It’s already apparent that the system and Penn State has let the boys down that have been sexually assaulted and raped by former Penn State defensive assistant Jerry Sandusky. But after reading some of the Grand Jury report on Sandusky, it’s even more remarkable at how failed the system really is.
Jerry Sandusky needs to be locked up for an extremely long time…for the rest of his life for sure. There just isn’t any kind of help or treatment available for a man that is this sick.
The New York Times released an excerpt detailing some of Sandusky’s victims that we know of. There are definitely others. Even though the report describes some of the sexual acts as vaguely as possible, it is still a tough read, but it really hammers the monstrosities done to these children home.
VICTIM 1 He was 11 or 12 years old when he met Sandusky in 2005 or 2006 through the Second Mile, a charity Sandusky set up to help disadvantaged boys. The coach gave the boy gifts — golf clubs, a computer, clothes — and often had him stay at his house in a basement bedroom.
Sandusky would crawl into bed with him, have the boy lie on top of him and “crack his back,” pulling the boy against him and then rubbing his back. The grand jury said Sandusky performed oral sex on the boy more than 20 times in 2007 and 2008 and had the boy perform oral sex on him once.
VICTIM 2 A boy, about 10 years old, was seen naked in a locker-room shower at Penn State with Sandusky in 2002 by Mike McQueary, then a 28-year-old graduate assistant and aspiring coach. The grand jury report said McQueary saw the boy “with his hands up against the wall, being subjected to anal intercourse by a naked Sandusky.”
VICTIM 3 A boy, about 13, was invited by Sandusky in 2000 to his home for dinners, to go on walks and to attend Penn State football games. They exercised together and then showered. Sandusky patted him, rubbed his shoulders, washed his hair and gave him bear hugs. The boy stayed at Sandusky’s home, where Sandusky blew on his stomach, rubbed the inside of his thigh and touched his genitals.
VICTIM 4 A boy, 12 or 13, “was repeatedly subjected to involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and indecent assault at the hands of Sandusky,” the report said. Contact took place in 1996 or 1997 in the locker-room shower and in hotel rooms. Sandusky gave the boy dozens of gifts — sports equipment, clothes and passes to sporting events — and threatened to send him home from the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio when the boy resisted his advances.
VICTIM 5 A boy, 7 or 8, was invited in 1995 or 1996 to Sandusky family events and football games. When the boy was 8 or 10, Sandusky would roughhouse with him, then say they needed to shower. At one point, Sandusky, naked, pinned the boy against a wall in the shower, then placed the boy’s hand on his genitals. The boy slid away, and Sandusky never touched him again.
VICTIM 6 When the boy was 11, in 1998, Sandusky was driving him to the university and put his hand on his thigh in the car. At the university they wrestled and Sandusky said they needed to shower. He lathered the boy in soap and bear-hugged him from behind. After the boy’s mother reported the incident to the university, Sandusky told investigators that he was wrong and that “I wish I were dead.”
VICTIM 7 A boy, about 10, was invited in 1994 to numerous events and sleepovers at Sandusky’s. After a couple of years, Sandusky began putting his hand on the boy’s thigh while they were driving and on at least one occasion put his hands down the boy’s pants, though never touching his genitals. Sandusky bear-hugged him, cracked his back and shared showers.
VICTIM 8 An unidentified “young” boy was seen in the shower with Sandusky at Penn State in 2000 by a university janitor. The janitor said Sandusky had pinned the boy against the wall and was performing oral sex on him.
Victim 1’s mother appeared on Good Morning America and explains how hard it was for her son to say “no” to someone like Sandusky. She also recalls another incident where Sandusky would go and pick up her child from school and on one occasion a wrestling coach caught Sandusky lying on top of the boy in a secluded weight room and somehow that went under the radar.
See Also: Was Jerry Sandusky Pimping Out Boys to Penn State Donors?
Children unfortunately have always been susceptible to sexual abuse by people like Sandusky. This whole Sandusky case is really opening our eyes to how a lot of adults don’t want to get involved when something like this happens even though it happens right under their noses. Even though if it were their children being violated that they wouldn’t want people to just look the other way. Please discuss.
