Lots of nasty things going on at Penn State with the authorities and university staff looking the other way for years while Football Defensive Coordinator Jerry Sandusky was raping 10-year olds.
After the grand jury report was released, Paterno has been fired by the School Trustees, riots broke out by students frustrated by the firing, and the whistleblower who saw Sandusky molest a child has been put on administrative leave.
Sandusky’s book “Touched” is still available on Amazon. When such animals such as Sandusky are charged with such heinous crimes, should they still be able to receive royalties from their books? Should they rightly be donated to the victims? Or should censorship take over and it be banned? I don’t agree with the latter although many on Amazon are calling for that.
Until Sandusky is convicted, I believe he should be free to collect royalties. You can’t really do much after a conviction as he isn’t making money off of his crimes though I’m sure the royalties will go towards the huge liabilities faced by him, Paterno and the Penn State from his victims. Right now there are a whole lot of people at Penn State thinking about or being paid to think about how much it’s going to cost to pay off all those victims and keep them out of the media. With the general lax standards of college football, the general corruption, and the huge piles of money they make off of it, no one in the collegiate football group much less the NFL want this story sticking in the media. I expect it to become a non-story by next week. CNN International is already helping with the scrub down. :fume:
Paterno was a God like figure there, and Penn State was known in football circles as ‘linebacker U’ because of their ability to develop professional linebackers. Sandusky was the key defensive coach that built this reputation. He was supposed to take over for Paterno many times but the 84 year old never retired (I bet he wish he did now).
Their huge status no doubt afforded them a lot of leeway when it came to disciplinary issues, take for example the McQueary situation. He witnesses a crime, but the figures involved are so ‘above the law’ he doesn’t report it straight away but goes first to his father to see what he should do.
There is no excuse for any of this now. Penn State needs to fire everyone remotely involved, then anyone with even the slightest contact stench from this who wasn’t already fired needs to resign (from the president down). Then they can start healing and regrowing the grass.
That is the only way forward and the first step in putting this all behind them. College coaches have so much power over kids, they control so much of their future, these people are sick fucks and the damaged they caused is staggering.