Jerry
Sandusky was born on January 26th, 1944 in Washington, Pennsylvania.
Jerry’s father Arthur Sandusky served as a youth program director at Brownson
House in Washington, Pennsylvania for over 30 years. Arthur Sandusky was
inducted into the Pennsylvania sports Hall of Fame in 1989.[1]
Sandusky grew up and attended Washington High School where he was a standout
athlete excelling in baseball, basketball, and football. He graduated from
Washington in 1961 and went to Penn State where he started at defensive end
from 1963-1965.[2]
Sandusky became a graduate assistant for Joe Paterno in 1966; then bounced
around to a few different schools with Juanita College in 1967 as a basketball
coach and track coach; then Sandusky went to Boston University in 1968 as the
Offensive Line Coach.
Jerry Sandusky rejoined Joe Paterno in 1969 as the
Defensive Line coach and would stay there until his retirement in 1999.[3] In
1977 Jerry Sandusky was promoted to Defensive Coordinator and would hold that
same position until his retirement in 1999. It was also in 1977 that Sandusky
founded his “charity” called The Second Mile which was supposedly designed to
help under-privileged children. Specifically children (mostly boys) who came
from broken homes, most often boys without father figures; Sandusky was widely
praised in the media for his supposed helping children, including a special
recognition from President George H.W. Bush as a “shining example” of
charitable work in 1990.
Behind
the scenes it was much less cheery than the unquestioning media would lead one
to believe. It has now been widely acknowledged that the leadership of Penn
State University including head coach Joe Paterno were aware of the
investigation into Sandusky’s escapades in 1998. This led Penn State to
essentially force Sandusky into retirement but was still awarded with “"both
an unusual compensation package and a special designation of 'emeritus' rank
that carried special privileges, including access to the university’s
recreational facilities."[4] Sandusky
had an office on campus, his face on a mural, his autobiography “Touched: The
Jerry Sandusky Story” in the schools book store, and keys to access the same
locker rooms and showers where he was eventually convicted of raping children
until the whole story blew wide open in 2011.
The
question that must be asked is obvious and unfortunately to this day remains
shrouded in layers of an immense cover-up. The question is how did Jerry
Sandusky get away with these crimes for such a prolonged period of time? Well,
Joe Paterno’s dead; Graham Spanier who was the President of Penn State was not
indicted and actually landed a comfy job as an advisor for a top-secret project
for the U.S. Government relating to national security; according to his lawyer.[5] So
really any conclusion we might be able to come up with would be speculation.
However, what is not speculation is pointing out connections between Sandusky
and some very powerful people.
In
1988, Jerry Sandusky gave a nominating speech for George H. W. Bush at the
Republican National Convention. At that same Convention there was a man named
Lawrence E. King who sang the National Anthem. Lawrence King in a few short
months would find himself as the key figure in a Congressional Investigation
led by Senator John DeCamp concerning King’s laundering of money as the General
Manager of a Credit Union in Omaha, Nebraska.[6]
DeCamp quickly found that the money was just the tip of the iceberg concerning
King’s escapades; when DeCamp dug into it he found King was connected to a town
called Boy’s Town and all of the sudden had multiple children coming to him
saying they had been taken by King to Washington D.C. multiple times and had
taken midnight “tours” of the White House and were involved in depraved sex
parties among other horrific things.[7] It
just so happens the Washington Times reported on the front page of their June
29th, 1989 newspaper that there was evidence of a homosexual
prostitution ring which was being given late night access to the White House.[8]
The
next year Lawrence King was sent to prison, for money laundering; and President
George H. W. Bush was publicly praising The Second Mile as a “shining example
of charitable work.” In 2001, after Sandusky’s retirement he wrote his
autobiography; in the book he specifically addressed the recognition from
George H. W. Bush by saying “It’s about time George! This is long overdue.” [9]
After Sandusky had finally been brought to justice in 2011, his Second Mile
Foundation transferred all of their $2.6 million in assets to an organization
called the Arrow Child & Family Ministries in Spring, Texas. At the time of
this assets transfer; two of the directors for the Arrow Child & Family
Ministries were Maria Bush the daughter-in-law of George H. W. Bush, and Susie
Peake who had worked for George H. W. Bush in various capacities for over 10
years.[10]
Another
very strange thing to point out is that the District Attorney in Centre County,
Pennsylvania (which oversees the Happy Valley area) who would have been the
person in charge of bringing Jerry Sandusky to justice, Ray Gicar, just
happened to go missing without a trace on April 15th, 2005. Months
later on August 2nd, 2005 Gicar’s county issued laptop was found by
fishermen in the Susquehanna River; the laptop was conspicuously missing its
hard drive.[11]
Gicar was pronounced legally dead July 25th, 2011 just a few months
before the Sandusky story was finally disclosed to the public after literally
decades of cover-up and lies. Undoubtedly, there is much more to know about the
whole situation that was blamed on Sandusky and made to look like one rotten
apple instead of exposing the whole rotten bunch.
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