The onion continues to be peeled back when it comes to just how big of a dangerously ignorant scumbag Joe Paterno actually was.
In newly unsealed court documents from a 2014 testimony reveals that the former Penn State head coach may have known Jerry Sandusky was actively abusing children on Penn State grounds as early as 1976. However Paterno couldn’t be bothered with such claims because he ‘had a football season to worry about’. Priorities right?
Penn State vs. PMA: Exhibit L by PennLive on Scribd
Identified as John Doe 150 in the court documents, the victim states that back in 76′ when he was 14-years old, he showered with Sandusky at a Penn State football camp. Additionally while showering with Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant proceeded to penetrate the boy’s rectum with his finger. And if this story couldn’t be get any more disgusting and sad, when John Doe 150 reported the incident to Paterno the still famed head coach simply said he ‘didn’t want to hear about any of that kind of stuff’ and that he (Paterno) had a ‘football season to worry about’ writes Will Hobson and Cindy Boren of the Washington Post.
“Is it accurate that Coach Paterno quickly said to you, ‘I don’t want to hear about any of that kind of stuff, I have a football season to worry about?’” the man’s lawyer asked him in 2014.
“Specifically. Yes … I was shocked, disappointed, offended. I was insulted… I said, is that all you’re going to do? You’re not going to do anything else?”
Paterno, the man testified, just walked away.
But these latest unsealed testimonies don’t stop at Paterno potentially ignoring sexually abused children in 1976. The Washington Post further notes other claims of Penn State head coaches knowing of the child sex abuse happening at Penn State and doing nothing about it.
- Penn State football assistant coaches witnessed “inappropriate contact” and “sexual contact” between Sandusky and a child in 1987 and 1988.
- A man identified as John Doe 75 testified that when he was 13-years old in 1987 a Penn State assistant coach witnessed Sandusky with his hand down the boys shorts. In typical Penn State assistant coach fashion nothing was done and the door was literally closed behind him after witnessing the disgusting act. That Penn State assistant coach was identified as Joe Sarra who, like Paterno died in 2012.
- John Doe 101 testified that Sandusky’s actions with young boys was well-known throughout the Penn State football program.
- John Doe 101 also testified that in 1988 Penn State assistant Kevin O’Dea witnessed Sandusky rubbing the back of a boy laying on a leather coach in just his underwear. 101 said that O’Dea did nothing to address what he saw.
- Additionally, John Doe 101 also testified saying it was well-known within the Penn State coaching faction that boys would stay in Sandusky’s room on the night prior to Penn State home games. These coaches, including Paterno would also witness Sandusky participating in ‘horseplay’ in the Penn State showers while he also lathered them up in soap.“Would any of the other coaches bring young men back … and shower with them?,” his lawyer asked.“Some of the coaches’ sons would come in and work out,” Doe 101 said. “But I don’t believe I ever saw any, just, coaches bringing random children in and showering with them.”
However don’t think it stops there. In these same unsealed court testimonies, former Penn State assistant Mike McQueary who was a key figure earlier on the investigation testified that former Nittany Lions defensive coordinator and now UCLA assistant Tom Bradley was ‘not shocked’ when McQueary told him about witnessing Sandusky molesting a young boy. In fact it sounded like Bradley had some experience when it came to hearing about Sandusky’s gross encounters with children as McQueary further stated that Bradley informed him that former PSU assistant and current Ohio State defensive coordinator Greg Schiano came to him with a similar claim back in the 1980s.
According to McQueary, Schiano told Bradley that he had seen Sandusky “doing something with a boy in the shower.” McQueary recalls that this conversation with Bradley happened around 2005 or 2006. Schiano was an assistant at Penn State from 1990 to 1995 and later became the head coach of Rutgers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Bradley was at Penn State from 1979 to 2011, becoming interim head coach after Joe Paterno stepped down.
Of course this does nothing to persistent Joe Paterno apologists like John Ziegler who like the former head coach like to deny, re-direct and victim blame.
When I refer 2 bogus PSU settlement process I know what I'm talking about. A purposely fake accuser went through the system. There are tapes
— John Ziegler (@Zigmanfreud) July 12, 2016
Don’t worry everyone… this clown know’s what he’s talking about so the countless number of testimonies should simply be ignored. Not mention I’m sure somewhere in State College Franco Harris is getting his next petition together to get that University to put back up the statue of Joe Paterno.
Anyways, to use Tom Bradley’s own words, I’m ‘not shocked’ by these latest damning testimonies of Penn State’s gross negligence when it came to protecting children on their own campus and from their own coach.
Or what about the NCAA who ultimately gave Penn State a slap on the wrist claiming that they overstepped their boundaries on punishment when what happened with Sandusky had nothing to do with football. Letting Sandusky continue to get away with destroying the lives of kids is okay with Paterno because he’s ‘got a football season to worry about’ has everything to do with football and protecting the brand of Penn State.
I can go on all day about this but I’ve made my points and feelings regarding what happened and didn’t happen at Penn State very clear in the past. I’ll just say that I’m sure this isn’t the end of new information.