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Corruption: It’s not just Penn State

Jerry Sandusky had an all-access pass to boys, it appears.: The grand jury report lays out a scenario in which Sandusky was able to summon Victim One from class, and no one said no because Sandusky assisted the high school with coaching varsity football and could come and go there as he pleased. That access […]

Jerry Sandusky had an all-access pass to boys, it appears.:

The grand jury report lays out a scenario in which Sandusky was able to summon Victim One from class, and no one said no because Sandusky assisted the high school with coaching varsity football and could come and go there as he pleased.

That access didn’t change, even when a wrestling coach discovered Sandusky and Victim One lying face to face in an unused part of the high school gym one evening, the report said.

“I didn’t even know he was leaving the school with my child,” the mother said. “I didn’t know he was taking him out of classes. They never told me that.”

Victim One’s mother told the Patriot-News that officials at Central Mountain High School urged her to think twice about how she wanted to handle the situation, “how that would impact my son,” she said.

She didn’t think twice – she went immediately to the county’s children and youth services agency and reported the situation. By that time, her son had been spending nights and weekends at Sandusky’s home for more than a year.

This bears further investigation. If it can be proven that the coaches at that high school had reason to believe Jerry Sandusky was preying on boys there, but they turned a blind eye because they didn’t want to lose the services and the prestige of a great former Penn State coach, they should be charged, or at least have that family’s lawyer tighten the civil suit screw on their privates until their eyeballs pop out.

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