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These days, even the most shocking scandal trends and memes for an hour on social media, and then fades from public consciousness. Therefore, the Penn State child sex abuse scandal might seem like ancient history. As it happened, I wrote a number of commentaries decrying the abuse and cover-up involved – beginning with “Penn State’s… Read more.
I took a lot of flak two years ago when I asserted my reasonable suspicion that there was a conspiracy among officials at Penn State, including revered Football Coach Joe Paterno, to cover-up for serial rapist Jerry Sandusky. Recall that Sandusky was the long-time Paterno assistant who these officials knew, or should have known, had… Read more.
I know many will consider it punishment enough that Paterno is resigning in disgrace. The outpouring of support by misguided students for whom football is a religion and Paterno is god is testament to this fact. But, here again, just as decades of pastoring is not sufficient mitigation to grant leniency to a Catholic bishop… Read more.
The above title sums up the thoughts that seized my mind when I first heard about the child sex abuse scandal that has Penn State University reeling today. It stems from allegations that 67-year-old Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant coach of the storied Nittany Lions football team, used a group home he founded for troubled… Read more.
