I only read through Criminal charges, conviction and sentencing, but it still makes me mad. Those poor victims. Anyway, I thought I'd see what others have to say. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_State_child_sex_abuse_scandal
I read this elsewhere and I thought '....oh come on, give a pardon to a deserving guy' but, well, it is a flawed law system isn't it? Hope appeals and outcry from the public will shape up a slap on the wrist for this.
I don't think he deserves a pardon... Rape, especially for kids is very hard to talk about. I wasn't raped myself, but I was sexually abused in high school and never told my parents until my junior year after it started in seventh grade, they told the boy next time he came close, they'd call the police. I also had another sexual incident even younger than that. Some don't know what's going on, some are embarrassed, some don't know how to tell other people, and some tell and are either told to "shut up" or aren't taken seriously. Or in the case of this, the college was getting a massive winning streak from this guy and they wanted their reputation upheld. I watched this from the beginning and was angered not only he did all that to kids, but the wife heard it once and blew it off even though the kid was yelling. That's about as bad as the crime itself. I do know that Penn State got the very heavy end of the hammer dropped on them for covering up these abuse stories. Good, they should have. You don't abuse kids and expect to walk away with roses. I would've actually kept him in there for life. These kids were probably too terrified to tell anyone or mention it to anyone. I hope this teaches colleges a lesson if nothing else. I hope that they realize if **** like this happens in their college it's not just the coach who's being punished. Penn State had all the top rankings of a college football team and was ripped away from them because of their piss poor decisions, they're going to lose money, they're going to lose stature, they're going to lose a lot of scholarships that bring in the big players because of this. I hope the victims get more out of this than a criminal sentencing. I hope colleges learn from this and this guy burns in hell for what he's done. I don't care how young or old you do, if you do crap like this, you deserve as much jailtime as is offered.
