Tuesday depositions from an alleged victim in the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse care were unsealed and released. These documents indicate that head coach Joe Paterno knew about the abuse as far back as 1976 and chose to look the other way. The unsealed testimony released on Tuesday gives details on a prior reported claim of a 14-year-old boy telling Joe Paterno the former head football coach at Penn State, in 1976 that the now former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky had sexually abused him. These most recent depositions stem from a case involving Penn State insurance provider Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association Insurance Co., which is seeking to deny reimbursement for settlement money that the school has already paid to the alleged victims. In all, an expert working on behalf of the insurance company has identified six incidents (including the …show more content…
I was insulted. A: And then you say he just walked away from you? A: Just walked away. During grand jury testimony in 2011 Paterno said he first learned of inappropriate sexual contact by Sandusky in 2001. "I do not know of anything else that Jerry would be involved in of that nature, no. I do not know of it. You did mention -- I think you said something about a rumor. It may have been discussed in my presence, something else about somebody. I don't know. I don't remember, and I could not honestly say I heard a rumor," Paterno testified. Coach Paterno is no longer with us but these new documents must force us to ask the questions is winning at all cost worth it? Is a winning program worth more than the damaged lives of these young boys or other children in other athletic programs? Yes, everyone loves a winning team but athletic programs have been steered away from the promotion of helping young people learn discipline, self-accountability, teamwork and rewards and are now about promoting a winning score, big network deals to funnel money into the pockets of school
Judge Mark Sanders used the teacher's admitted guilt to warn others about following in her footsteps, describing her "predacious" behavior in grooming the child, deeming her sexual assault on him serious even though it it didn't cross into sexual
The college football world has gone mad. Conferences are doing battle in courtrooms instead of on the football field. Teams are leaving their conferences and throwing tradition and loyalty out the window for a bigger paycheck. The Bowl Championship Series was supposed to end the confusion in the college football post season. It was supposed to crown a true champion. Instead, the B.C.S. has only brought more light to the fact that in college football it is all about money and TV contracts. Teams that have no right going to a major bowl game go because of who they are and, more importantly, who their fans are and how much money the fans are will to spend. Players are failing classes, stealing, doing drugs, breaking almost every law imaginable, and they are still suiting up to play on Saturday. In this new age of college football, there is a man who is as old school as having goal posts right on the goal line. He is short in stature, but he is larger than life. He has given millions of dollars back to his university, and he has put his heart and his soul into molding young me. Joe Paterno has become an icon of college football. In these modern times, however, his morals and his coaching style seem outdated. Now, in the twilight of his career, he has to battle a grueling Big Ten schedule, the media who made him a legend and who are now looking to make him into a fool, and even his once loyal fans who have turned their backs on him. Joe Paterno has his back against the wall; it seems everything is working against him. He could walk away now and forever be remembered as a great football coach, or he can keep running out of that tunnel and work on putting Penn State football back on the map. He can take back the title that is rightfully his, the greatest college football coach of all time. Joe Paterno should remain in charge of the Penn State football program. Along the way, he deserves every Penn State fans support, win or lose.
...at because of the size of the children there would have been physical symptoms, no documented evidence of this sort was presented during the case. Out of 100 students no physical symptoms were ever recorded, and not one student said anything about abuse until four years later when the investigator was pursued (Silvergate, 2004) No parents ever filed complaints prior to police investigation. Because memories are malleable and children are even more vulnerable to authority, it is very probable that some children just complied to the leading questions due to fear, but is it possible that they all could? The influence of the investigators parallels to the influence of therapists in cases of sexually abused children's recovered memories.
The Scandal at Penn State, lead to the arrests of Jerry Sandusky a defensive coordinator for the University. A grand jury on November 4, 2011, stated that for 15 years Mr. Sandusky sexually abused eight young boys. During that time frame, the official at the university deliberately failed to notify law enforcement of these incidents. Within a matter of a month, the number of victims begins to increase up to a total of 10. Within a year, Mr. Sandusky was found guilty in 2012. During his career at Penn State, he establishes a group home for troubled boys, which eventually became a non-profit organization known as The Second Mile. His purpose was to inspire young trouble boys to tap into their potential and achieve (2017). He captured the trust
Kids just want to have fun. In a bygone era, parents wanted kids to play sports for fun and camaraderie. However, a new attitude is developing among coaches and parents, which is mopping-up fun from youth sports. Now it's all about the team and the game. The team must win the game at any cost.
Dave Pelzer’s child abuse case, is one of the most brutal recorded cases concerning child abuse in America. At such a young age, Pelzer experienced three out of the four types of abuse: neglect, physical abuse and mental or emotional abuse.
The revelation of child abuse comes in "fragments of whispers. Children infrequently declare abuse either voluntarily or under questioning. The authority of the abuser is a gag on the abused". For the survivor struggling to make sense of the experience there can be shame and embarrassment. Recent convictions of Rolf Harris and many others have shown that survivors of child sexual assault do not speak out for decades. In the meantime pedophiles continue to groom the vulnerable children and young people safe in the knowledge that their confused victims will stay
One thing about this case that was very surprising, the fact children were basically brainwashed. They were programmed to believe they were molested under the care of Fells Acres Daycare. In addition to being brainwashed not into believe they were molested by Gerald Amirault, they were able to give chilling details of the events that they believe took place. For example there was one confession made by one female child, I like to call the magic wand confession. This little girl was able to give very clear and explicate details about her false experience.
An MSU staff member was notified of an accusation against Nassar alleging sexual assault by then teenage gymnast Larissa Boyce. Boyce notified her coach Kathie Klages in 1997. Klages, who happened to be a close friend of Nassar, took offense to the accusations. She took it upon herself to downplay Boyce’s concerns and insist that a formal complaint against Nassar would result in serious consequences.
“If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one,” says Mitchell Garabedian, the attorney whose clients have faced sexual abuse and he alleges that Cardinal Law, the Archbishop, knew about the existence of such priests and covered up for them. Calling most of these cases “shitty” the attorney who had represented a number of victims earlier, Eric MacLeash, highlighted the way such cases were dealt with. Statue of limitation on such cases is 3 years and since most of the victims are kids, they usually do not come forward until years. Even if you argue your way around it the Charitable Immunity statue in U.S. limited the liability to $20,000 and all such cases were dealt in private mediation and were hence never reported. As the team starts investigating the history of Father Geoghan, they come across a victim organisation called Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) headed by one Phil Saviano.
"College Athletic Programs Undermine Academics." Student Life. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2011. Opposing Viewpoints. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 27 July 2011.
The John Jay College of Criminal Justice found that 4% of all priests who had served in the US from 1950 to 2002 had allegations of child sexual abuse made against them (John Jay College, 2004; Terry, 2008). Most victims were male and older in age compared to victims in the general population (Terry and Ackerman, 2008).The John Jay College study of child sexual abuse in the US Catholic Church found that 81% of the victims of abuse were male. Richard Sipe, a leading expert on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, reported that of the priests with a tendency to abuse young children, about three-quarters had a preference for abusing boys. The gender preference was more equal among the group of priests who targeted adolescents (Sipe, 1995: 27). Rossetti, (1995) reported on the results of a questionnaire that was sent to more than 7000 adults. Of the 25% that responded, most of the people who completed the questionnaire were either priests, nuns or actively involved in the Catholic Church. 3.3% of the men said that they had been sexually abused by a priest before the age of 18, and 1.7% of the women reported being a...
According to “Sexual abuse is not a perk of Trump’s power.” by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, have stated that Trump, throughout the years, has diminished sexual abuse as “locker room” talk. Trump is belittling the importance of sexual abuse and minimizes what it is. He makes it look like it is not a big when it is one of the leading problems in the country. This occurred again during a radio show hosted by Howard Stern. According to an article by Guardian, stated that “In 2006, when Howard Stern told Trump he was ‘a sexual predator’, he nodded with a laugh while his daughter Ivanka--a self-described supporter of women -- giggled and patted her father’s shoulder.” Trump, himself, admitted being a sexual predator. Granted, in a joking manner but it still shows some truth into that statement but because he laughed it off, many are stating that he has diminished the issue. In overview, Donald Trump has minimize sexual harassment and considers it locker room
Sexual abuse is defined as “any childhood experience that interferes with or had the potential to interfering with a child’s healthy development”(16). According to the video, 1 in 3 girls are sexually abused by the age of 18 as opposed to 1 in 5 boys. More than 1 million of sexually abuse case are reported each year in Florida. 90% of child victims know the offender with half of them being family members. I find it interesting that one of the survivors Roberto was sexually abused, however when the abuse stopped he wanted it to continue benign that it was something he associated with being loved. The video implies that sexual abuse is about power and control and it starts with grooming, which the person manipulates the victim so that they can