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Summary Of Jerry Sandusky Child Molestation

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The Pennsylvania State University Jerry Sandusky Child Molestation case shed light on to a long line of horrific acts of sexual abuse and corruption within college football. Jerry Sandusky was an assistant football coach alongside the iconic football coach, Joe Paterno. While Sandusky was not brought to trial until 2012, reports of Sandusky sexually molesting football players and young boys date back to 1994 (Chappell, 2012). This was not through lack of acknowledgement; many of Sandusky’s victims came forwarded and reported the assaults to campus police, the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, head coach Joe Paterno, the senior Vice President, and the Penn State Athletic Director. Penn State’s blatant cover up of abuse allegations is worrisome and cannot be tolerated. Sandusky was tried on 48 counts of sexual abuse. The jury found Sandusky guilty of 45 out of the 48 counts and was sentenced to jail for life …show more content…

However sincere Penn State may have acted after Sandusky was sentenced does not excuse that Penn State all but denied the allegations through their extensive “No comment” stance when the abuse allegations were coming to light. It should also be noted that when the President finally did address the situation, he offered support to his colleagues, rather than focus on what is important: the victims (Spanier, 2011). Penn State acted quickly to fire the head coach, Joe Paterno, and then-President Graham Spanier, but the actions stopped there (Chappell, 2012). Penn State did what they could to further cover up their mistakes rather than offer support to the victims. Rather than take an active role in this situation, Penn State decided to take a passive role and react rather than apologize and proactively create solutions

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Case Background: In 1994 Christy Brzonkala, a student enrolled at Virginia Tech, alleged to have been raped by two Virginia Tech varsity football players, Antonio Morrison and James Crawford. In 1995 Brzonkala filed a complaint under the school’s sexual assault policy against the two football players and Morrison was suspended for two semesters while Crawford got off free. After Morrison was found guilty again at a second hearing, he appealed through the school’s administrative system and his punishment was set aside for being “excessive”. Brzonkala dropped out of the University and sued both Morrison, Crawford and Virginia Tech in Federal District Court alleging that the football player’s attack violated 42 USC Section 13981 of the Violence

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Jerry Sandusky was found guilty of forty-five out of forty-eight sexual assault cases and is currently serving a thirty to sixty year life sentence in the Pennsylvania State prison . Happy Valley is a documentary, that showed an insight into the gruesome activities that happened at Penn State surrounding the Jerry Sandusky 's child sexual assault case and how it affected this college football community. First off, how did the community reacted to the documentary? The documentary was screened on November 14 at Penn State, State Theatre, where there was, also after the film a question and answer forum for the community to ask the film 's consulting producer Mark

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The internal stakeholders in the Sandusky scandal would include Penn State University faculty, Penn State football coaches, and Penn State football players. Crandall, W., Parnell, J. & Spillan, J. (2013), explained how these internal stakeholders were affected. Four members of the faculty were either fired or forced out because of the scandal. Legendary football coach Joe Paterno was one of those who was fired, which shook up the coaching staff. The football players were unfairly penalized by the sanctions that were placed on the team.

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On November 4, 2011 there was a grand jury report released with testimonies stating that Penn State’s Defensive Coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, had been involved in the sexual assault of at least eight different young juvenile males over a period of approximately 15 years that spanned from 1994 to 2009. There were also allegations that leading officials of Penn State failed to notify law enforcement after learning that some of the incidents had taken place (Viera, M. 2011). In 1977, Jerry Sandusky initially founded a group Foster home for troubled boys known as “The Second Mile.”

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This story is a typical case of child sexual abuse with a male offender, Jerry Sandusky, who victims were aged between 7 and 13, and who had a close

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On November 4, 2011, Jerry Sandusky, former defensive coordinator for Penn State, was accused of sexually abusing eight children during his time at Penn State. More news followed saying that officials at Penn State knew about the incidents, but failed to report any of it to law enforcement. Jerry Sandusky was with Penn State for a total of 32 years. In that time, his actions outside of football didn’t go completely unnoticed. In 1998, an 11-year-old boy told his mother that Sandusky showered with him and may have engaged in some inappropriate contact.

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The Sandusky scandal had a huge impact on Penn State. There were many areas of the University that were affected. Management was definitely affected. According to Crandall, W., Parnell, J. & Spillan, J. (2013), there were four management level members of the University who were either fired or forced out. It included president Graham Spanier, senior vice president of finance and business Gary Schultz, athletic director Timothy Curley, and legendary football coach Joe Paterno.

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Penn State football was once the pride of Pennsylvania. The Sandusky scandal changed all of that forever. The University had to learn many lessons. According to Layden, T. (2014), one of the biggest issues that caused the scandal to strive was the fact that those in charge probably felt the football program was too big to fail. In other words, they felt the success of the program was so important to the University and its fans that the scandal needed to be kept on a low profile.

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They used this through Sandusky’s son Matt talking, the Penn State student Tyler, Joe Paterno and the General Attorney of the town. Matt Sandusky got interviewed and told us about the back history of how he got to know Jerry. Matt stated “I went to the mid-summer camp. That’s where I first saw and met him”. (Happy Valley 08:20) and how Jerry really helped him in his time of need but also how he felt about the case.

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Most of all he supplied attention to the youth that were underprivileged and didn't have fathers that were involved in the child's life(O'Neill, 2012). While the incidences came out at trial of particular assaults that occurred at the Penn State facility I am shocked based on testimony from the victims that more people in Jerry Sanduskys circle of friends and coworkers didn't break their silence earlier based on the repeated encounters discussed in these circles. This shows the power of manipulation that Jerry Sandusky even carried over other professionals at Penn State University as well as the children that he

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“President Graham B. Spanier, Senior Vice President-Finance and Business Gary C. Schultz, Athletic Director Timothy M. Curley and Head Football coach Joseph V. Paterno – failed to protect against a child sexual predator from harming children for decades” (Crandall, Parnell, & Spillan, 2014). These four did not report what they knew to the right people and allowed it to continue for some time, therefore, this cover up is what lead this indecency to become a scandal at Penn State. “An examination of meeting notes and e-males reveals that Spanier, Schultz, Curley, and Paterno had met and discussed the problem with various authorities, and not including the board of

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Jerry Sandusky, assistant football coach for Penn State by all outward appearances seemed to be an outstanding citizen who worked with the legendary Joe Paterno and founded The Second Mile, which was a charitable organization that helped disadvantaged youth. Unfortunately, for the children, Jerry Sandusky was also a serial child rapist. Another tragedy is that although you would think if anyone knew of the abuse, they would have helped these children, in this case, people in high places knew of the abuse and did nothing. Some of the most powerful people, which included President Graham B. Spanier, Senior Vice President-Finance and Business Gary C. Schultz, Athletic Director Timothy M. Curley and the Head Football Coach Joseph V. Paterno, at

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Michigan State is being investigated by Betsy DeVos and her department on what the university knew, and what they could’ve possibly been covering up. The New York Times states, “The lawsuits and the legislative inquiries center on what Michigan State knew about Dr. Nassar’s behavior during the two decades he worked there. Several victims have alleged that they had told Michigan State employees, as far back as the late 1990s, about being molested under the guise of treatment.” Many victims (along with the public) are outraged with the university. Due to the scandal, three employees have been dismissed at the university; former gymnastics coach Kathie Klages, former head of MSU’s sports-medicine clinic Dr. Jeffery Kovan, and former Dean of the MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine Dr. William

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In 1988, Indiana Basketball coach, Bobby Knight, sparked much deserved criticism in an interview with NBC. NBC newswoman, Connie Chung, interviewed Knight and when asked in regards to not getting his way during a game he said, “I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it.” Knight quickly added that his comments should not be taken out of context. The university apologized for the comments and stated that they do not reflect the views of the university. These are absolutely deplorable comments to make on national television as the head coach of a prestigious basketball program like Indiana.

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