You have it very wrong with the 2nd Mile Sandusky Scandal.
1.Sandusky was the founder of the 2nd Mile, a charity serving troubled and at risk youth in the 1970’s. By the late 90’s, the charity was a fundraising machine with Sandusky driving the money due to his his fame as top flight defensive football coach.
2. 2nd Mile’s Board members in the 2000’s included a who is who of Central PA politics and businesses. Also, several PSU Board members were also on the 2nd Mile boardIncluding Tom Corbett, PA attorney general who kicked off the investigation in 2008, and other business leaders who contributed over $600,000 to Corbett’s successful gubernatorial campaign in 2010. WhilCorbett’s office was investigating Sandusky.
3. 2nd Mile was the largest provider of foster care, counseling, and mentoring programs for central PA’s children and youth services. Also, due to its status as a charity for youth, it was under the umbrella of the attorney general’s office from a compliance standpoint.
4. Sandusky met ALL of his victims through his involvement with the 2nd Mile, most of his victims were referred to 2nd Mile through Children and Youth Services.
5.2nd Mile exercised very little oversight in regards to Sandusky - he was allowed unsupervised one on one time with 2nd Mile clients, took clients out of school without parental consent or permission, etc. In fact, the CEO of the 2nd Mile had said they had to tell Sandusky to back off of kids before due to his “neediness”.
6. In 2008, the Sandusky investigation is kicked off by victim 1, by Aaron Fisher. The investigation stalls for two years and does not pick up steam until AFTER Tom Corbett is elected governor in 2010. In the meantime, instead of putting the PA State Police sex crimes unit on the Sandusky case, Corbett assigns narcotics investigators to it.
7.Durng the Sandusky investigation, no attempt is made to pull records from the 2nd Mile. When the SHTF in 2011,2nd Mile closes shop, former Philly DA Lynne Abraham is called to do an investigation on 2nd Mile’s role with Sandusky. About a month later, investigation is closed, no report is done, because there are no funds to do it, and 2nd Mile assets are transferred to Arrow Ministries in Texas.
8.Sandusky is investigated in 1998 by PSU police, and CYS. PSU police recommend charges to the DA, the DA axes them because CYS gave Sandusky the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval for his naked showering habits with kids.
9. In early 2001,Grad Assistant Mike McQueary hears slapping sounds in the coache’s shower. He peers around the corner and sees through a mirror a child and Sandusky in close proximity to each other. Keep in mind, Sandusky had been retired from PSU for two years at this point.
10.McQueary goes home, tells his dad whose the office manager at a large medical practice, and Dr. Dranov, a doctor at the said medical practice. Dranov asks McQueary three times if he SAW ANYTHING SEXUAL. McQueary says no. Instead, they tell Mike to let Paterno know the next day.
11. McQueary “tells” Paterno what he saw, admits later that he gave less detail to Paterno than he did his father and Dranov. Paterno kicks the report to the athletic director Tim Curley, and Gary Schultz (administrative head of PSU Police).
12. Schultz, Curley, and Spanier kick around what to do, and finally settle on telling Sandusky’s employer, 2nd Mile not to bring kids on campus anymore. The 2nd Mile CEO tells Sandusky to wear swim trunks and the chairman of the 2nd Mile board gives Sandusky the key to the fitness room at one of his hotels he owns to take 2nd Mile kids to work out since PSU is off limits.
13. Curley and Schultz plead guilty to misdemeanor failure to report, Spanier is found guilty of failure to report which is being appealed by Spanier.
14. Turns out, the “anal rape in the shower witnessed by McQueary” as told in the Grand Jury Presentment never happened. Sandusky was found not guilty of those charges, McQueary wrote a letter to the author of the presentment that he never saw anal rape, and testified at multiple trials that he only saw Sandusky with his body up against the child.
I hold Spanier and Schultz responsible for poor judgement - by all means, they should have called CYS just to cover the university’s butt. As to some grand conspiracy to protect Sandusky? No way. If it was, they would have never had reported it to 2nd Mile.
The greater crime with the Sandusky scandal is there was no investigation as to how a serial pedophile was able to found a charity for at risk kids, able to care for DOZENS of foster children, and adopt several children, Sandusky was able to dupe the experts. Yet, there was NOTHING done to dissect how he was able to do it.
1.Sandusky was the founder of the 2nd Mile, a charity serving troubled and at risk youth in the 1970’s. By the late 90’s, the charity was a fundraising machine with Sandusky driving the money due to his his fame as top flight defensive football coach.
2. 2nd Mile’s Board members in the 2000’s included a who is who of Central PA politics and businesses. Also, several PSU Board members were also on the 2nd Mile boardIncluding Tom Corbett, PA attorney general who kicked off the investigation in 2008, and other business leaders who contributed over $600,000 to Corbett’s successful gubernatorial campaign in 2010. WhilCorbett’s office was investigating Sandusky.
3. 2nd Mile was the largest provider of foster care, counseling, and mentoring programs for central PA’s children and youth services. Also, due to its status as a charity for youth, it was under the umbrella of the attorney general’s office from a compliance standpoint.
4. Sandusky met ALL of his victims through his involvement with the 2nd Mile, most of his victims were referred to 2nd Mile through Children and Youth Services.
5.2nd Mile exercised very little oversight in regards to Sandusky - he was allowed unsupervised one on one time with 2nd Mile clients, took clients out of school without parental consent or permission, etc. In fact, the CEO of the 2nd Mile had said they had to tell Sandusky to back off of kids before due to his “neediness”.
6. In 2008, the Sandusky investigation is kicked off by victim 1, by Aaron Fisher. The investigation stalls for two years and does not pick up steam until AFTER Tom Corbett is elected governor in 2010. In the meantime, instead of putting the PA State Police sex crimes unit on the Sandusky case, Corbett assigns narcotics investigators to it.
7.Durng the Sandusky investigation, no attempt is made to pull records from the 2nd Mile. When the SHTF in 2011,2nd Mile closes shop, former Philly DA Lynne Abraham is called to do an investigation on 2nd Mile’s role with Sandusky. About a month later, investigation is closed, no report is done, because there are no funds to do it, and 2nd Mile assets are transferred to Arrow Ministries in Texas.
8.Sandusky is investigated in 1998 by PSU police, and CYS. PSU police recommend charges to the DA, the DA axes them because CYS gave Sandusky the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval for his naked showering habits with kids.
9. In early 2001,Grad Assistant Mike McQueary hears slapping sounds in the coache’s shower. He peers around the corner and sees through a mirror a child and Sandusky in close proximity to each other. Keep in mind, Sandusky had been retired from PSU for two years at this point.
10.McQueary goes home, tells his dad whose the office manager at a large medical practice, and Dr. Dranov, a doctor at the said medical practice. Dranov asks McQueary three times if he SAW ANYTHING SEXUAL. McQueary says no. Instead, they tell Mike to let Paterno know the next day.
11. McQueary “tells” Paterno what he saw, admits later that he gave less detail to Paterno than he did his father and Dranov. Paterno kicks the report to the athletic director Tim Curley, and Gary Schultz (administrative head of PSU Police).
12. Schultz, Curley, and Spanier kick around what to do, and finally settle on telling Sandusky’s employer, 2nd Mile not to bring kids on campus anymore. The 2nd Mile CEO tells Sandusky to wear swim trunks and the chairman of the 2nd Mile board gives Sandusky the key to the fitness room at one of his hotels he owns to take 2nd Mile kids to work out since PSU is off limits.
13. Curley and Schultz plead guilty to misdemeanor failure to report, Spanier is found guilty of failure to report which is being appealed by Spanier.
14. Turns out, the “anal rape in the shower witnessed by McQueary” as told in the Grand Jury Presentment never happened. Sandusky was found not guilty of those charges, McQueary wrote a letter to the author of the presentment that he never saw anal rape, and testified at multiple trials that he only saw Sandusky with his body up against the child.
I hold Spanier and Schultz responsible for poor judgement - by all means, they should have called CYS just to cover the university’s butt. As to some grand conspiracy to protect Sandusky? No way. If it was, they would have never had reported it to 2nd Mile.
The greater crime with the Sandusky scandal is there was no investigation as to how a serial pedophile was able to found a charity for at risk kids, able to care for DOZENS of foster children, and adopt several children, Sandusky was able to dupe the experts. Yet, there was NOTHING done to dissect how he was able to do it.