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BAD GUY #1 |
NBC news now says Mike McQuearyclaims he did break up the Sandusky rape contrary to what seemingly everybody
inferred from the Grand Jury report. The
CEO of The Second Mile has resigned and it looks like event the judge in the
case bleeds Penn State blue and is a contributor to Sandusky's "charity."
Here at TodaysACCHeadlines.
com, we have dedicated some time, energy and cyberspace to both trying to
figure out what the hell happened, and, more importantly, why did the decision
makers at Penn State do what they did while Sandusky prowled around their
campus.
The unwritten conclusion from last week's PSU articles was that major college football has become such a monster of power, money
and greed that it corrupts people – even a program that has prioritized
sportsmanship and academics such as Penn State’s under Joe Paterno’s watch. In this case, the college
football machine appears to have corrupted people who are parents and
grandparents with otherwise spotless track records.
So with all of that swirling around, somehow yesterday we
had what Samuel L. Jackson’s character Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction called a
“rare moment of clarity.” The key to figuring out how this went so
wrong for so many people isn’t what McQueary did or didn’t do or even what Paterno did or didn't do. The key is Victim #6 in the now infamous Sandusky
Grand Jury report and how then athletic director Tim Curley and others responded.
Here’s why.
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CURLEY - BAD GUY #2 (Matt Rourke/AP Photo) |
According to various published reports, the boy’s mother
contacted the police and participated in the investigation. The woman reportedly told the Mechanicsburg,
PA Patriot-News she was specifically instructed by state police not to speak
the press. In spite of some confessional
remarks made by Sandusky to Victim 6’s mother in a conversation monitored by
the police, no formal charges we filed.
Again, according to published sources, Victim 6’s mother said she took her son to Penn State police for questioning in 1998 but didn’t listen to the interview. She said she never asked her son what happened (which seems odd, yes?).
Retired Penn State Police Officer Ron Schreffler handled the
1998 case. When approached for a comment by a reporter, he is alleged to have
said: “How did you see that report?”
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GRICAR - DEAD GUY #1 |
So it appears the cover-up started in a very pro-Penn State
world all the way back in 1998, and perhaps earlier than that.
Now connect the dots with us.
Sandusky starts The Second Mile, which now looks to have
been his farm system for recruiting victims in 1977. In 1998, he is accused of a similar incident
as the 2002 shower incident. Nobody
prosecutes him in 1998 and, similarly, there is no prosecution in 2002. Who’s in on this?
Answer: Everybody.
Some people at Penn State, The Second Mile, the police, the late prosecutor and the
current judge all look to be so blinded by loyalty to all things Penn State that they have ceased to function normally.
(Note: yesterday, the
CEO of The Second Mile resigned.)
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SCHULTZ - BAD GUY #3 (ABC News) |
Simply put, in 2002 had McQueary, Paterno or Curley called
the cops, it would have become clear very quickly that from 1998 to 2002 Penn
State allowed a pedophile access to their facilities and did nothing to protect
innocent children from Sandusky. It
wouldn’t have been long before the media would be asking what was going on from
1977, when The Second Mile was founded, until 1998 both at the charity and at
Penn State?
As a result of the ensuing scandal, the Joe Pa era at Penn
State would have ended in disgrace in 2002 just as it has now in 2011. It would now appear that a significant number of the
decision makers realized that and opted to pursue Plan B - the cover up.
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JOE PA - DID HE KNOW ABOUT THE 1998 INCIDENT? |
Senior Vice President Schultz and Curley most certainly knew
about the 1998 incident. How could they not? Schultz’s department included PSU
campus police. Curley must have known
that a full-blown investigation and prosecution of Sandusky would trigger program-rocking
inquiries that would lead to Paterno’s demise and the dismissal of all the other key PSU decision makers including himself.
So when presented with an eye-witness report in 2002, it
appears that Curley decided yet again to try to cover it up to protect himself,
Paterno and Penn State football. The
contradictions between his testimony and McQueary’s in the Sandusky Grand Jury
report lead to no other conclusion. If
that’s the case, his strategy worked for nine years. He protected Paterno, Sandusky, Penn State
and himself, while he fed a group of innocent children to the pedophile
wolf. The prevailing philosophy of “me
and mine first” strikes yet again.
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BEAVER STADIUM WHEN THE VALLEY WAS HAPPY |
The conclusion looks simple:
Curley and Schultz participated in the cover up for at least eleven
years.
Whether or not they fully understood what Sandusky was up to is a moot point. They should have smelled the rat at some point and taken the appropriate action. While they managed to postpone their record-setting coach’s ugly departure they did so at the expense of innocent children. They were rightly terminated and they look to be the ultimate bad guys here along with the criminal Sandusky.
Whether or not they fully understood what Sandusky was up to is a moot point. They should have smelled the rat at some point and taken the appropriate action. While they managed to postpone their record-setting coach’s ugly departure they did so at the expense of innocent children. They were rightly terminated and they look to be the ultimate bad guys here along with the criminal Sandusky.
If Penn State football is to survive the atrocities
committed by their long-time defensive coordinator and the cover-up that seems
to have ensued, they must purge everyone with knowledge of and/or complicity in
Sandusky’s alleged abuses.
Time will tell if the new Penn State leadership has the stomach for such a difficult
task.
"...they did so at the expense of innocent children." It echoes in my head. Your analysis is dead on: a college football program - you know the one making millions of dollars for people and institutions on the arms and legs of (mostly) unpaid athletes - became more important than the lives of young boys. It is absolutely surreal.
ReplyDeleteHere are a few points that you do not have correct: 1) Gricar officially made the decision not to pursue the case in 1998 stating there was not enough evidence. This was prior to him going missing. If he went missing due to some nefarious character involved in this case, it would be a relative of the abused boy who was outraged by him deciding not to pursue the case. 2) Paterno called in Curry and then Shultz to tell them about the reported abuse in 2002. Shultz was the head of the university Police who have standing as official police...they are not glorified private security as seen in a closed housing development, but actual police. So McQuery is right when he said he reported it to the police. It is not his fault, nor Paterno's that Shultz did not file the report. Shultz and Curry deserve their charges. Paterno and McQuery do not deserve the villification on the assumption that they could have done more. when the police have decided not to do more as they did in 1998 and in 2002, there is not a whole lot you can do about it.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous: We believe everything we said about Gricar is factually correct. We would agree that his demise probably came at the hands of a relative of one of the victims. We have noted prior that McQueary is technically correct in saying he notified the police. That said, telling the guy who oversees campus police and dialing 911 shortly after witnessing a crime are two very different things...
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