In the immortal words of Yogi Berra, "It's deja vu, all over again."
Confronted with allegations of criminal activity on the part of its own leaders, a revered institution looks the other way, circles the wagons, maintains its silence -- and lets the crime continue. In one case, it was religion. Today, it's college football.
America is shocked by the news out of Penn State, and rightfully so. At the heart of its phenomenally successful college football program were a group of men who betrayed the trust placed in them by students and parents. One was an apparent serial sexual abuser of underage boys. The rest were his enablers.
It's hard to imagine more disgusting behavior than what we've learned about defensive line coach Jerry Sandusky, charged with sexually assaulting at least eight boys. In 1977, Sandusky founded a nonprofit organization, "The Second Mile," to assist under-privileged boys -- apparently, just so he could gain their confidence and take advantage of his access to them to abuse them sexually. But he would never have gotten away with it for so long without the help of his superiors. Full story...
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Confronted with allegations of criminal activity on the part of its own leaders, a revered institution looks the other way, circles the wagons, maintains its silence -- and lets the crime continue. In one case, it was religion. Today, it's college football.
America is shocked by the news out of Penn State, and rightfully so. At the heart of its phenomenally successful college football program were a group of men who betrayed the trust placed in them by students and parents. One was an apparent serial sexual abuser of underage boys. The rest were his enablers.
It's hard to imagine more disgusting behavior than what we've learned about defensive line coach Jerry Sandusky, charged with sexually assaulting at least eight boys. In 1977, Sandusky founded a nonprofit organization, "The Second Mile," to assist under-privileged boys -- apparently, just so he could gain their confidence and take advantage of his access to them to abuse them sexually. But he would never have gotten away with it for so long without the help of his superiors. Full story...
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