How could there be this many accusers and it not be true? This story is far more complex and the burden of proof is much, much higher. We take you on a journey that begins day one through the first-person account of John Ziegler, a man who has lived it every day for nearly a decade. Ziegler and his family have endured much pain and ridicule throughout his quest for answers. He steadfastly refuses to go along to get along and refuses to accept his role as anything other than truth seeker.
This approach can threaten people with things to hide and his persistence has cost him his career. Do you believe that Sandusky was falsely convicted and imprisoned? This will sound as crazy to you as it did to me the first time I heard it but Jerry Sandusky never abused any child and Joe Paterno and the Penn State administrators never covered up any crimes.
The entire case is an egregiously frightening example of what can happen when we are stripped of our due process rights. Journalism has been reduced to polar narratives and the media are required to shape stories to conform to the narrative pole of their affiliated outlet. The Penn State scandal was one of the first major stories contorted to fit this new paradigm.
The media instantly went for the clicks generated from a juicy narrative. The waters of public opinion were polluted by a relentless media onslaught and a moral panic ensued that capsized and drowned the truth. Tell us more please how the media treat the story. The media drove the message and the messaging created a moral panic. Today, whether you work for a legacy newspaper, an online publisher, a TV network, cable news channel or most any source of news content your job is to deliver ratings because ratings equal revenue.
The more listens, views, downloads, streams, clicks, shares, likes, re-tweets etc. Refresh us — why did Sandusky retire as Defensive Coordinator at a relatively young age, 55?
Jerry Sandusky founded the Second Mile in as a tribute to his father, Art. Paterno believed Sandusky spent too much time with The Second Mile and not enough on his coaching responsibilities. Any complaints? From through late police questioned over former Second Mile kids about their interactions with Sandusky. Not a single Second Miler claimed anything inappropriate had ever occurred.
Investigators became increasingly frustrated as hundreds of men recalled their younger days in The Second Mile fondly and Jerry as a caring and devoted man who had made a difference in their lives.
Mike McQueary was the only eyewitness to an incident involving Sandusky. The attorney general told us in the presentment that McQueary witnessed Jerry Sandusky having anal sex with a 10 year-old boy in a Penn State shower.
He told five different people at the time what he had seen. Those people were his father John McQueary, family friend Dr. Each and every one of these people, including his own father, testified that Mike did not tell them he witnessed sexual abuse or a sexual act!
He told five people at the time and each, including his own father, confirmed that he did not claim to have witnessed a sexual act. Corbett, then the state attorney general, oversaw the start of the investigation after the ex-coach was barred from a high school in when a mother complained about Sandusky.
Charges were filed in November. She said prosecutors supported that decision because Sandusky was on house arrest while awaiting trial. At the time, Gov. Tom Corbett was the state attorney general.
Charges were filed in November Investigators took into account Sandusky's status as a celebrated assistant coach in building the case, Corbett said Monday when asked in Harrisburg why charges weren't filed after the first accuser came forward. They started pulling strings and gathering and gathering and gathering, and that's my experience.
You build those cases, as well as you can. Corbett said that while he worried that Sandusky might find a new victim while the investigation continued, "I believed [Sandusky] had to know we were looking at him at some point in time. In a sense, if you know that they're looking at you, you kind of back away. But it was a calculated risk, not one that you really easily want to take. Sandusky has repeatedly maintained his innocence. He will likely die in prison, given mandatory minimum sentencing requirements.
The conviction is just the start of possibly years of legal proceedings over the case. Besides appeals, there remains an active investigation into Sandusky by the state attorney general's office, as well as a federal investigation.
Corbett said Penn State trustees are still awaiting the results of an internal investigation by former FBI director Louis Freeh into the school's handling of the Sandusky case. The university could also face a wave of new lawsuits. An hour after the verdict Friday night, Penn State said in a statement it was inviting victims to "participate in a program to facilitate the resolution of claims against the university arising out of Mr.
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