State College, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Penn State's leaders showed "total disregard" for victims of child sex abuse and failed to protect children, an internal review has found. In fact, several senior officials "empowered" former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky to attract more victims for child sex abuse, the report found. In a statement released along with the 267-page report, Louis Freeh, the former FBI director and federal judge who spearheaded the review, blasted several top former officials at the school. "Our most saddening and sobering finding is the total disregard for the safety and welfare of Sandusky's child victims by the most senior leaders at Penn State," Freeh wrote. "The most powerful men at Penn State failed to take any steps for 14 years to protect the children who Sandusky victimized." He went on to name four former school officials -- former President Graham Spanier, former Vice President Gary Schultz, legendary former head coach Joe Paterno, and former athletic director Tim Curley. The four men "never demonstrated, through actions or words, any concern for the safety and well being of Sandusky's victims until after Sandusky's arrest," Freeh wrote. Their failure "to protect against a child sexual predator harming children" lasted "more than a decade," the full report says. "They exhibited a striking lack of empathy for Sandusky's victims by failing to inquire as to their safety and well being, especially by not attempting to determine the identity of the child who Sandusky assaulted in the Lasch Building in 2001. Further, they exposed this child to additional harm by alerting Sandusky, who was the only one who knew the child's identity, of what (Mike) McQueary saw in the shower on the night of February 9, 2001." http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/12/us/pennsylvania-penn-state-investigation/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
My favorite tweet about this has been this one Jay Allen 750TheGame @PDXjay NCAA says Penn State didn't show "lack of institutional control" as defined by NCAA Manual. Sounds like it's time to REDEFINE!
What's sickening is Matt Millen STILL defends Paterno (this morning on ESPN) and feels his lack of judgement should not overshadow his body of work at PSU. I say bullshit - Paterno is sitting on a rung in hell right now!
The Penn State football program should be given a 10yr death sentence as an example to all other college football programs.
darren rovell @darrenrovell BREAKING: Nike is taking Joe Paterno’s name off its childcare center on the Nike campus.
If you or I did this, we'd rightly spend years in jail for being accomplices after the fact, obstruction of justice, conspiracy... Let's see what actual "punishment" these rich boys get, if any.
Like I said in the begining - by the time this is done, the only person not blamed for Jerry Sandusky's crimes will be Jerry Sandusky.
JoePa was a legend in Happy Valley. What a disgraceful end to his legacy. This one terrible act negates a lifetime of good deeds. Who the fuck puts the interests of a child molester above kids? Job #1 as a college football coach is to monitor the welfare of kids. You're trying to turn them into men. Instead, you cover for this maggot.
And thank goodness for the moral compass of the prison population. With murderers at the top, it steps down to the bottom, which are the rapists. Lowest on the rung are the child rapists. I'm pretty sure Sandusky is going to experience what it's liked to be raped, again and again and again and again.
it was probably not the best postion to be in (if you are wrong you ruin your best friends life), but you need to err on the side of the children i would say
It's not one terrible act. It's a terrible act he repeated every day for over a decade, allowing new victims to be molested over and over.
