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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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