PA Judge Denies Penn State Scandal-er Jerry Sandusky Appeal

 PA Judge Denies Penn State Scandal-er Jerry Sandusky Appeal

Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky's child molestation conviction will not be reviewed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, under an order issued last Wednesday.

Sandusky asked the court to take up his 45-count conviction, arguing his lawyers were rushed too quickly to trial in 2012 and that prosecutors improperly made reference to his decision not to testify.

He also said the trial judge should have issued a jury instruction about how long it took his victims to report the abuse and that jurors should not have been told to weigh evidence of his good character against all other evidence.

The state attorney general's office had countered that Sandusky did not provide sufficient basis for the Supreme Court to take up the matter, and that decisions made by the trial judge did not violate his rights.

Source

Read More

Jerry Sandusky Wants to See His Grandchildren, says Wife

 

In an interview with the Today Show, convicted child predator and and former Penn State Coach wants to see his grandchildren, so his wife says. She says he told her he misses them. Well, we are sure he does. No, we can't believe it ourselves but these crazy criminals who have ruined the lives of others ...



Read more at:

Convicted Child Predator Sandusky Wants to See His Grandchildren, says Wife | AT2W

Read More

Penn State Will Pay Victims $59 Million in Sandusky Sex Scandal

Scandalized Penn State is finally paying up for allowing so many victims to be in the presence of a predator they knew about!...The school said Monday they will pay $59.7 million to 26 young men over claims of child sexual abuse at the hands of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky...

Read more at:

Demoralized Penn State Will Pay Victims $59 Million in Sandusky Sex Scandal | AT2W

Read More

Former Penn State Officials Head to Court

The Penn State sex scandal is in the news again. The former president and to top officials will be tried in court for their part in covering up the child molestation in the school. The charges are accusing them of covering up their failure to tell police about a 2001 allegation that Sandusky molested a boy in a university locker room shower, says Fox News.

Read more at:

Former Penn State Officials Head to Court for Their Part in ‘Silent Conspiracy’ | AT2W

Read More

Florida Passes New Strict Laws on Reporting Abuse or Pay $1 Million

Florida Passes New Strict Laws on Reporting Abuse or Be Fine $1 Million

Is it too little, too late for this now!! The Penn State scandal helped shape a new Florida sexual abuse reporting law that has been called the toughest in the nation, holding universities and individuals financially and criminally liable for failure to report suspected abuse.

Under the law, which went into effect Oct. 1, colleges and universities that "knowingly and willfully" fail to report known or suspected child abuse or prevent another person from doing so will be slapped with a $1 million fine for each failure.

"We learned is we didn't want to take a chance on [them]," said Ron Book, president of Lauren's Kids, a nonprofit that helped spearhead the legislation.

"Applying Penn State to the old Florida law, would Mike McQueary had to report what he saw?" Book said, referring to the former Penn State assistant coach who witnessed Sandusky raping a boy in the school's showers.

"The answer was he would not have."

Previously, a person who called the state abuse hotline to report a suspected incident involving a child would have been asked to call law enforcement if the suspected predator was not a care taker or parent of the child, Book said.

"What we've learned is it's hard enough to get a victim or observer to call once," he said.
Under the new law, witnesses, like McQueary, or people who suspect abuse, are required to call a centralized hotline run by the Florida Department of Children and Families or face third-degree felony charges and a $5,000 fine.

The Florida Department of Children and Families reported a 25 percent increase in calls since the law went into effect on Oct. 1.

We always wonder why it takes a major case and the abuse of so many victims to make changes in laws? It seems to never matters until it's an embarrassment on America. Absolutely too little to late!

Source

Read More

Penn State May Lose Academic Accreditation Over Mishandling of Sandusky Sex Scandal

Penn State May Lose Academic Accreditation Over Mishandling of Sandusky Sex Scandal

Penn State has been warned by  Middle States Commission, the organization that grants them academic accreditation, that it is in danger of losing is crucial status. The university made the announcement this week. This, of course, is in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

While investigators found Penn State school leaders did too little stop the abuse, they are in jeopardy of losing what keeps students funded in school.  If this were to happen, the school would face the loss of eligibility for federal student aid programs, guaranteed student loans, federal research grants and could lose eligibility for state aid, commission spokesman Richard Pockrass said.

Read more of the report HERE

Read More