versus covering up for a pedophile?? Yeah, that's a real equal comparison.

NOT.

[joeybee12]

20. No, I did not make a comparison, and you know it...and it wasn't tattoos...it was selling trophies,

getting free cars, you name it, they did it...Pyror made more as an "amateur" at OSU than he ever will as a pro.

[DinahMoeHum]

16. Sadly, I don't think the "babe in the woods" routine is gonna cut it

for Joe Paterno.

If there's any sense of decency in him, he should resign. Immediately.

As it is, he is lucky he is not being indicted. Yet.

What a shame. Paterno has been touted for decades as a paragon of a winning, clean coach with a winning, clean program beyond reproach in every way.

Then again, I suppose, if you've been around for decades like he has, the success gets to your head and you start thinking you're indispensable.

Nasty, sordid piece of business all around.

:(

[fishwax]

19. Paterno had a problem with people wearing hats in the building -- pedophiles in the building, on the

other hand ...

http://pennstate.scout.com/2/1125788.html

Paterno has a longstanding rule that nobody is allowed to wear a hat in the football building. At a press conference in the facility a few years ago, he berated a reporter for wearing a hat, only to be forced to apologize when he learned the man was losing his hair while going through chemotherapy.

So wearing a hat in the building warrants an admonishment from Paterno. But when a graduate assistant alleges he “saw something inappropriate” involving a man and boy in the shower, it is someone else's problem?