The judge had removed 3 counts before starting jury deliberations.
From live TV, no link to a news story yet.
Adding a news link.
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/22/12363955-sandusky-convicted-of-45-counts?lite
On a sad note the above article reminds us that the verdict comes exactly 5 months after Joe Paterno's passing. Hopefull Joe can Rest In Peace.
Sandusky's defense lawyer said he would probably have a heart attack if his client were acquited.
I pray that the victims and their families can sleep better tonight.
Paul in PA
Good GD ridance to that POS pedophile - and his clueless wife.
Fox News is running the coverage live right now.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/22/sandusky-jury-has-reached-verdict/
I say he should serve his sentences consecutive - not concurrent.
My 2nd wife was brutally raped while we were married.
It is nothing one can get over. I never will. I know that much.
> Good GD ridance to that POS pedophile - and his clueless wife.
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> Fox News is running the coverage live right now.
>> http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/22/sandusky-jury-has-reached-verdict/
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> I say he should serve his sentences consecutive - not concurrent.
> My 2nd wife was brutally raped while we were married.
> It is nothing one can get over. I never will. I know that much.
GOOD!!!! He can rot in hell!!! :clap: :good: Bubba is gonna take care of him, though...Pedos do not do well in prison. 😐
I was brutally raped and beat to a pulp at age 14 by a family "friend" (who's now a piece of trash gang banger/murderer). I held onto that garbage for years and it almost destroyed me inside and out. I finally told myself enough is enough, either I choose to live positive and productive and let this go and be happy, or it will never let ME go.
It took me a few years, but I got help for this (and for other abuse/trauma I had suffered at the hands of others), and I had a wonderful support system of loved ones to keep me going along, and I did it. I can say I did get over it. I was the victim in that situation, but I chose to not REMAIN a victim. I chose to NOT let anyone or anymore situations like that to ever have that kind of power over me or live in my heart rent free ever again. Life is too short for that...and I want a happy, fun life, not a "Gloomy Gus Woo Is Me" life.
Sure the "rape" comes up from time to time, especially when I am counseling someone else who's gone through it or some sort of similar trauma/abuse, but when it does come up I can now discuss it logically without getting angry, without crying, without hatred, without any bitterness, without the F' yous, etc...and I can go to sleep happy. I'm also a firm believer in karma. 🙂
Hopefully your 2nd wife can or has gotten help for it and knows there is hope, there is help, and that a person can be happy again. If she ever needs someone to talk to, send her my email. :angel:
Good for you Angel!!! What an awesome attitude.
I can't understand why any 'man' would ever do such a horrible thing.
The scary thing is there are more out there like him.
I just stared at the TV after the verdict was announced. My stomach was just in knots.
The man might be sick, but he is a sick bastard and rotting in hell is too good in my mind.
His wife needs to be in front of a jury also, just sickening.
Randy
As well as those who knew for years and never made a credible effort to stop what he was doing. Just as bad as he is for protecting a football establishment by being silent while kids are getting raped.
Angel, Good on you, and for moving beyond that mess. To me, this story is inspirational... I can imagine that if I saw somebody doing that to my daughter, I'd run so hard, and hit him so hard, that the same outcome is possible.
People that assault kids, and the like, well, I feel defensive of the victim.
Nate
i vote for mandatory castration
By two rocks.
> As well as those who knew for years and never made a credible effort to stop what he was doing. Just as bad as he is for protecting a football establishment by being silent while kids are getting raped.
It is a shame. I do not believe for a minute that they were protecting the establishment. Colleges are big business and with big business comes big money. They were protecting the bottom line. Same thing with this whole mess being drawn out this long. I do not believe any of the defenses crap that the children were trying to shake him down, but because he has money you have to let due process take its course, because sadly there are people that have money that get shook down for it every single day. It is just another example of the sad state of affairs that we as Americans live in.
I doubt he has it in him, but if he was ever any kind of person that he claims he is, he will make short order of hanging himself in his cell. Some might say that is a cowardly way out, but I think that would be the only way to give closure to those lives, entities and legacies that he has destroyed. In an essence he would be holding himself accountable by admitting what he did in a macabre kind of way and allowing everyone else to pick up the pieces and move forward.
Sad there has been no follow up at all for all the Priests violatimg altar boys. And the supervisors who know are just as guity as the perverts they protect, then send to a different parish with no warning or heads up to find and violate more victims.
If you drive the car to the bank robbery, and someone gets killed, you are charged with murder. Should be the same for cardinals and right up to the Pope. Pure godless vile and heinious actions. Thank DOG they are following up on at least two of the Sandusky accomplices.
> Sad there has been no follow up at all for all the Priests violatimg altar boys. And the supervisors who know are just as guity as the perverts they protect, then send to a different parish with no warning or heads up to find and violate more victims.
Yesterday's overlooked news
Jury convicts Lynn of one count, deadlocks on Brennan
A jury convicted Msgr. William J. Lynn of child endangerment Friday, finding that as the Archdiocese of Philadelphia secretary for clergy, he ignored credible warning signs about a priest who later sexually assaulted a 10-year-old altar boy.
The verdict, after a three-month trial, marked the first time since the clergy sex-abuse scandal erupted nationally a decade ago that a Catholic Church supervisor had been found criminally liable for child-sex crimes by a priest.
Interesting Precedent Fleming
As a follow up certain Penn State officials in charge can and will be charged.
Those responsible for public safety and the use/miss-use of facilities.
Paul in PA
> Good for you Angel!!! What an awesome attitude.
> I can't understand why any 'man' would ever do such a horrible thing.
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> The scary thing is there are more out there like him.
Thank you. 😀 I keep my spirits high, and keep on truckin'!! 😉
Some POS'es (cause a REAL man would never hurt a woman or a child like that) are just that....POS'es. IMHO of course. 😉
> Angel, Good on you, and for moving beyond that mess. To me, this story is inspirational... I can imagine that if I saw somebody doing that to my daughter, I'd run so hard, and hit him so hard, that the same outcome is possible.
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Thank you, Nate. I move on and move up!! (Hummm...I am moving into a new house next Sunday!! 😀 :clap: )
That man is every moms newfound hero, now!!! :clap: :good: SO glad he was not charged with any crime. I don't want to get too preachy but I bet if all of those low life scumbag !@#$%! child molesters out there were "handled" the way that guy handled the one harming his 5 year old, there would be MUCH less of it going on.
I want to say NONE of it going on, EVER, but there will always be some scumbags who think they can get away with it. o.O :pissed:
Interesting Precedent Fleming
Its a shame the Paterno isn't spending his last year in a dungeon.
Leave Paterno Out Of It
Sandusky was an assistant coach for Paterno and left the coaching staff for reasons unknown prior to all these incidents. Paterno was not the person who allowed Sandusky to continue to use Penn State facilities. Paterno knew Sandusky as the man he appeared to be to almost all the world. Paterno directed McQueary to report that incident to the proper authorities which he did. Those authorities will have their own day in court.
As to McQueary's testimony in the Sandusky case, on that count Sandusky was acquited, correctly. Because no victim came foward, that was hearsay testimony and not corraborating testimony. On the hearsay testimony of the now deceased janitor, Sandusky was convicted, because since the witnes was deceased, hearsay was allowable. I have no doubt that the trial would not have occurred without McQueary's presence, so he was a major help.
Paterno did a very good job at what he was supposed to do, teach thousands of young men that education was more important than football. He was not the cop on the beat for everything else. The cops on the beat failed miserably. Sandusky accusations were swept aside by police and district attorneys over many years. Paterno was thrown under the Blue Bus by Pennsylvania's scumbag governor Corbett who showed up the Penn State Board meeting trying to cover his ass. Corbett was previously the PA Attorney General who for years failed to file charges against Sandusky under other on going investigations. Another scumbag would be the head of the PA State Police who shortchanged state police investigations. They though firing Paterno would make it all go away. Fie on them.
When it is all said and done there may even be a resolution to the mysterious unsolved death years ago of a District Attorney investigating even earlier charges.
Penn State and Pennsylvania have much to answer for but Paterno has the cleanesr hands of all.
Paul in PA
Leave Paterno Out Of It...you can't
If you think that Paterno had no idea what was going on with his longtime associate/friend and defensive coordinator, you have bought into the 'Joe Pa' paternal legacy and the image. Just like Sandusky created the Second Mile foundation to wear a halo despite his abhorrent and heinous acts maybe Joe Pa donated his library as part of his personal penance for letting Sandusky continue his crimes.
Maybe Brooks Cooper words were a little harsh but he has a point that there should be zero tolerance for anyone who looked the other way from Corbett, Curley Schultz and others.
You can't believe Paterno was that far out of the loop. If you do than you see him as a complete buffoon with advanced degrees from prestigious universities.
Maybe Freeh's investigation will provide the reasons for Paterno's comment “I could have done more." I would think that most people believe that he could have done a lot more prior to 2002 than having Sandusky resign from his staff. Of course, maybe that was thought to be some sort of severe corporal punishment among PSU fanatics.
Leave Paterno Out Of It
Joe Pa was dirty and covering all of this up. Yeah he reported it and nothing was done. If your assistant was raping boys and you told one cop who did nothing would you feel guilty? Or should you maybe report it to higher powers? Do you think a man like Joe Pa could have access to the head of the state police or perhaps the attorney general of the state of Pennsylvania? Its that kind of rationalization that allows stuff like this to go on.
I wish Joe Pa would come back to life so he could be publicly executed along with Sandusky and that big red headed rape enabler.
Leave Paterno Out Of It...you can't
Couldnt agree more! So tired of the poor Joe Pa crap. And you can't tell me that his wife had no idea what was going on. Was the basement soundproofed or what??
