Freeh Report on Sandusky and PSU BOMBSHELL: What They Missed
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frustrated at posting theseurls– Remove (dot) and insert a .
http://mobile.pittsburgh.sbnation.com/penn-st-nittany-lions/2011/11/29/2597124/penn-state-coaching-search-ira-lubert-david-joyner-christmas-football
He never ceased significant involvement in athletics dept since he graduated per resume I previously linked. I imagine It was kind of like You invest with my firm (whatever its name was before current name) and I will donate to athletics departmental needs.
http://m.deadspin.com/5873774/was-ron-jaworski-the-puppetmaster-behind-penn-states-odd-coaching-hire
http://blog.pennlive (dot) com/davidjones/2011/11/ira_lubert_is_only_member_of_p.html
acting athletic ad also a friend:
http://www.pennlive (dot) com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/05/penn_state_acting_athetic_dire.html
Rendell connected. casinos.
http://www.pennlive (dot) com/midstate/index.ssf/2009/07/winner_of_pennsylvania_wine_ki.html
beejay/erose must’ve posted all this last Nov.
bot put him in charge of ins:
http://photos.pennlive.com/patriot-news/2012/05/psu_board_of_trustees_meeting_8.html
wonder what insurers he recommended and their connections?
governor appointee to bot
http://www.pennlive (dot) com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/03/penn_state_board_of_trustees_h.html
http://mobile.pennlive (dot) com/advpenn/db_/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=XkQIax0D
Honors financial obligations? His investment firm (which had another name in title then) defaulted on a Harrisburg Mall mortgage in 2009, resulting in its sale at auction.
omg
http://www.bluenc.com/lubert-adler-partners-ginn-development-company-et-al-charged-fraud
This personis on BOT Subcommittee handling plaintiff negotiations, ins, finance?
http://westendowners.com/category/development/ belly up in Bahamas?
defaulting on First Reliance bank loan, receivership, on an owned property
http://imgweb.charlestoncounty.org/CMSOBView/Service1.asmx/StreamDocAsPDF?viewertype=cms&ctagency=10002&casenumber=2012CP1000144&docseq=P1A9
Feds need to bring in auditors to pour over PS investments & monies asap.
As far as Freeh’s report saying PS BOT abysmally failed in Duty of Care. I agree and I bet it extends to money mgmt & investment. I am not going to pour over State Corp law. But Imo some Board member needs to get a Hot Shot Corp lawyer asap and file a suit against PS Board on duty of care issues. Case is so good, surely would take on contingency. needs to be a newly elected Board member not there during the negligence. Unfortunately the one I saw on TV yesterday at the Deli going back into Board meeting seemed linehis only platform was a culture of reverence for football program and a determination to “save the statue.” Seemed Vacuous. And likely a Lubert ally.
Maybe DOJ racketeering office needs to look around at potential duty of care violations by BOT as to investments.
Sherlock
Thanks for your long post and the book references. I’ll spend some time with the Nick Bryant book. If you go back and read one of my early posts in another piece by Blink on this subject, you will find that I predicted that there would be links found to PSU, the local government including the criminal justice system and all the way to the state level as well as possible outside the state links.
Sandusky did not manage to keep it under wraps for IMO the entire life of The Second Mile without outside help by those that were benifiting from the close association of PSU. I have also predicted that it may take as long as ten years to ferret out all of those involved. How much the feds will help is yet to be determined.
I am quite aware that pedaphilla is not limited to boys as victims. We also are beginning to find that pedaphilla is not limited to males as perps. It also includes females as well.
This ugly evil behavior has been with our society a very long time. In times past it was taken care of by the local community when it was found. Today, with all the access of communication and social media on the internet, we have a much larger community for a pedaphile to pick from.
@beejay re JKA at http://www.centredaily.com/2005/05/13/3777/corbett-says-hope-fading-for-gricar.html#comment-582315479 (I didn’t read the link prior to this one). I posted on a comment linking similar a few days ago that this link and comment at least is not at all the writing style of the JKA’s writing which Blink once posted which had a long analysis of tge Gricar case. That person wrote in an aspergerish way: intellectual analysis, convoluted thoughts, very detailed, social deafness. This one is breezy and social and lacks detail. Word girl?
@beejay. re how JS got access. My suggestion is to find out
all TSM funding sources in first 5 years of operation.
Beejay
I agree with your thoughts in the 10:35 A.M. post regarding the payments to the Freeh group vs those in a jury. I am suprised to learn that jurors are paid as much as $25 per day in some places. That is more than twice as much as jurors get paid in Texas. The last time I served on a jury in Harris County,Texas we were paid the sum of six dollars. It would not cover the cost of a good lunch.
While I think the work of Freeh did reveal some things, IMO there are many things that it did not touch. This is a way for the PSU BOT to prove to the public that they were not sitting idly by regarding this scandal. This was an expensive report in dollars. Did it satisfy the public? Probably some would be satisfied, but not those that are more astute.
TY beejay for all the reading material, wisely chosen as always
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/sports/ncaafootball/joe-paterno-got-richer-contract-amid-jerry-sandusky-inquiry.html?_r=2
That lone ethical Board member who may file suit under State Corp law against the Maj Board members on negligence grounds (duty of care) using a hot shot corp atty ftom Pittsburgh HAS to include JP’s 2011 contract.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/sports/ncaafootball/joe-paterno-got-richer-contract-amid-jerry-sandusky-inquiry.html?_r=2
His 2012 contract hadn’t even come close to expiring when this new one was written.
And Spanier/Schultz/Curley: tsk tsk. A contract of this magnitude not run by the BOT?
And what were those $350,000 forgiven loans needs for over the years by a very well compensated employee?
And the Board stepping right up and guaranteeing payment to JP in Dec 11 despite firing? More duty of care issues?
And I don’t believe Spanier didn’t run ghis contract by some Board member.
Imo this unnecessary, untimely contract is so disproportionate to benefit to Univ, it smells like payola
Blink …
My prayers are with you, your Mom, and your family.
Tough emotional road you are walking right now.
I was fortunate to be able to spend the last years/months/days/minutes with both my brother and sister before they passed. It’s hard to put into words – but I feel so blessed to have had that precious time with them both.
The Lord be with you dear Blink.
Thank you. Mercifully, he always is.
B
In a related matter to Sandusky the rapist and PSU cover-up ….
The link below greeted me as I read my morning hometown news.
This mornings headline at the AnnArbor.com site (home of Univ of Mich) …
“Scholar: Without Penn State scandal, University of Michigan might not have reported its own.”
(snip)
A University of Michigan pediatrician’s alleged possession of child pornography may never have come to light without the Penn State University scandal breaking last November, a U-M researcher concludes in a soon-to-be published scholarly article.
“Former medical resident Stephen Jenson is believed by police to have viewed child pornography during shifts treating children at University Hospital. Yet after a fellow resident came across evidence of the suspected porn in May 2011 and reported it to her supervisor, U-M OFFICIALS CHOSE NOT TO REPORT SUSPICIONS TO POLICE FOR 6 MONTHS.”
“An internal audit of the lapse reveals that at least eight employees knew about the porn by early June 2011 but did not report it.”
(end of snip-more at link below)
http://www.annarbor.com/news/scholar-draws-comparison-between-penn-state-scandal-and-u-ms-six-month-lapse-in-reporting-child-porn/
Thanks to all who helped with my forgery question. It was an unfortunate verb choice when coupled with the words, “concealed” and “sexual attacts” which had just been revealed after 10 or more years.
“…Louis Freeh, the former FBI director who led the review, said top university officials forged an agreement to conceal Sandusky’s sexual attacks more than a decade ago.”
So, yeah, it wasn’t that clear to me, redly, especially since I was already suspicious of coverups by the Penn State administration.
“WordGirl — I think it is pretty clear that the word “forged” there intends the traditional meaning of the word (to make), and is not a reference to forgery.” June 13, 2012, 12:01pm
oops. re-read my last post & out if context not year.
That a Board member might sue the rest of the Board for negligance
(dity of care & duty of loyalty failures) on behalf of PS is only a
HYPOTHETICAL of mine: a proposal & a plea for a Board member with standing to
sue for the U to step forward.
That was poorly worded, IMO. I am guily of making the same mistake when I write, not seeing the other meaning of my words.
Word Girl says:
July 14, 2012 at 3:02 pm
See Peetz quote. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2012/07/14/joe-paterno-contract-penn-state-football-sandusky_n_1673542.html
Must have been a Board member informed of that contract.
$5.5 million, executed in consideration of agreement to retire 5 months later….
Failure of fiduciary duty imo
The whole thing is a shell game with the walnut being the hope diamond or an equivalent.
B
Prayers to you and your family, Blink. I know how emotionally all-consuming a terminal illness can be. I can’t believe you’re even able to respond to our comments here.
Maybe just for today. One of the last lengthy conversations with Ma Mere was about this very topic. She told me she hates when I use the word perview when I speak. She said it sounds like a Sales Training Brochure or forward analysis and could be taken as condescending by anyone that did not share it.
Not the qualities of a message I was invested in delivering, she says, lol.
I say lol, but that is kinda her. ..”I am proud of you here’s where you nail it and here’s where you should never care if you do…” Thank you for the kind words.
B
@A Texas Grandfather: A good resource to start with and read is the NCMEC’s report on Child Molesters which Blink posted a few weeks back: http://www.missingkids.com/en_US/publications/NC70.pdf
It was incredibly educational for me. A few key points: 1) not all molesters are true pedophiles and vice versa. Some will view child porn and never act on urges; whereas some child molesters are “situational” and take advantage of an opportunity but do not have a strict preference for children. 2) Related to this first point, there are preferential child molesters vs. situational child molesters – those that prefer to have sex with children and will seek them out vs. those that will have sex with children if given access. I am not a doctor but I do think Mr. Sandusky may fit into the former category. I think it is very telling that (and someone correct me if I’m wrong) the Sanduskys never had any biological children. Maybe Dottie was not really into sex and her husband did not pursue it because, well, he wasn’t really into sex with her either. In this case I could see it as being a marriage of “image” rather than true love. They both get what they want, as wrong as that sounds. 3) Not all pedophiles/molesters have a gender preference. Some, as in Father Oliver O’Grady’s case, will molest both genders. Pedophiliac urges are more about having a weak/vulnerable and available victim than it is about having a boy or girl. Also, most true pedophiles were molested as children themselves, and sexual abuse as you can imagine has a devastating effect on one’s sexual development – it pretty much “stops” you at that point in time in your development. Whoever molested Sandusky as a child (and I’m certain he was), was instrumental in determining this psychosexual blueprint for him.
I am very much pro gay rights and have been active in the gay community, and my old instinct would have been to get mad at you for your thoughts on homosexuality and pedophilia, but I see that you just want to understand it further because you honestly didn’t know, and I commend you for reaching out and asking for that information instead of making assumptions as most do. For me the overriding difference is always CONSENT. Homosexuals, like heterosexuals, want to have sex with ADULTS of their same or different gender who consent. Pedophiles want to have sex with CHILDREN, boys OR girls, who cannot give consent. Sex between consenting adults is none of my business and has been happening between both homosexuals and heterosexuals since the beginning of the time. By and large, the overwhelming majority of both homosexual adults, the same percentage as heterosexual adults, do not want to have sex with children. So the attraction toward a specific gender is really kind of irrelevant.
Read the report above and I also recommend as other commenters have noted, that you watch the film “Deliver Us from Evil” about Father Oliver O’Grady which is available on Hulu.com (not sure if it’s free as I have a subscription) – it is as informative as it is disturbing.
Sorry for such a long second post!
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/07/analysis_freeh_report_sheds_ne.html
imo educational reminder very helpful, Lyndsay.
I looked up Blink’s metaphor. So smart.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_game#section_1
“a confidence trick to perpetuate fraud.”
“When an individual not familiar with the shell game encounters a game on the streets, it appears that bets are being placed by numerous players, when in reality, the people around the game are shills who are all part of the confidence trick.”
@Rose, I read through all the comments in CDT ‘hope fades’ article reprise for any jka posts and the two I found are not contributable.
Her other posts, yes, very consistent with a law background, living on location, very familiar with all the players.
Word choice, ideas, organization, sentence structure, conventions, and voice are consistent in other blogs. No deviation except in this last article you cite.
It’s too bad this woman doesn’t speak up publicly. She probably has a lot to say.
I meant to welcome Liala and Lyndsay earlier. Thanks for joining us here at Blink On Crime.
Lyndsay, I posted some time ago posted that sexually abused children grow up to abuse as pedophiles, or as other types of sex offenders, only 50 percent of the time. I will look for the sources for that when time.
It’s awesome you’re joining us from Belgium. Keep that little Mannequin Pis (Manneken Pis) covered, okay? lol I spent a lovely few weeks using Mons, Belgium as a home base when a relative was working at camp there.
Also, can you please eat a whole lot of chocolate for us Blinksters?
Merci bien!!
Oh! These are much better costumes! Select MP on the right, then scroll down to right-side slideshow.
http://www.museedelavilledebruxelles.be/fr/manneken-pis/dressing-room/
I’m bringing this over from a Morgan thread of just a year ago.
“Blink- I havent seem the exact post where you shared that your mother is sick. But I saw Mom 3.0′s comment. I am not sure what is going on, nor am I asking- but I just want you to know that I am praying for her…as well as you and your close family and friends.
<3 you
Pep
Ty kindly Pep
B"
And from me now on this July evening of 2012
Blink, a lot of us have been remembering and praying all this time. From the continents of Europe, Australia/Oceana, North and South America–your Blinksters are holding you and your family in our hands and hearts.
~~Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God. (Krishnamacharya)~~
Thank you kind friend and friends.
B
I am shocked…
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/07/analysis_freeh_report_sheds_ne.html
(snipped)
There’s a false belief that more information may still come from The Second Mile’s internal investigation.
It won’t.
Essentially, what Lynne Abraham’s (who is she) firm found, they used to recommend the children’s charity dissolve and transfer assets to Texas-based charity Arrow Ministries.
No internal report was completed and no public reflection about whether policies were violated will be released publicly.
___________________________________
So, that’s it?!?
Lyndsay
Thank you for your reference to the FBI based document. It is 212 pages long and will take a little while to get through it. I agree that all of society must become better educated to the activities of those who harm children and youths. Education that will help to quickly recognize potential bad behavior in order to save the future victims.
I did read a report from Harvard Medical today that has investigated the various levels of clinical classes of behavior regarding deviant individuals. There was some consideration given to an area that coincides with my belief. This did not attempt to look at the criminal aspects of deviant behavior.
Ohh Word Girl is chocaholic who is hooked on Belgium chocolate. I have to convess that I too love dark chocolate and have been known to take a block of dark bakers chocolate and shave it with a knive. It is way too hard to eat at room temperature unless it is shaved.
Can you imagine Lubert, the Board honcho of athletic dept, and Peetz under oath in a deposition
( in addition to Garban, Surma) on their knowledge of Joe’s new contract, their knowledge of Joe’s cancer, and
and the contract’s benefit to the University. Another duty of care issue. Can’t imagine plaintiff’s settling. They’ve
testified once.
Blink,
I’m spending some time this morning catching up on this thread and just read about your Mom. Prayers to your mother, you, and your entire family.
Thank you kindly
B
BREAKING NEWS – Missing girls in Iowa
Not sure where to post this, so I’ll just put it here.
Blink may want to cover this later.
Two cousins, 8 yo Elizabeth Collins and 10 yo Lyric Cook went missing
Friday afternoon in Evansdale, Iowa. Their two bicycles were found
on a path near Meyers Lake. Elizabeth’s purse was also found with
her cell phone inside. Hundreds of volunteers are searching.
The story here –
http://wcfcourier.com/news/local/update-clock-ticks-away-as-search-continues-for-two-missing/article_18411a90-cd32-11e1-a656-0019bb2963f4.html
Here we go again. Time is of the essence. Prayers for the families
of these girls and hope they are found safe.
Is it getting to the point where kids can’t even ride their bikes
in America anymore???
Sherlock
No doubt this is an abduction and sexually motivated homicide:
http://blinkoncrime.com/2012/07/15/search-intensifies-for-missing-iowa-girls-lyric-cook-11-and-elizabeth-collins-8-after-30-hours/
one of Lubert’s businesses’ clients is PA State pension funds:
http://mobile.philly.com/blogs/?wss=/philly/blogs/inq-phillydeals/&id=161225975
where do these Fla Federal fraud cases stand?
Was PS a defendant like Harvard.
http://www.phillymag.com/articles/lubert-adler-s-outrageous-fortune/
Do all PA roads lead back to the exposes by Bill Keisling? That’s where I ended up on my meanderings in PA’s Dept of Public Welfare last night.
Back in York County. Which also has that nasty open-secret history of the prostitution (some underage) ring surrounding its courthouse. And a pending request for a federal inquiry into that (need to update status on that).
Snips here are from Keisling’s article; link at the end. Quotes are from the article, interspersed with my summary material from it (not in quotes).
“Time and again, corrupt court and county officials have intervened to protect Children and Youth Services — and other insiders — from scrutiny, and blame, while kids continue to be hurt.”
“Aleta Bailey [a 5 yr old, raped, beaten, died of brain hemorrhage] was supposedly under protection of York County Children and Youth Services. Her caseworker was Beverly Mackereth, who would go on to become a prominent York County Republican….
Mackereth’s official biography on the Pennsylvania House of Representatives website reads that Mackereth, “became a Supervisor at York County Children and Youth Services overseeing intake investigations of alleged child abuse and neglect from 1980 to 1987.””
In 1983 Aleta’s estate brought a federal lawsuit was filed on behalf of Aleta’s estate.
Mackereth was elected to the state General Assembly in 2000, where she held a seat until 2008.
In 2008 Rebecca Downing, chief county detective then, brought a federal lawsuit involving a courthouse electioneering scheme. It implicated Mackereth’s campaign treasurer, Susan Voyzey. Tom Corbett was AG then; refused to investigate the allegations. [per beejay: I believe all these folks were Republicans, like Corbett]
“County GOP officials then appointed Mackereth as Executive Director of York County Human Services — in charge of county Children and Youth Services. Mackereth was in charge of the agency when Nathaniel Craver died last August.” [per beejay: there’s more at the link about Craver; and other things]
Link to all material here:
http://www.yardbird.com/a_town_gone_bad_a_history_of_child_endangerment.htm
So I don’t time out, I’ll post separately where I started wrt Mackereth.
After checking PA Dept of Public Welfare’s organizational chart, I randomly picked a place to start: the current #2 person, Deputy Secretary Beverly D. Mackereth.
She’s moved on up in the state agencies since her early work as a caseworker in York county’ County Children and Youth Services. I don’t envy her any of her jobs. But she’s currently taking heat over in Washington County (home of Sandusky). From the only judge there who is currently hearing Family Court cases.
Yes, he is a member of a community group which has made contributions to the Brownson House. It’s the local Second Mile, and I mean that in a good way. He seems to be the good guy in this instance. (And I think that’s a relative of his, Richard, who is/was with the law firm that Corbett used to work for, Rose something-something, in Wash and Pittsburgh. Nevertheless…)
“The Washington County Children and Youth Services agency may have received a favorable review this year from the state Department of Public Welfare, but the judge who oversees CYS court cases was “shocked and flabbergasted” when he learned of the evaluation.
… judge [John DiSalle] has been critical of both the agency [Wash CYS] and a Department of Public Welfare review, writing to a state official in a four-page letter about [several cases he has been involved with that moved him to pen his lengthy letter]”
[beejay’s quick summary: this spring DPW interviewed 20 people, including DiSalle, county Human Services Director Tim Kimmel, CYS Director Lori Harbert, several caseworkers and supervisors about five specific cases. Mackereth then issued a report, which did not sit well with Judge DiSalle. He followed up with a letter to her, quote below from the reporter]
““What is perhaps most insulting about your report” is that there needs to be a trusting, working relationship between the court and the agency.
“Since your report has vindicated the agency by disregarding everything the (juvenile) master and I have reported … the only inference that can be drawn is that the problem is with the court, that the court must have cut these allegations out of whole cloth. If the reviewers could find no evidence of deception by the agency … how can we work on trust?””
[Mackereth called him; said that wasn’t a complete review of the Wash CYS agency—just of a few cases called to her attention. She then ordered a CYS licensing review, which is more intensive. Said the latest one in Washington County is not yet complete.]
[Judge DiSalle had apparently told the county commissioners about some of those disturbing cases, and CYS’ lack of effort wrt them; back in November, 2011.]
“The judge accused the agency of developing “into a culture of deception.””
Well, there’s more to read. Poor Ms. Mackereth; her job must be endlessly trying, yet she’s stuck with this business for decades. She might just be one of the good guys, dealing with a huge mess.
Link:
http://www.observer-reporter.com/or/mostread11/CYS
This is not my area- is their any way to assess if other parts of the US in contrast are this big of a mess?
B
Yesterday there was an article in the Omaha press, where Tom Osborne was interviewed. I posted long ago comments about UN football, Osborne, Roskens, Spanier, etc. A reporter apparently decided to look up Mr. Osborne in light of the current PSU scandal.
From the article:
Barfknecht: PSU scandal a warning for mentoring programs
IN MY OPINION
By Lee Barfknecht
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
“Tom Osborne’s longtime friendship with Penn State football coach Joe Paterno isn’t the only reason Nebraska’s athletic director has followed the PSU child sexual abuse case closely.
In 1991, Osborne and his wife, Nancy, founded TeamMates, a school-based mentoring program for adult volunteers to build relationships with students “so as to help them reach their full potential”
[the same words, coincidentally, that are prominent on the website of The Second Mile, the reporter pointed out]
Osborne, in an interview, didn’t talk about The Second Mile. But he has strong feelings on how a mentoring program should be run.”
Link:
http://www.omaha.com/article/20120714/BIGRED/707149859
____________
Other misc quotes:
“…Look at the blind support Tom Osborne and N.U. President Robert Allen gave a pedophile like Ronald Roskens even after they were shown surveillance photos of nude young boys in Rosken’s home.”
Link:
http://eyeonomahahockeyclub.blogspot.com/2011/04/dr-daniel-schrien-and-gladiators.html
____________
“…Mr. Spanier’s long time friend and associate Ronald Roskens (former University of Nebraska chancellor and president) was directly linked to the Franklin Scandal as well as its ringleader Lawrence King. Roskens was fired in 1989 from his post when his involvement in various orgies was reported on (incl. surveillance photos of nude young boys in Rosken’s home) .”
Link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2810206/posts
[per beejay: in all fairness, the UN directors have never, that I can find, officially discussed the reason for Roskens’ firing from the university. Rumor has it that Spanier was made aware of it.]
a fair interview
http://nakedphiladelphian.blogspot.com/2012/01/penn-state-trustee-lubert-its-disaster.html?m=1
@ATG: I meant to tell you earlier that a lot of current findings on sexuality in general, including pedophilia, has not reached the wider community. I was not at all surprised to read the leap made from a male pedophile abusing a boy, to adult male homosexuality.
It takes time. Things are in flux. It’s an easy leap to make. And men especially are comfortable with the bending-over-in-the-shower-for-the-soap joke. So, don’t feel like an aardvark on that.
WRT chocolate: I can’t get with the dark. Milk is for me. Hubby eats dark “for his heart” he says. Sure.
TY beejay- to add your very kind and supportive post to ATG- without it’s specific study, I totally agree with your point and once again heart AGT for his willingness to educate himself and others.
B
This is not my area- is their any way to assess if other parts of the US in contrast are this big of a mess?
B
________
Blink: I have no happy news. Being from Georgia, home of the late state senator Nancy Schaefer, and her late husband. Who, unfortunately, were “murder-suicided” on the very weekend she was preparing some important work to be presented publicly. The topic: child protective service agency corruption and endangerment of children in its purview. Not only GA was mentioned.
There’s a link to a pdf file to one of her senatorly reports–see my link below. Rose–you know any happy news? For, I do not in my tangential acquaintance with such agencies thru the decades. Except for the dedication of the majority of the actual caseworkers. Till they burned out.
(Schaeffer was not without her faults or detractors. But I vouch for the spirit of her work.)
Link:
http://amiablyme.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/report-of-georgia-senator-nancy-schaefer-on-cps-corruption/
I wish someone had said precisely where Jerry Lauro fit into his agency’s structure. He was an Investigator with PA’s DPW. So, I always figured he was whatever they called child protective services in PA at the time. Anybody know exactly?
Rose has posted about the incentivizing of placements with federal funds. That drove a lot of past abuses within these agencies; I know it did in GA.
I’ve read a lot about all these PA partnerships to find permanent/adoptive homes for kids. Which is wonderful. Also read that PA has had an unusually high placement of troubled kids into group (trendy term is now “congregate”) facilities–as opposed to families. So, there’s activity there to reduce that too. Both of which need to be watched carefully.
Also, I’ve seen state agencies institute “programmatic changes” in response to bad press, as well as $$ incentives. In light of that, I should bring over one more accusation from Judge John DiSalle:
“The judge, in the March letter, zeroed in on a decline in the number of dependency cases, where abused and neglected children are placed under court supervision, claiming that it was an attempt by CYS to “artificially control its budget.” The number of dependency cases was down to 101 in 2011 compared with more than 300 in 2009. This trend has been reversed in 2012, with 118 cases filed so far this year, DiSalle said.”
http://www.observer-reporter.com/or/mostread11/CYS
Thanks for the welcome Word Girl, ATG.
The speed of information exchange today makes y’all not so far away. And if I could, I’d send each of you a tasting of some super fine truffle and pralines in white, milk and dark chocolate. And here is a tip if you are ever visiting Flanders – the most sublime treat known to all the Flemish people (the Flemish side of Belgium are the true artisans of belgian chocolate) is to pop a
‘Manon’ (a specific sort of ganache filled praline) in your mouth while having a cup of coffee. Yummm.
Anyway ATG, Lindsay, Beejay – I suspect the Catholic priest pedophile tragedy has had a large part in fueling incorrect link between homosexuality and pedophilia … and also don’t forget ephebophilia – abuse involving post pubescent teens. Most of the target victims in the hire profile cases in the church and even with Sandusky are boys being abused by men. It’s a very understandable mental jump most people make even though in reality it is something very different.
Dr. Leslie Lothstein – director of Psychology Institute of Living in Hatford CT treated at the behest of the Catholic church hundreds of pedophile priests and more long before the scandal was exposed. He writes in this extensive 2002 interview worth ploughing through:
“Some are calling this a gay issue and are scapegoating gays.”
“It’s horrible. But if the church wants to protect itself, it will find itself in the same position as in the McCarthy era when Roy Cohn, McCarthy’s attorney, was anti-homosexual and died of HIV. That’s what’s going to happen. 40% of the Catholic priesthood all the way up to the top are gay. We have 3% of people who are molesting minors. It’s not a gay issue. As long as anybody in our society or religion is either marginalized or scapegoated, we all are, even if we don’t know it. As a clinician I can tell you that the gay priests I treat are having sex with age appropriate men. They may be violating their celibacy, but not with children. Data are that most pedophiles are heterosexual, but you also have a small group of gay seminarians that act out with some of the teenage boys. But so are heterosexuals. As I said before, if you have a young child raised to fear, dread and be afraid of women, and he’s suddenly thrown into a group of teenagers, well, his mother never said it was wrong to have sex with men. I’ve seen so many heterosexual priests have obligatory sex with teenage boys because they can’t get them pregnant. There’s a whole group of heterosexual priests having sex with teenage boys because they can’t get them pregnant and the teens can’t threaten their priesthood because they can’t marry them.”
http://www.natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives/081602/lothstein.htm or a shorter NYT interview here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/10/us/10beliefs.html
He also notes that statistically also in the general populace one out of 3 girls have experienced sexual abuse as well.
And he calls the sexual abuse of children ” soul murder”
Rose you are just a little too young or maybe you didn’t live in a large community where state fairs were held. Royal American Shows is the largest carnival contractor in the county. They do most of the state fairs. In the period between 1930 and 1960 they would usually have one or more shell game booths. It was fun to watch. The guys running the booths were very good at palming the rubber pea so that everyone was confused but him. A very good way to loose your money.
ATG – you know the old story when you purchase a new car – all of a sudden you spot at least five of the same model when you take you first spin around town?
I know that for myself that once was exposed to the deepest blackness of human pathology, my consciousness is permanently altered – and I began to see a lot more evil than before. Years ago in New England, I became an ” accidental” foster parent as an almost kid myself in my mid twenties to a very vulnerable but tough as nails adolescent girl. She was under my mentorship at my small business in an after school program for ‘at risk’ children. It became a Gilmore Girls kind of relationship.
My ‘ daughter’ now in her thirties is a mother herself and a wife to a wonderful LEO/Corrections Officer
( yeah!!!!) However, via her journey with dealing with her life of being a sexual abuse victim from infancy until she came to me, presented me with a schooling I wish I never had. It’s tough stuff to absorb. I don’ t know how Blink keeps her advocacy going – there must be huge burnout with clinicians, police and advocates like her.
Thank God there is one glimmer emanating from the Sandusky Penn State tragedy – awareness across millions has been furthered. The rest of the world must catch up.
For example, in Belgium, I live in the medieval city of Gent. This weekend is the kickoff for the week long annual city festival ( for about 500 years) called the Gentse Feesten. To my horror, the city has allowed this children’s attraction. I saw this and nearly fell over once I realized what it was. Once the veil lifted years ago, I cannot tolerate any monkey business like this:
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/957/Belgie/article/detail/1134202/2010/07/16/Kindercircus-met-Vangheluwe-op-Gentse-Feesten-lokt-kritiek.dhtml
via google translation
“This weekend the Ghent Festivities start, but already provides a children’s circus around the fallen bishop Roger Vangheluwe controversy. That VTM reported in The News. The circus is an idea of comedians Piet De Praitere and Gunter Lamoot. The diocese of Bruges can not laugh already.
Vangheluwe recently stepped down as bishop of Bruges after he sexual abuse of two boys , was admitted. The case brought the comedians on the idea to organize a children’s circus at the Ghent Festivities. To the children to circus, children by the legs of a large wooden Roger Vangheluwe walk. Who on a rope under his groin pulls, does the arm with the lolly move.
The organizers found the initiative itself is not offensive, shocking or painful for the victims. “It is rather a wound healing,” says Piet De Praitere. “It is not about pedophilia, it’s just a show for children.”
The diocese of Bruges can not laugh already. Spokesman Peter Rossel: “I am witnessing something dirty.” (SPS) ”
And keep in mind that the EU has yet to agree upon and launch a shared sex offender registration
database .
Until now, unless Interpol gets involved, perps can freely move across borders for example between Belgium and France ( like driving from NYC to NJ) and be home free. In 2012. Long way to go.
This letter to the editor in my morning paper got my attention. “Throughout western Pennsylvania, police fielded reports or held meetings with hurt parents. Did any of these agencies contact Penn State?”
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/07/15/3261667/help-those-who-are-suffering.html#storylink=cpy
“this big of a mess”
When I was in the biz, 35 years ago:
Court Receiverships iirc happened in Portland, which pioneered mbo
as a country model, but nevertheless institutionally failed. ditto receivership
of govt foster care in DC after I left, which had eventually tried to follow Portland’s mbo model.
I don’t remember workers lying to the Court though. The Receiverships around the country were filed by advocacy groups.
I did through working the system win the right to go rat out my cps agency’s failings with recommendations for remedies to Mayor’s Asst. for same. She took over the govt Child Welfare agency but eventually decamped to Harvard. Agency was too tough to remedy. I imagine Blink it’s just worsened with lean budgets and contracting out. As we saw with Powell case.
@ATG. By “fair” interview I meant “evenhanded. I grew up in the shadow of Big Tex, and my 2 poor aunties lived in a shack up the street from the TX State Fair as well. I even remember integration: of the Fair water fountains & restrooms, the Dallas pools, and the HL Greens lunch counter.
Well beejay, you cut Court involved cps/FC cases from 300 yr to 101 yr, you cut the Court budget via statistics & cases. Maybe he doesn’t like that. The Court involved cases need not all be foster care; some could be relative placements. Personally, I think it could have myriad causes–from better in home supports & services, to a reduction in State workers/higher caseloads/less attention, or to (most likely) changes in State laws making removal dependent on a higher standard thus better documentation to prove a case.
Thanks for you post Liala.
The closing sentence of your reference made me rethink the application of the term “soul murder”. Since I believe that a soul is a creation of ones self by making moral decisions, in collaboration with GOD, it is not possible to commit the murder of a soul of another.
However, in rethinking this, whose soul is being murdered? It could very well be the soul of the perp. Constant choosing of evil leads to iniquity and that may lead to the death of the soul. And that would IMO be eternal death.
The Harvard Medical Report addressed the next level beyond pedaphillia as ephebophillia. Most of JS’ victims were in the range of ephebophillia. Clinically this may be true, but it is non- consensual sex according to our laws and that makes it rape.
misc beejay:
utah
http://www.deseretnews.com/m/article/549289
dc
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/23/us/takeover-of-foster-care-system.html
ny ala ct
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/nrcfcpp/downloads/cw-class-action-lawsuits.pdf
mich
http://www.nccprblog.org/2010/12/latest-foster-care-monitors-report-up.html?m=1
mishmash of States: PA, IL, CA
note Anderson (several PA counties)
& Aisha
KS
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981384217
CT
http://articles.courant.com/2011-06-23/news/hc-dcf-timeline-0413_1_dcf-officials-consent-decree-caseloads
I just googled foster care receivership. I’ve seen enough. stopping on p1 of results.
oops mishmash of States url
http://www.youthlaw.org/fileadmin/ncyl/youthlaw/publications/Foster-Care-Lit-Docket-NCYL-20120210.pdf
see
Anderson case in PA (Pittsburgh aclu)
Great posts and great new posters! Beejay you blew me away again with the Spanier connection. Not that I am surprised about him, but so thrilled that you found it. Great work, as always, and I appreciate that you share.
I can’t believe they put Costas on “Meet the Press” this morning, to tell us that the mural at PSU is changing again, this time to remove Paterno’s halo and put a blue ribbon on his lapel, and of course this football story would not be complete without a discussion on the possible NCAA sanctions.
No one asked about TSM. Yes, the showers were at PSU, but first he had to stop by TSM for a kid, for eff’s sake. What next? The mural is changing, we are going to paint JoePa standing with his nose in the corner and we painted out his football and whistle?
Please understand me, I have no right to kvetch about how PSU handles their healing, I’m just saying their healing is not breaking news, it should not consume 5-10 google pages daily. (I will try to get out of this attitude shortly, until then thanks for putting up with my little rant.)
dear Lord, holy mackerel – hire should be ‘higher’
@Word Girl: yup, I’m aware that very few of those that are abused themselves go on to abuse others. Most who are abusers though, were abused themselves. It’s a difficult thing to describe/word.
@ A Texas Grandfather: I still think the priest abuse issue is one of access. Because altar boys are used in the church and expected to spend time with priests, they are more accessible. Young females in the church have less contact with priests. But there are plenty of cases of girls molested by priests as well. The fact is that outside of abuse by clergy, “the overwhelming numbers of juvenile victims of sexual abuse are female” (according to Psychology Today). http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/crimes-violence/201005/priest-abuse-male-compared-female-victimization-impact. If there were some correlation between homosexuality and pedophilia, you would expect to see much higher numbers of juvenile male victims outside of the church, would you not? It would be interesting however to see if these numbers would change if the Church’s policy on priest celibacy changes – if it truly is one of pedophiles choosing the priesthood to hide behind, or of their sexual development being interrupted and somehow warped by the vow of celibacy, and these suppressed urges acted upon with the most accessible and vulnerable victims. I haven’t heard of other religions having problems to this extent with their clergy and church elders.
erose
My memory may be off, but I thought it was established long ago that Spanier had a connection in the administration at Nebraska.
In regards to the mural. I don’t know the cause of the halo over JoPa’s head. I do know from my music teaching experience that children born around 1990 and later seemed to have the concept that anyone with a lot of skill was some sort of GOD. Just where that concept originated is unknown to me. Maybe JaPa was aware of the mural or maybe not. If he was aware and he allowed that to exist,it just lowers my opinio another notch.
Ok, clean up you attitude. LoL This is going to take a long time for some to come to grips with reality. It may take hundreds of pages on google before it completes.
Welcome to the club, lol.
laila says:
July 15, 2012 at 5:25 pm
dear Lord, holy mackerel – hire should be ‘higher’
@Beejay, According to this Lauro was a state specialist supervisor during the investigation the state took over from the county regarding Sandusky in 1998. His career with DPW ended in 2006, (looks like he had 30 years in.) Now he is with NHS.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/gerald-lauro/37/461/a9b
http://www.nhsonline.org/
The state Department of Public Welfare investigator who closed a child sexual abuse investigation against Jerry Sandusky in 1998 said he likely would not have closed it had he seen reports from two psychologists who interviewed the young accuser.
“The course of history could have been changed,” Lauro said.
Jerry Lauro, brought in to investigate the child abuse claims against Sandusky, said Wednesday that Penn State police never shared those conflicting reports with him before he closed the case. Lauro said he closed the case because he did not believe there was enough evidence based solely on interviews.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/03/penn_state.html
Spanier on Muckety
http://www.muckety.com/33A37137E7CC822C2D6DAE8E58BAA064.map?big=true