The Nittany Nightmare: Paterno Fired- Sandusky’s Recorded Sting With Victims Mother Went Missing With Prosecutor Ray Gricar In 2005
WE ARE.. PENN STATE
The thorn in the paw in the largest criminal scandal in recent NCAA history, feels more like a railroad spike today.
The winningest collegiate coach in American history got sacked yesterday in his 46th year.
The iconic former Penn State University head football coach leaves his legacy shamed by the alleged sexual assaults by Jerry Sandusky, the former defensive coordinator of 23 years, on his watch.
Graham Spanier, president of PSU was also fired.
According to the Pennsylvania Attorney General, Paterno is not facing criminal charges, no word yet on Spanier.
Charged in the scandal to date are:
Gerald “Jerry” Sandusky- 40 counts of felony child sexual abuse, released on $100,000 bond
Tim Curley- PSU Athletic Director and 1976 alumni- charged with perjury and failure to report
Gary Schultz- PSU Senior VP of finance and Business charged with perjury and failure to report
Not charged, but in my opinion, should absolutely be under moral indictment:
Mike McQueary- Current PSU recruiting coordinator and wide receiver coach who witnessed the sodomy of a child by Sandusky as a 28 year old grad student. He ran home and called his daddy instead of police,leaving the child in the clutches of that monster.
(UPDATE 3:37PM The PSU Board does not plan to fire McQueary, but want him off the field although interim coach Bradley says he will be on the sideline. Are you people nuts? I really think the players have enough concerns without wondering if some radical will rush the sidelines to get at McQueary. Not worth the security breach.)
Yes, that is correct, he witnessed the act in progress of the rape of a child and did nothing to stop it.
Earlier in the week, Jopa announced through a prepared statement that he would be retiring at the end of the season after 46 years at the helm of the Nittany Lions Division 1 dynasty.
While PSU alumnus roars turned into wails for the past week, it appears this nittany nightmare is just the beginning of the story.
The sexual assault of a 10 year old boy by Sandusky in the shower of the Lasch Football Building during Spring Break 2002, witnessed by a graduate student was never reported to Ray Gricar , Center County Prosecutor on the record.
But was he made aware of it under the radar?
Anthony DeBouf, a district attorney working under Gricar, says Gricar reviewed evidence and files privately and did not share any of the information with him, in 1998.
You read that correctly, in 1998, when the first alleged incident of Sandusky in the field house shower with a young boy was reported to University Police and the Centre County DA’s office.
According to Graham Spanier, recently fired PSU president, an investigation was completed by a “child protective agency” and University Police with the blessing of then PSU counsel Wendell Courtney.
Courtney was and is still an attorney of record for Second Mile.
Spanier said he thought the director of Second Mile, the grass roots charitable effort founded by Sandusky, was alerted through those efforts.
In 1999 Sandusky was offered and accepted an Emeritus status retirement package from PSU where he held full campus access privileges and an office in the very building of the alleged 1998 and 2002 incidents.
The 4th victim named in the indictment against Schultz, Curley and Sandusky claims that decision by Sandusky was precipitated by a private meeting between he and Paterno.
Sandusky was bitterly upset after a meeting with Joe Paterno in which he was told by JOPA he would never be his replacement as head coach, and that he should retire.
Tony Gricar, Ray Gricar’s nephew, has since revealed that Ray participated in a sting with police where Sandusky admitted showering with a boy whose mother called University Police when Sandusky dropped her son off with wet hair and asked for forgiveness from the family, with the entire meeting surreptitiously recorded.
Gricar viewed police reports and two recorded conversations that Sandusky had with the juvenile victims mother and for reasons that have never been made public, elected not to file charges in the incident.
Approximately 6 weeks later, the case was closed without enough evidence to prosecute. It is believed the victim had decided to refuse to testify against Sandusky and his Mother believed he would be persecuted in efforts to protect Sandusky and the elite PSU football program.
According to then University Police detectives Ronald Shreffler and Ralph Ralston, following a meeting with Jerry Lauro, investigator with the PA Dept of Public Welfare, while the behavior was certainly inappropriate, neither victim made allegations of sexual contact rising to the level of criminal activity.
Gricar had nothing to work with.
So.. Was this the case Ray Gricar saw as “the one that got away” he wanted to pursue prior to his retirement?
Sandusky remained with Second Mile, in some cases recruiting it’s board members through last year.
Sandusky founded the Second Mile charity in 1977, a foster and group home environment for disadvantaged boys in various underprivileged social circumstances. It is believed this was where Sandusky began the lure to prey on his child victims. Sandusky retired from Second Mile in 2010, while the grand jury investigation into his victimization of young boys got underway.
The current honorary board of Second Mile reads like the who’s who of ESPN including Andy Ried, head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, Matt Millen, ESPN sports analyst, Lou Holtz former head coach of Notre Dame University and yes, “Marky Mark” Wahlberg.
Only yesterday did I realize I was on their advisory board. I have had no contact or correspondence with Second Mile or Jerry Sandusky since 2009 with the exception of thank you notes for one of their most successful events.
If the allegations are true, I, like the many good people who support Second Mile, am upset over being misled. However, the pain and sadness I feel for the abused children fills me with rage and anyone who enabled this to happen should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
Coach Holtz
The development of charitable organizations as a means to not only groom victims but to take advantage of government funding and tax breaks for the privilege came under extreme scrutiny in the late 1970′s with the discovery of Brother Paul’s Children’s Mission on North Fox Island among other organizations. It is not known if the charitable practices of Second Mile are under investigation at this time.
Second Mile posted a statement on their site, claiming Sandusky has had no interaction with them since he alerted them to an investigation involving a boy in 2008. Someone should have them review their annual report and the Sandusky society named after his parents that he and wife Dottie continue to donate to.
Every one of Sandusky’s alleged victims, were “Second Mile” children as far back as 1994. One of the victims, was contacted by phone prior to his appearance before the grand jury by Sandusky, his wife, and a family friend leaving the message they needed to talk to him regarding an “important matter”.
Victim 7 did not return the call, but this editor would seriously like to know the intent of the call from Mrs. Sandusky, who has not been charged with any crime.
In several alleged incidents, and 8 victims named in the indictment against Sandusky, the only person to ever call police to report him was the mother of a victim whose incident was found to be unchargeable under the law, in 1998.
Ray Frank Gricar
A dedicated and successful prosecutor on the cusp of enjoying retirement, Ray Gricar disappeared from an impromptu trip to “clear his head” on April 15, 2005. Gricar called his live-in girlfriend he met as a clerk in his office Patty Fornicola that morning and said he was going to take a drive in his mini Cooper to Lewisburg, a town he was known to frequent to purchase select antiques.
Although Gricar was scheduled to take a half day’s vacation previously, he called Patty from his cell phone at 11:30 am and told her he would be taking the entire day off.
When Gricar failed to return that evening, Fornicola was concerned and phoned Bellefonte Police. The next day Gricar’s “mini” was found locked with his cell phone inside in a Lewisburg parking lot. His keys and wallet have never been recovered.
Two months later, his work laptop was located in the Susquehanna River and without it’s hard drive against a bridge support, and the hard drive a few months after that on the bank by a woman walking her dog.
In 2009, on the 4 year anniversary of his disappearance, Bellefonte detectives releases startling information.
On his home computer, which was reviewed by a forensic analyst, showed searches including how to delete a hard drive were found in the weeks leading up to Gricar’s disappearance.
A small amount of cigarette ashes found just inside the driver side window of Gricars car leading investigators to believe he met with someone, spoke briefly through the window, and parked his car.
Subsequent possible sightings of Gricar in Michigan have never panned out and his case is still open.
Tom Bradley, Jerry Sandusky’s successor as defensive coordinator upon his retirement, is acting PSU head coach will lead the team in their last home game against Nebraska this Saturday.
“We’re in a very unprecedented area,” Bradley said Thursday. “We have to find a way to restore the confidence [in the university] and start the healing process.”
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hey Blink. Just Jane…
may have to edit? but maybe not… Sandusky’s foster son Matt’s suicide attempt weeks after moving in with them was the 1st ‘alert’… boys probation officer was concerned for his client’s current situation… hmmm…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061035/Sanduskys-son-tried-kill-months-moving-alleged-child-sex-abusing-coach.html
sorry to include edit-able stuff, but I am still really curious about McQ and where he grew up, like what street…
this is all so sad….
RE SICK VICK: another football cover-up, again, TOP-DOWN – where the victims were systematically tortured and murdered.
Good New! Looks like there is some just karma.
Couldn’t be more deserved
Scared Monkeys:
“Hey Philadelphia, how’s that multi-million dollar contract you gave to Michael Vick looking these days”
http://scaredmonkeys.com/2011/11/13/kc-tebowed-denver-beats-chiefs-17-10-tebow-completes-two-passes-put-a-fork-in-the-eagles-they-are-done/
“Put a fork in the Eagles.. They are done”
I can only hope that some day when these protesting Paterno-worshiping
students have children, that their words come back to haunt them. They are really making it worse. After all, these are not young children (like the ages of the victims that were raped, i.e.) Ex. below:
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/11/sister_of_sandusky_victim_talk.html
Sister of Jerry Sandusky victim talks about the pain of life at Penn State where students are joking about being ‘Sanduskied’
much info here:
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/11/who_knew_what_about_jerry_sand.html
A Patriot-News Special Report: Who knew what about Jerry Sandusky? There were many missed chances to investigate as early as 1995
here are some snippets:
The earliest documented report of possible abuse at the hands of Sandusky is in 1995, when his now-legally adopted son was still a teenage foster child in his home.
The adoption file for Matt Sandusky, who had a different name at the time, contains letters of concern from his mother to children and youth officials and to a Centre County judge.
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About four months after he went to live with Jerry, Matt attempted suicide with a girl who was also staying at Sandusky’s house.
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The day Jerry Sandusky was arrested, Matt brought his kids over to Jerry’s house. The mother of Matt’s children almost immediately went to court to prevent future visits. A judge’s order now prevents Sandusky from having unsupervised contact or overnight visits with his grandchildren.
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Gricar disappeared suddenly in 2005. He remained missing and was declared dead earlier this year. Tony Gricar, family spokesman, said his uncle had developed a “bitter taste” for the football program and Paterno.
“So, I wouldn’t imagine he’d give favorable treatment to anyone associated with the team for any reason,” he said.
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When The Patriot-News first reported details of the investigation in March, Raykovitz said he was assured by prosecutors that The Second Mile and its programs were not targets of the investigation.
Kelly will only say that the investigation is ongoing. However, Gov. Tom Corbett — who as attorney general began the Sandusky investigation — said Thursday night that the new attorney general will look into what The Second Mile knew.
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The alleged victim who finally kicked off a full-scale investigation —the one that led to Sandusky’s indictment — came forward in late 2008. He was a freshman at Central Mountain High School, where Sandusky was a volunteer football coach.
In an interview with The Patriot-News, the boy’s mother said that she began to suspect something was wrong when her son asked about a database for “sex weirdos” and when Sandusky began demanding to discipline her child.
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Sandusky was barred from the school as soon as this victim made allegations against him, and Kelly praised the school district for acting appropriately.
The mother has told The Patriot-News she was upset to hear the district being commended.
“They told me to go home and think about what I wanted to do, and I was not happy,” she said. “They said I needed to think about how that would impact my son if I said something like that. I went home and got [my son] and we came to [Children and Youth Services] immediately.”
(again, above are snippets)
This has nothing directly to do with Sandusky, but I was looking for something the a couple of weeks ago on WA state’s missing children site, and I was totally astonished how many children are listed there that are missing from “foster and/or state care”. WTH? So when I see that Sandusky was using his own freakin’ charity to recruit and rape children, I gotta’ wonder WTH is going on? Here’s the link: http://www.wsp.wa.gov/crime/mischild.php
I read the possiblility posted by another commenter here about McQueary perhaps being “gotten to” by Sandusky, and have to say, after debriefing at least one adult male survivor of perhaps one of the worst physical and psychological organized pedo terror rings, the criminals in charge, often high powered, wealthy (read: hence very politically connected) men, often subbtly co-opt a victim into being silent witnesses to other heinous sexual abuse events… they turn the victim into a pseudo-participant… you sort of have to study WW2 concentration camp psychology to understand the depths of depravity and coercion that take place… Do they pick/pimp children just for the enjoyment of those too bored to get pleasure except by exploring the outer edges of inhumanity? Or something else? When you read documented personal accounts, you begin to wonder if there’s some other reason than just getting kicks for destroying a child like that. Like, power for power’s sake… used to be only savage primitive tribes believed that a man got powerful by sacrificing children…stealing their spirit through the use of unspeakable fear and pain – you gotta wonder if that’s part of what’s behind what these Penn State “leader-savages” did… they are no different than bloodthirsty savages. Look how worshipped they are – look at who still riots in support of those “leader-savages”. Until we look at every aspect of this, it won’t go away.
Laugh of the day…
“I didn’t even know there was a type of bail that didn’t require, y’know, posting bail.”
It’s called, “going Dutchcot.”
- Ryan Braun’s Razor
lol, it gets worse. That Judge will be recusing like yesterday.
B
Judge Who Freed Sandusky on Bail Worked for His Charity, Report Says Amid Pension Revelations
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/13/former-penn-state-assistant-coach-reportedly-continues-to-receive-monthly/
“The judge who ordered former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky be freed on $100,000 unsecured bail worked as a volunteer for his charity, The Second Mile”
Hi Blink! Am wondering if there have been any former “Second Mile” boys on the Penn State football team – either now or in the past. It’s all just sick…
There’s only one public high school in State College; it has a north and south bldg. Judge Dutchcot’s husband, Arthur Entz, is a social studies teacher at State College South High School.
It’s just such a “small world” there.
http://www.scasd.org/Page/10521
I’m still in shock at the fact that Sandusky got an unsecured bond for these allegations and he is sitting at home. Would the ordinary citizen get that break? I think not. But then I saw the story of the judge who issued the bond is a contributor to the Second Mile. How deep and far reaching does this pedo scandal go?
@beejay, There’s only one public high school in the SC school district, but there are more in the larger local community. Bald Eagle, Bellefonte, Penns Valley, Philipsburg-Osceola, plus the Vo-Tec Central Pennsylvania Institute of Science and Technology High School.
While in different towns, the community connections are large and intertwined. You have to consider them all as part of the dynamic, imo.
Irony is so very rich here, I just want to scream. Penn State alum(well, and all ya’ll too, I s’pose)have an oppportunity to contribute to a fund being set up to help defend against the civil suits they fear/know will come now.
If this statement below is true, then Penn State has taken an action that might avert a mass exodus of alumni donations. This source quotes the chair of the Board of Trustees, Steve Garban, a 1950s Penn State football captain himself:
““Money that goes to the the sex abuse fund will be specifically designated, and this is being done is a very discreet manner. Penn State has very, very wealthy donors, and board members, and this is who will be contributing to it,” an insider close to the situation tells us.”
link:
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2011/11/penn-state-board-establishing-fund-deal-with-civil-sex-abuse-lawsuits-exclusive
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“Discreet” equals “you alumni can contribute with assurance that your name will not be released”. (translation is IMO)
I trust Blink has/will be obtaining a list of previous “very, very wealthy donors, and board members.”
Beejay would like to see that list!
P.S. on the high schools: If you map them, you will find the all but the Philipsburg-Osceola school are within a radius of just a few miles. All including P-O are within the daily commute of many who work at Penn State and in State College. It’s just that they all have different school districts.
This might have been linked earlier. If not, it’s a pretty complete article with answers to a lot of questions, including adopted Matt Sandusky’s ex-wife’s immediate move to prevent Jerry Sandusky from having any contact with their children. And to who knew what when.
(Um, Blink, will his release on unsecured bail POSSIBLY be reviewed now? Or will it just stand?)
link:
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/11/who_knew_what_about_jerry_sand.html
Erose, I earn your “blog-hog” spot this a.m. Last one:
I got that link to the Nov 11 pennlive.com article from a blog that I want to link here. Because I liked the commentary, and because at the very bottom of that article is something others might want to see, about a Discovery Channel show that was never aired (I don’t have time to view it right now).
Snipped:
“The report states that opportunities to investigate and perhaps stop Sandusky’s abusive actions go back at least to 1995. Ironically, that is one year after the Franklin Scandal documentary was pulled from The Discovery Channel. Reports the Harrisburg newspaper….”
link:
http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2011/11/will-penn-state-scandal-finally-bring.html
Just wait until some idiot lawyer negotiates a Sandusky exclusive.
I am telling you PSU better take my suggestion or some savvy barrister will take the counter position.
to my knowledge yes
B
I am SO far from being knowledgeable on the effects of childhood sexual abuse. But I overheard someone questioning why his former daughter-in-law just filed to keep Sandusky away from her children now. I do question how she could not be aware of the ongoing grand jury investigation.
But, even if her ex-husband had been abused, does not mean he would have told her, even in a strong marriage. I have a family member who only found out about his wife’s abuse by her stepfather when their own oldest daughter reached the age at which it had happened. His wife pretty much fell apart at that point, and it took years of counseling, confrontation with her dying mother, and a lot more to get through it. Their marriage seems to have survived, but it was a hard road, I think. And I think it was a very strong relationship prior.
I’m just going to be happy that his daughter-in-law is doing the right thing now. And APPALLED that Dottie tried to talk her out of it.
The information about J. Sandusky’s own childhood is interesting, and causes a lot of contemplation about how he might have grown into such a twisted adult. Please let this have stopped here, with this generation.
The chances of Jerry Sandusky not being similarly abused as a child are almost nil, given the gravity of his offenses and the length of time he has been allegedly committing them. I say allegedly like I have to, but I will call this mother out for what he is- a child rapist and predator of the worst kind.
I have a special brand of disdain for ole Dottie- I cannot articulate the anger and outrage I feel toward her.
If it was ever true she could not have children, and her maternal contributions were to look the other way, or worse, imo, she is no better than her husband and shall be “outted” appropriately.
If the mother of Matt’s kids first response was to secure a restraining order for her children, it should speak volumes of how this family was able to hide in plain sight.
B
PER BLINK: I am going to do you one better on your thoughts about MCQueary- her was best pals with an older Sandusky growing up, and his dad was tight with Jerry.
so, B, does this mean you found the article I asked about?
or just that the info I provided was not case sensitive, but true? I just haven’t seen it ANYwhere, weird, right!?
when I go to sleep, I wish this would all go away then I wake up so sick for those boys, so sick… (and as a human, totally grossed out by the COVER of JSs autobi, EW!)
Blink says …
The chances of Jerry Sandusky not being similarly abused as a child are almost nil, given the gravity of his offenses and the length of time he has been allegedly committing them. I say allegedly like I have to, but I will call this mother out for what he is- a child rapist and predator of the worst kind.
I have a special brand of disdain for ole Dottie- I cannot articulate the anger and outrage I feel toward her.
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having worked both sides of this issue – victim and offender – my only contribution is HEAR HEAR to Blink’s post … it is a true statement !!
Penn State’s “sex abuse fund” –imo a slush fund to buy off Setyle) civil
complainants, even in advance of a suit being filed. Imo the biggest “anonymous” donors are probably the “users.” don’t want their names out there in civil trials. Bet a prosecutor can find some way someday to get discovery of those slush fund dinors. What an idiotic idea. They should’ve done an abuse ed initiative pkg designed for local schools & sports teams. Where is their PR guru anyway? And, I’d get outside counsel for school.
That’s “settle” civil complaints ..
That’s “settle” civil complaints ..
Sandusky will go for an exclusive to pay defense & for basic narcissism
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/sports/ncaafootball/jack-raykovitz-chief-of-second-mile-resigns-amid-penn-state-scandal.html
Chief of Second Mile Resigns Amid Penn State Scandal
By MARK VIERA
Published: November 14, 2011
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Jack Raykovitz, the chief executive of the Second Mile foundation for 28 years, has resigned amid a sexual abuse scandal involving the charity’s founder, the former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
(more @ link)
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http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jack-raykovitz-ph-d/10/178/689
Jack Raykovitz, Ph. D.’s Experience
President/CEO
The Second Mile
Currently holds this position
Psychologist
Midstep Centers for Child Development
2000 – Present (11 years)
Psychologist
Scenery Park Psychology Group
1996 – Present (15 years)
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Apologies if this is already here.
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I know this may not be connected at all, but I wonder where this child here missing since 2000, was placed in a residential treatment program and I wonder who is psychologist was? Eric Wayne Pyles:
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/p/pyles_eric.html
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BTW, if no one has posted it here’s Gricar’s CP page:
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/g/gricar_ray.html
@Lizzy. Until the arrest, and a documented taking of kids to gramps (in MSM), imo she lacked grounds for an RO
The documentary “Conspiracy of Silence” can be viewed on this link. It is about an hour long. There is much perspective to be gained by watching this, however, it is extremely disturbing.
http://www.franklinscandal.com/
beejay says:
November 14, 2011 at 8:08 am
In my blog hog posts, I provided some “lists” and links. I cannot say they are the list, but I have copied them before they are taken down, and Beejay, I hope you will do the same. I think we will be honing these lists, cross ref, etc. in the time to come. JMO.
beejay says:
November 14, 2011 at 7:48 am
This is horrible just awful -
I want to extend my heartfelt prayers to all the children- or once children that have been hurt by him and all those that did the very least, if anything at all to stop this and protect them.
Blink you are right he was probably abused himself- which is NOT an excuse EVER-
A thorough investigation needs to take place.
If this is the case, that he was in a position of trust over countless children he actively searched out just such a situation because he was a prime “working” ground– which leads me to ask the question- How many more victims throughout his life- are out there?- you know, before he became a man of power and prestige, before he perfected his MO? This man did not one day wake up and acquire this sickness. He most likely has been a slave to it throughout his life- starting from the time he was perhaps first abused…
Quite sad and disturbing on so many different levels.
Sherlock- thank you for shining a light into that dark corner of the past- that case has haunted me for years- so many victims and potential victims and so much cover-up- IIRC those that were first on the scene, did find the briefcase and it contained pics of many high profile people with children-
It seems that some things will remain hidden even despite others best efforts-
I hope this will not be the case in this sad tale.
You are right Sherlock- things like this have been happening for a long time- and those that could help often turn a blind eye to what is happening, or try but can not succeed in getting help….
How much more awfulness will be discovered throughout this case? How many victims and how many abusers-?
Again My prayers go out tho those that need them the most.
AJMO
OK, I’ll fess up. You were a few steps ahead of me and I should have read more before typing. My brilliant idea turned out to be an unintended re-hash.
Joepa was a legend, even in south Lousiana where I grew up. I heard all the stories about him helping players to achieve, up to and beyond their potential, academically, on the field, and post-football. The legend seems to have been that he taught the less civilized to eat with a knife and fork, while guiding the more advanced to be captains of industry, etc.
Hearing that your old friend and confidante raped a boy in your facility must be mind numbing. Waiting to hear of it on the news each day must be a sleep thief. Realizing a month, then years later that nothing was being done about it brings you to a moral crossroad. Joe made a concious decision to say nothing, in effect becoming part of the coverup, by proxy.
Mentally, I know he is dirty. In my heart, I still keep trying to find some way to justify his existence based on the 62 years of good deeds in the Happy Valley. If it is hard on me, it must be a real biznatch for you.
Find a Happy Place….
Phew, it sure is Red Ranger. I am less saddened by the death of his legacy than I am the belief in it by very young and impressionable kids that deserved better. He had a private meeting with Sandusky which precipitated his decision to retire, but has had a hand at recruiting for his club since last week.
There is never going to be plausible deniability in this case and I don’t give a rats skellars ass how many vans get turned over.
B
@erose: thanks. I was reading some earlier today. There are, really, just so many names. Without something else to winnow things down it’s gonna be tough. Plus, I can’t find the very early records of Second Mile.
Also, want to let you know I’m on the sidelines here; don’t want you to count on me doing any data collection/research. (Sorry.) It’s hard not to get drawn into the work, but you know where my first commitment is. I have to discipline myself so I don’t lose focus on Ky. Sometimes I’ll read a bit in other cases to see if I can get some ideas of where to go with Ky’s SZ. Just priorities, so little time…
Websites are changing as we speak.
snips>
Jack Raykovitz, a practicing psychologist, had led the group, which was founded by Sandusky in 1977, for 28 years.
Tax forms indicate that Raykovitz’s wife, Katherine Genovese, was executive vice president of The Second Mile. She has been with the group since 1984. It’s not clear if she still works at the charity, as the staff biography page has been removed from the website.
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/football/ncaa/11/14/Jack.Raykovitz.ap/index.html#ixzz1dijtC8eX
She [Dutchcot] has also removed the mention of The Second Mile from her website.
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/football/ncaa/11/14/Jack.Raykovitz.ap/index.html#ixzz1dijMmSWP
First – How does a psychologist miss this? Then, how does he ignore it after being told? Second Mile and the Nittany Lions Kids Club seem intertwined as well.
snip>
She was listed as the second-highest paid employee. In 2010, Raykovitz made $132,923, and his wife made $100,580.
The other five employees made between $8,700 and $75,000, totaling $277,871.
According to Sandusky’s book, Raykovitz and Genovese were involved from the start, when Sandusky created the charity in 1977 with 45 kids attending summer camps. It quickly ballooned, simultaneous with Sandusky’s growing football fame.
And in 2010, they said, in advertising, they were reaching more than 200,000 kids across the state. The majority of those were through its sports trading card program called Nittany Lions Tips, which features motivational messages from Penn State athletes. The organization also has a leadership institute, provides counseling services, foster family support and early intervention programs.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/11/ceo_of_the_second_mile_steps_d.html
From an ancient Child Protective Services worker: re Matt. Either biomother signed consentually for a TPR & adoption, or she’d been drug-ridden or psychotic for years without hope of recovery, or there was a corrupt Court. One does not lose custody, for a “person in need of supervision”, much less their parental rights, for a barn burning
Catch at 10:
http://rockcenter.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/14/8804779-jerry-sandusky-to-bob-costas-in-exclusive-rock-center-interview-i-shouldnt-have-showered-with-those-kids
also, TMZ alludes to a sandusky flying LaGuardia to Detroit.
Guess Dutchcot had to let him out for the media payola.
Imo his view of reality is true (ego syntonic). He will therefore sound believeable to many.
Agree, Blink, he himself was abused by trusted ones.
Needn’t be family. By his MO it’s not a Catholic (or other) church either, or scouts, etc.
His MO is an athletic shower locker room, and a basement aligned with sports events, or hotrls aligned wirh big football games, and high school wrestling mats.
Look to his coaches as a child, or his mentor coaches as he promoted up. Enough said. And he’d never be able to say it to himself.
What would Sandusky need in Detroit?
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Jane Banks – a gift for you…
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7205085/growing-penn-state
Is this the article you have been looking for?
My questions:
Why did the investigation take so long to complete? (see link below)
Why was McQueary referenced as GA in the presentment and not by name?
How did investigators find out about the 2002 incident?
Who will be the 4th to be indicted?
Why is Penn State paying the legal fees for the two guys who perjured themselves?
Why was JoPa fired, and not allowed to retire or resign, while each of the two guys who perjured themselves were allowed to either resign or return to retirement?
I have no horse in this race at all. In fact, I don’t even follow college football or know anything about the culture, but all morals and ethics aside, Sandusky was not JoePa’s employee in 2002… from what I have read, they had very limited contact after Sandusky’s retirement. I also read that he did not know about the 1998 accusations/investigation, but at this point, anything is possible. Not sure what else he was supposed to do after reporting what McQueary told him that he witnessed.
This article answers some of my questions, but raises many many more issues. This is like one big dysfunctional family, everyone is so enmeshed.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/11/special_report_why_the_jerry_s.html
One boy just denied. I think they’re going to have to bring in adult surivors of other rings – who may be in a position to better debrief these vics … it is 100% possible they were threatened so very well and very early on, as well as being coerced in some ways in the abuse of others == generational silence. Look at the issue of Jaycee Lee Dugard – how she covered up in the beginning because she was afraid. When powerful men say “it doesn’t matter what you tell – complain all you want, we’ll still be running things, and don’t you forget it” – this is why we have generational pedophilia.
The inane statements just keep coming.
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McQueary has not spoken publicly since the Penn State scandal broke. But, last week, in an email obtained exclusively by NBC News, he told friends and former teammates:
“I did the right thing…you guys know me…the truth is not out there fully…I didn’t just turn and run…I made sure it stopped…I had to make quick tough decisions.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45286426/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/penn-state-assistant-coach-i-did-right-thing/
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Wonder when someone that was molested by someone other than Sandusky, through Second Mile will step up, or have they?
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Close to 10 additional suspected victims have come forward to the authorities since the arrest of the former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky on Nov. 5 on 40 counts of sexually abusing young boys, according to people close to the investigation. The police are working to confirm the new allegations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/sports/ncaafootball/jack-raykovitz-chief-of-second-mile-resigns-amid-penn-state-scandal.html
OMG, entities now involved in the scandal. We can only hope the PA School Counselors Association isn’t one of them.
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The grand jury report called Sandusky the charity’s primary fundraiser, and The Second Mile’s annual reports show that some donations came from entities now involved in the scandal.
Major companies and their foundations also have given to The Second Mile. Between 2008 and 2010, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Highmark Foundation, The Hershey Company and State Farm Companies Foundation all gave $50,000 or more to the charity.
Other donors included U.S. Steel Corp., the University of Pittsburgh, The Pepsi Bottling Group, Frito-Lay, the Pa. School Counselors Association, local Walmarts and newspapers.
http://www.13abc.com/story/16039420/president-of-pa-charity-linked-to-abuse-resigns
Blink is MIA for more hours than usual and already my mind is reviewing all the bad things that have happened to people who expose creeps in high places. Knowing/hoping she’s probably just busy on the case.
I’ve read enough now to know they’ll all never come to light. But hope enough will to shut down the remnants of this particular web of evil.
I read about a parish priest who helped found Brownson House, where Jerry Sandusky grew up with his parents who moved into an apt in that facility. His dad was a streetcar driver and his mom a hotdog street vendor. They just loved children and wanted to help (and needed jobs).
I caught up with the old scandal from my home state, and discovered an adult-survivors group of child victims of that “treatment facility.” It took over twenty years for Louis J Poetter to be convicted–of the small portion of sexual abuse crimes he committed while head of his own family-owned wilderness program, Anneewakee, in Douglasville, GA.
Poetter (pronounced “pedder”) was a pederast psychologist who manipulated local politicians, offered one of the few options for kids who were so screwed up that even his abuse was a lesser evil than their own families/foster care system. I was in college and grad school with Roger Rinn, who walked in on Poetter abusing one of the kids. Rinn brought a civil suit (now in the dead files) in order to try to get something moving to stop Poetter. Rinn fed info to the GBI. As future psychologist-in-training, we were all horrified.
Jim Parham, in a state oversight position, was finally also named in the whole mess. Elected officials, up through the Governor, accepted political contributions from the Poetter family, most of whom were on payroll. They all did well financially. Poetter openly encouraged the staff to “have sex with” (abuse) the patients. He said it was good for them. (Yep, there ya go Blink.) The humanistic psychology movement at the time provided an atmosphere in which these kind of statements could be believed, by those who chose to make that interpretation.
The local sheriff, Lee, was one of the few honest people in power who did all he could to stop this. Many of these people are dead now. Poetter, now 92, is out of prison and off supervision. His wife died this year.
Did Mable Poetter know? Does Sandusky’s wife know? I think it depends sometimes on what you mean by “know”. A lot of people had secondhand knowledge.
I hope Poetter, and all the people in power who enabled him (and maybe met up in Mexico with him and the kids on those trips, and abused the kids, too)–judges, investigators, bureaucrats, politicians–I hope they all rot in a hell I’m not sure even exists.
This was the 1960s, 1970s. I went on to be the mop-up, hatchet-woman at another tx center (church-owned) that had no legal problems, but did have a previous director who always took the “children” on his lap. Because he just “loved” children. We hired PIs to do surveillance on our own staff. I feared for my life. It needed to be done, and it will require eternal vigilance everywhere that people have contact with children.
Stay safe all you who are going to expose these people–the tangentially related ones who have money and power far beyond University Presidents and famous football coaches. They are well-connected and will stop at nothing and you’ll never see it coming. God bless you and help us all.
WHY would Sandusky and Amendola do a TV interview????
I could see the possible spin factor potential for Amendola to agree to an interview on Sandusky’s behalf, but as you probably heard/saw- imo, this was a very poor lapse in judgement that added fuel to an already uncontainable inferno.
I really feel like Sandusky thinks he will beat this. He said that the prosecution could not identify the child in the shower from the 2002 rape. Amendola says on public television that he believes THEY HAVE.
Is this guy really that stupid to announce they have been in touch with a witness in this case outside of the bounds of criminal process and procedure?
I have no doubt there will be countless young men that were victims who refuse to be named, or will deny that Sandusky was anything but a saintly father figure- it goes to how prolific of a predatory pedophile he is.
Textbook really. I was having lunch with a colleague of mine a few weeks ago who was telling me about a study that has yet to be released by a very well respected leader in the field ( I am not going to name names and steal anyone’s thunder, but I will promote it here when it is released from peer review) that concluded that up to 95% of child sexual abuse victims do not report the incident or incidents to their parents or caregivers on their own.
In other words, the discovery of the abuse is a secondary finding through some other means. WTF?
I will tell you wtf that translation is- in most cases, it means that pedos are so deft at choosing their victims and skilled at keeping them quiet, they actually have a victim convinced they want to be abused, or that it is something they needed or did to make the perp abuse them.
Can we all see how others with professional and personal experience directly in this area are adamant dealing with the fallout of a freakshow like Sandusky takes years and years and in many cases is a situation where it remains an underlying factor in a victims troubles for the rest of their life?
This is not just about Sandusky’s victims. This man created a new cycle of pedophilia, and it will not stop until we know who, why, what and who next.
Have I mentioned how much I hate this case?
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@lizzy: thanks about the schools’ proximity. I figured they were geographically close when I found that Judge Dutchcot’s husband, Arthur Entz, taught at Bellefonte H.S. till he resigned in 2008.
Jerry Sandusky being free makes him a moving target for anyone he can put the finger on. I hope he doesn’t meet with an untimely death. Or get upset and “commit suicide”. Ya know? I now view him as small potatoes.
Oh, and he had, what? over 2 years warning of an investigation before his home was ever searched? So, not only did he have plenty of time to remove evidence, but so did anyone else who might have had, oh, pictures and film of their crimes with these children? If Madden is even close to right, we’ll never see the iceberg.
Ya’ll know here, I think, how the intimidation and/or reward system works in the coverup, which has already begun.
Sandusky’s first investigation as it related to an incident on grounds was in 1998. He offended in plain sight of people apparently. He cruised the parking lot personally for hours after again being spotted in the act in 2000 according to Calhoun.
He was aware of the possibility he would be under investigation almost always, and yet, no indictment until 2011. Interesting question would be, what parameter has changed in this scenario recently?
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Who’s to say that the attorney that disappeared wasn’t attempting to get a pay-off to shut the investigation down. The meeting was to be an exchange of money for the evidence…not to cast aspersions on innocent people (especially those who can’t defend themselves). Lots of questions still to be answered.
The overall societal question is what is your soul worth? For how much power, ego, money can your soul be bought? That is the essential question here.
Having said Penn state football should have been shut down for the rest of the season, it was touching that the players silently took the field, and met the Nebraska players for a prayer for the victims at mid-field…this scandal is showing both the best and the worst of collegiate football.
Well I can only say that there is no evidence that Gricar ever received any sort of pay offs.
I do agree with your overall commentary about the bigger picture here.
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Supposedly, “In 2007 Robert Stone, the Board Chairman of Second Mile, hosted a fundraiser for Dutchcot in his home, for her campaign for District Judge, according to records of the Committee to Elect Leslie A. Dutchcot….”
Stone: pres & and CEO of S&A Homes, a State College-based homebuilder.
In 1999 Stone & wife $500,000 to Penn State for endowments. You can read how those were earmarked at the link below.
Now we’re starting to see the kind of money that I’m looking for; not that I’m suggesting Stone did anything wrong at all. Just saying, here’s an example of what will be of interest in the wider web of this. And there won’t be an easy paper trail; certainly not in law enforcement or court records. IMO. Blink and others, I trust, have or will obtain interesting items.
Will Sandusky be the equivalent of a low-to-mid-level supplier???
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57324173/sandusky-bail-judges-ties-to-second-mile/
Does anyone think that Spanier and Paterno would be out if there wasn’t some pretty solid proof (of which they are now aware) of Sandusky’s guilt?
Absolutely, unequivocally not. They would have done most anything to keep Paterno out of this, proven by the fact this went on as long as it did, and survived years of multiple agency investigations.
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Today in the media Jerry Sandusky said he was just “horsing around” with the boys.
Is that what they call it these days ? ? :<
What would Sandusky need in Detroit?
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IDK. Visit some old friends or relatives of Christopher Busch? Or was it related to those eight rolls of film police got from Christopher Busch? Maybe just speak with some Second Mile donors from up that way?
You foreshadowed earlier a connection back to North Fox Island. So, I’m wondering who filled in the supply of young boys and of child porn related to that ring?
I’m so disgusted; I feel like I’ll never live long enough to see this crap end. Although I’m so encouraged by the young people at Penn State–they give me hope for the future.
Don’t be discouraged get back to work, lol. Nothing wrong with your research skills apparently.
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OMG … my head is my head is spinning around and spewing vomit
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The lawyer for accused pedophile and former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky reportedly impregnated a teenage girl more than a decade ago.
Joe Amendola, 63, was the attorney for Mary Iavasile’s emancipation petition from Sept. 3, 1996, which was filed just weeks before her 17th birthday, according to Centre County Courthouse documents obtained by iPad newspaper The Daily.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/sandusky_lawyer_impregnated_teenage_7jKwQMCeBlm9RSdr9zeutK#ixzz1dnbZBLuw
Yep. How that goon did not have a bar complaint filed against him is beyond me.
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Is it Dumb to wonder why Jerry Sandusky is not locked up
He seems to think his behavior with young boys is normal
Rough housing in the shower
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/jerry-sandusky-i-seeking-young-person-sexual-helped-article-1.977730
If anyone has not viewed the TRANSCRIPT from the full interview last night- you need to read malty’s link.
The interview was supposed to be with just Amendola, and then he offered to get Sandusky on the phone-
It was edited, and without question, as I reviewed it again today, I am convinced for reasons I can only guess at, that nobody thinks Jerry will ever see the inside of a jail cell, and if I were him or his family, that should concern me greatly.
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