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There is no perspective; it's big business now. I'm beginning to agree that much of the focus should be taken off college football and placed back into academics.
The worst part of the Penn State thing is that hadn't won a national title since 1986 and hadn't gone undefeated since 1994 maintained its market share on the strength of Joe Paterno's saintly reputation. Kids signed up to Penn State, because, and this truly wants me to throw up, was because Joe Paterno and Penn state really, reeealy cared about the kids it recruited. And while it may have been a wonderful place for those who played it is clear not the amount of care that kids who weren't on the squad got.
right in Philadelphia. Maybe he can be in a cell with Sandusky.
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By assigning pedophile priests to unsuspecting parishes, prosecutors said, Lynn exposed more children to potential abuse while putting the church's interests ahead of protecting children. Prosecutors produced a list that Lynn compiled in 1994 naming 37 priests in the archdiocese who had been identified as pedophiles or were suspected of sexually abusing children.
Lynn, 61, faces up to seven years in prison on the endangerment conviction. He was denied bail and will remain in custody while awaiting a sentencing hearing Aug. 13.
Friday's verdicts came on the 13th day of jury deliberations in the two-month trial in Philadelphia's Common Pleas court.
The trial was noteworthy because Lynn was not accused of sexual misconduct, but of covering it up. More than a dozen witnesses testified that they were sexually abused by priests who had been allowed to serve in their parishes even after being suspected or accused of abuse.
One witness described how, as an eighth-grader, he had been sent by his mother to a priest for counseling after being raped by a family friend. The priest raped him too, he testified.
"I can't explain the pain because I'm still trying to figure it out, but I have an emptiness where my soul should be," the witness said.
A nun testified that she and two female relatives were sexually abused by a priest who was described by a church official as "one of the sickest people I ever knew."
A former seminary student testified that he had been repeatedly raped during his high school years by a priest inside the priest's home.
Two witnesses described being abused by one priest, Edward Avery, when they were boys. Another testified that Brennan attempted to rape him at age 14.
Who would've imagined? A football coach who didn't care for anything--up to and including the university for which he worked--besides his football team.
One or all of the rape victims should show up at the statue with a cutting torch or sawzall. I would love to see Penn State sic the jack booted thugs on him when he tries to cut the thing down. That would be the PR move of the century.
Well it's not the religion, it's the people. Unfortunately, this Penn State shows that most people's outrage against the crime and the criminal, are only selectively applied. The Church scandal was many, many, many times more widespread and pervasive than this. Just as ugly, only larger. But the very same principles were violated, and the cover-ups as well.
It's selective character, it only appears when someone or some thing they don't like is attacked, they they pile on. I don't think any responsible human being can have a different position on the two scandals.
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With hardly anyone following this
