Matt Sandusky's story (a window into the Sandusky home)

[Are_grits_groceries]

Jerry Sandusky, adopted son had 'rocky' relationship
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It's a complicated story.

Matt lived with the Sanduskys through many of the years that abuse is alleged to have happened under the roof of their modest two-story home. Within several hundred pages of evidence collected by investigators during a grand jury probe of Jerry Sandusky are several police reports about the 68-year-old’s youngest adopted son.

Well before Sandusky was accused of being a child molester, Matt’s biological mother was the lone voice of concern when Sandusky took her son into foster care in 1996. Notes to her attorney show she challenged the court, made accusations of stalkinglike behavior against Sandusky and suspected abuse.

And so Long became one of the first people investigators thought to interview after a teenage boy from Clinton County made allegations in 2009 that were the onset of a case that would lead to Jerry Sandusky’s arrest and end the career of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno. Even the circumstances around his move into the Sandusky home have their own backstory.

Jerry Sandusky was in Los Angeles preparing for the 1995 Rose Bowl game when he made calls back to Centre County and arranged for Matt to move to Sandusky’s house directly from juvenile detention, where Matt was being held after his arrest for setting fire to a barn.
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http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/03/jerry_sandusky_adopted_son_had.html

What a complete mess. From Sandusky to the juvenile detention system to the judicial process, it was one unholy circle guaranteed not to help the kid.

[Spazito]

1. Geez, this gets creepier and more disgusting at every revelation...

From the article, it seems all Sandusky had to do was to make a phone call saying, in essence, he wanted to take a specific kid home and, boom, it was done.

From the article:

"But Jason Kutulakis, a midstate attorney who has worked with Children and Youth Services for several years, called it “creepy” and “weird” that Sandusky would make a phone call — as he describes in his book — and essentially say, ‘Hey, I want to take that kid home.’"

Matt's mother was never deemed an unfit mother, she, in fact, fostered children after her son was taken.

It seems more than obvious due diligence was not done on ANY of concerns voiced about Sandusky, not done at any level.

[valerief]

2. Was the kid a billionaire or multi-millionaire? No. So he doesn't matter.

He's just a pawn in a world run by the mentally ill. Since the people who run the world only care about making money, they're mentally ill. Unless you're money, they don't care about you.

[SoutherDem]

3. I really thought by now we would have a verdict

I am now a little concerned. Why didn't he step up sooner?

[Are_grits_groceries]

4. He was sitting by his mother until

a day or two ago. He was an ardent defnder of his father. One of the witness's testimony upset him and he left. Then he came forward.
It was rumored that he would take the stand if Sandusky did.
He has changed his story more than once and I think the prosecutors wanted more time to talk to him before introducing him into this case.
I think they wanted the narrative about these victims to be uppermost in the jurors' minds. Introducing Matt Sandusky wuld have thrown the trial off in a lot of ways. Not all of them would have been good.

[WilliamPitt]

5. He would have made a terrible witness

He claimed ever since this thing came to light that he wasn't abused, and now he's changed his story.

Red meat for a defense attorney on cross: "Were you lying then, or are you lying now? Why should anyone believe anything you say?"

Game, set, match.

[rhett o rick]

9. If you have been on a jury you know that they have to spend time

on each individual charge. Often the littlest item can culminate into a discussion in the jury.

[PADemD]

6. Article at link no longer available

[Spazito]

7. It works fine for me, just checked...

not sure why you are having a problem.

[Are_grits_groceries]

8. I just clicked and went right to it? nt