Sandusky found guilty of 45 out of 48 counts

[Jaskalas]

Thought provoking question. We know he is a predator. Do we execute him?

If not, I'd let him serve my own idea of a maximum sentence. 10 years. He'd be 78 when he got out. Maybe he or his family could still care for him after that. If they wanted to.... Least we wouldn't be.

Could he still harm anyone at that age? After we already know who and what he is? Is a decade not enough? Could we reconcile releasing him with knowing we may not be paying for his medical and other bills indefinitely?

 

[OCGuy]

penn state is a failure for not reporting this guy. paterno? amazing record and legacy, but overall he's a failure because of this 1 issue. imho penn state should be barred from bowl games for N years where N is large. this is way way worse than anything that happened at OSU.

Once all of this passes, Paterno's legacy will be cemented as it should be, as one of the greatest sports figures of all time.

Yes, he should have done more than report it to his superior. Yes, his superior should have done more than report it to his superior.

Yes, the DA should have charged San-douchebag years ago when the lead detective thought he had enough evidence.

Yes, the person who caught him "tickling" others in the shower should have called police immediately.


This just seems like the perfect storm of people passing the buck. A lot of it has to do with the stigma of male rape. I guarantee if it was a little girl in the shower someone would have beat his head in....

I just can't see Paterno losing his legacy over this. Sandusky's wife should be next to him in jail though.

 

[JS80]

What were the 3 counts he wasn't found guilty on?

 

[BoomerD]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf-...t-victims-heroes-penn-state-civil-suits-.html

The 68-year-old faces up to 442 years behind bars, or what might as well be forever and ever and ever some more.

Sandusky will be held at the local jail until he can be evaluated by the state prison system and assigned accordingly. He is expected to wind up in protective custody, away from the general population, for his own protection. That likely means 23 hours a day in a 6-by-8-foot cell. In other words, a concrete box of hell.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Once all of this passes, Paterno's legacy will be cemented as it should be, as one of the greatest sports figures of all time.

Yes, he should have done more than report it to his superior. Yes, his superior should have done more than report it to his superior.

Yes, the DA should have charged San-douchebag years ago when the lead detective thought he had enough evidence.

Yes, the person who caught him "tickling" others in the shower should have called police immediately.


This just seems like the perfect storm of people passing the buck. A lot of it has to do with the stigma of male rape. I guarantee if it was a little girl in the shower someone would have beat his head in....

I just can't see Paterno losing his legacy over this. Sandusky's wife should be next to him in jail though.

I'll throw in on this -- not to diminish in any way your post.

I always had an aversion to football. I'd played little-league baseball for a year at age 13. I remember "PE" in highschool . . . and I hated football. After that, I couldn't watch a football game and follow it. My mind would drift; I'd change the channel.

So I'm indifferent about "legacies" and "legends" around all this. To me, it looks like a new revival of the pedophile priest scandal. And I'd had enough of religion even before I graduated from a catholic high-school.

But I remember that, too. I never heard -- nor experienced -- any stories of abuse about those particular priests. Even so, there were maybe one or two of them whom we thought were "three dollar bills." But they weren't pedophiles. And yet, I can see how the pedophile priest phenomenon was real. I can see how the bishops and archbishops could cover it up.

Football is a different kind of religion, so this seems sort of like sideline news of something that isn't so new anymore.

Of course, I'm a bit stunned to see Michael Reagan -- Ronald Reagan's son -- come on Piers Morgan and explain how he was sexually abused as a child at camp.

 

[BoomerD]

What were the 3 counts he wasn't found guilty on?

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/23/ex-penn-st-assistant-sandusky-convicted-abuse/

One of the three counts for which Sandusky was acquitted concerned Victim 6, an indecent assault charge. The man testified that Sandusky had given him a bear hug in the shower but at one point he just "blacked out."

The other acquittals were an indecent assault charge related to Victim 5, who said Sandusky fondled him in the shower, and an involuntary deviate sexual intercourse charge regarding Victim 2, the boy graduate assistant Mike McQueary saw being attacked in a campus shower.

 

[Triumph]

Once all of this passes, Paterno's legacy will be cemented as it should be, as one of the greatest sports figures of all time.

Yes, he should have done more than report it to his superior. Yes, his superior should have done more than report it to his superior.

Yes, the DA should have charged San-douchebag years ago when the lead detective thought he had enough evidence.

I am not the expert on this case, but wasn't it true that Sandusky didn't even work for Paterno when Paterno learned about the abuses, and reported it? He told his bosses and the head of the PSU police force. It's not like he kept Sandusky as his coach.

I am not a PSU fan/apologist, but I do believe that he was an old world man who didn't really understand the gravity of what was going on when it was described to him.

He chose to resign at the end of his season, but the Board of Trustees decided to fire him right away instead. Looked to me like they used him as a scapegoat.

 

[Anarchist420]

Thought provoking question. We know he is a predator. Do we execute him? If not, I'd let him serve my own idea of a maximum sentence. 10 years. He'd be 78 when he got out. Maybe he or his family could still care for him after that. If they wanted to.... Least we wouldn't be. Could he still harm anyone at that age? After we already know who and what he is? Is a decade not enough? Could we reconcile releasing him with knowing we may not be paying for his medical and other bills indefinitely?

That's a logical solution.

I'd go a bit further and say that I can't believe how this continued to happen if so many people already knew about it. I mean, why didn't the ones who were abused tell other people to stay the hell away from him?

 

[shira]

I'll throw in on this -- not to diminish in any way your post.

I always had an aversion to football. I'd played little-league baseball for a year at age 13. I remember "PE" in highschool . . . and I hated football. After that, I couldn't watch a football game and follow it. My mind would drift; I'd change the channel.

So I'm indifferent about "legacies" and "legends" around all this. To me, it looks like a new revival of the pedophile priest scandal. And I'd had enough of religion even before I graduated from a catholic high-school.

But I remember that, too. I never heard -- nor experienced -- any stories of abuse about those particular priests. Even so, there were maybe one or two of them whom we thought were "three dollar bills." But they weren't pedophiles. And yet, I can see how the pedophile priest phenomenon was real. I can see how the bishops and archbishops could cover it up.

Football is a different kind of religion, so this seems sort of like sideline news of something that isn't so new anymore.

Of course, I'm a bit stunned to see Michael Reagan -- Ronald Reagan's son -- come on Piers Morgan and explain how he was sexually abused as a child at camp.

I find it quite fascinating that laws against the use of performance enhancing drugs are strictly enforced in the name of protecting the health of athletes. But what do you think the odds are that football itself will be banned in light of the growing number of studies that demonstrate that the repeated head injuries associated with playing football vastly increase the risk of dementia, yet cannot be prevented by any known method of head protection?

 

[Baked]

They should shut down the entire Penn State Athletic program for a few years. This didn't happen on one person's account, the school let it happen time and again w/o saying a damn thing. Reputation is a bitch.

 

[IGBT]

I'll bet Sandusky voted for the obama.

 

[Triumph]

I'll bet Sandusky voted for the obama.

Dude, why even open your mouth?

 

[Zedtom]

We can only hope that athletic departments around the country are having discussions about the former coaches who have retired that still have locker room privileges. The stigma of this twisted person will make some people wonder if there is something going on at their school.

 

[KK]

I am not the expert on this case, but wasn't it true that Sandusky didn't even work for Paterno when Paterno learned about the abuses, and reported it? He told his bosses and the head of the PSU police force. It's not like he kept Sandusky as his coach.

I am not a PSU fan/apologist, but I do believe that he was an old world man who didn't really understand the gravity of what was going on when it was described to him.

He chose to resign at the end of his season, but the Board of Trustees decided to fire him right away instead. Looked to me like they used him as a scapegoat.

This is pretty much how I see it. I mean how much do we know of what paterno knew? If he did get reports of of, do we know who he told? And to who he told, what did they do? I mean it seems like there is so many variables here and people sees Paterno as the bad guy, but do they know exactly how this all went down, I doubt it. They see paterno as PSU, thus the lack of action by PSU, equals lack of action by Paterno. I just see that as simpleton thinking. Yes, screw PSU, screw the LEO that knew of the allegations and did nothing about it, there is alot that went down that needs scrutiny. One thing is for sure, Sandusky should be killed.

 

[wirednuts]

finally.