Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Sexual Abuse

Unforgivable!






BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was sentenced Tuesday to at least 30 years in prison - effectively a life sentence - in the child sexual abuse scandal that brought shame to Penn State and led to coach Joe Paterno's downfall.



A defiant Sandusky gave a rambling statement in which he denied the allegations and talked about his life in prison and the pain of being away from his family.



Three victims spoke, often fighting back tears. One looked Sandusky in the eyes at times.



The 68-year-old former Penn State assistant coach was found guilty in June of 45 counts of child sexual abuse, convicted of molesting 10 boys over a 15-year period. Witnesses said Sandusky used the charitable organization he founded for troubled children as his personal hunting ground to find and groom boys to become his victims.



His arrest 11 months ago, and the details that came out during his trial over the summer, transformed Sandusky's public image from a college coach who had been widely admired for his work with The Second Mile charity into that of a reviled pervert who preyed on the very youngsters who sought his help.



Eight of the boys he was found guilty of molesting testified at his trial, describing a range of abuse that included fondling, oral sex and anal intercourse. One of the prosecution's star witnesses, former graduate assistant Mike McQueary, testified that he saw Sandusky raping a boy in a locker room shower.



Among the three who spoke Tuesday, a young man who said he was 11 when Sandusky groped him in a shower in 1998. He said Sandusky is in denial and should ''stop coming up with excuses.''



''I've been left with deep painful wounds that you caused and had been buried in the garden of my heart for many years,'' he said.



Another man said he was 13 when, in 2001, Sandusky lured him into a Penn State sauna and then a shower and then forced him to touch the ex-coach.



''I am troubled with flashbacks of his naked body, something that will never be erased from my memory,'' he said. ''Jerry has harmed children, of which I am one of them.''



Sandusky has consistently maintained his innocence and plans to appeal. One element of the appeal is expected to be a claim that the defense did not have time to adequately prepare for trial. Sandusky was charged in November, following a lengthy investigation.



In a three-minute monologue aired Monday night by Penn State Com Radio that used some of the same language as his courtroom statement, Sandusky said he knows in his heart that he did not do what he called ''these alleged disgusting acts'' and described himself as the victim of a coordinated conspiracy among Penn State, investigators, civil attorneys, the media and others.



His statement in court lasted 15 minutes and his voice cracked as he spoke of missing his loved ones.



Judge John Cleland sentenced him to 30 to 60 years in prison. Under Pennsylvania law, Sandusky cannot be released on parole before the minimum term is up.



''The tragedy of this crime is that it's a story of betrayal. The most obvious aspect is your betrayal of 10 children,'' Cleland told Sandusky. ''I'm not going to sentence you to centuries in prison, although the law will permit that.'' Still, Cleland said, he expected Sandusky to die in prison.



Before sentencing, Cleland designated Sandusky as a sexually violent predator under the state's Megan's Law. The label essentially has no effect on Sandusky, since its requirement is lifetime registration after a convict is released from prison.



In sentencing the ex-coach, Cleland called Sandusky dangerous, saying, ''You abused the trust of those who trusted you.''



The scandal brought devastation in State College that will take years to fully assess, as Sandusky's victims are pressing civil claims and a January trial is pending for Gary Schultz and Tim Curley, two university administrators charged with failing to properly report suspicions about Sandusky and lying to the grand jury that investigated him.



Soon after the three were arrested in November, the board of trustees fired Paterno, the school's most famous figure and a man who won two national college football championships in the 1980s. Paterno died of lung cancer in January.



Over the summer, an investigation commissioned by the university and led by former FBI Director Louis Freeh concluded that Paterno and other top officials covered up allegations against Sandusky for years to avoid bad publicity.



The scandal also toppled university President Graham Spanier and led to crippling NCAA sanctions against the football team that included a $60 million fine, a ban on postseason play and a reduction in the number of football scholarships the school can award. The NCAA also erased 14 years of victories for Paterno, stripping him of his standing as major college football's winningest coach.



At least four young men have sued Penn State over the way the university responded to disturbing complaints about Sandusky.



Eight legal teams representing at least 20 young men have surfaced, and the school recently announced an effort to settle as many claims as possible by the end of the year.



Penn State President Rodney Erickson released a statement shortly after the sentence was handed down.



''Our thoughts today, as they have been for the last year, go out to the victims of Jerry Sandusky's abuse,'' Erickson said. ''While today's sentence cannot erase what has happened, hopefully it will provide comfort to those affected by these horrible events.''



The third victim who spoke had testified that he was raped over the course of years by Sandusky, including on team trips to bowl games in Texas and Florida.



''I want you to know I don't forgive you and I don't know if I will ever forgive you,'' he said. ''My only regret is that I didn't come forward sooner.''



30 - 60 years! Is that all? I don't care how old he is, he should have gotten more time than that! I have kids, and I pray to God that something of that nature never happens ( they are grown now, so I'm sort of 'out of the woods' on that one ). But folks, that's why as a parent you keep your eyes on your kids like a hawk. You talk 'openly' with them about everything. You have got to get to KNOW your kids. That's how you can tell when something is 'wrong' with them, before they open up and tell you. That monster deserves a lot more time for what he did. And, he still insists that he is innocent. Throw the book at someone like that. But that's ok. The prisoners are following the developments of this case, too ( they've got tv in prison ). I will bet he will get a rousing welcome. But those are just my thoughts. What's yours?



excerpted from the Associated Press

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Just A Little Bit About Life Itself

A Changing World




Oh but how the world has changed

It ain’t at all how it used to be.

Coming out of high school you had several options

One of them was going into the military.

Having been there done that currently

A military stint I wouldn’t recommend.

Dealing with the misjudgments of the powers-that-be

Your butt to the Middle East they’ll certainly send.

It’s one thing to fight the war on terrorism

And to me Syria was the biggest threat.

Jumping on Iraq with insufficient evidence

There’s more to this story you can certainly bet.

Times like these call for strong leaders

Not leaders who ‘talk strong’.

Our troops are worlds away in the midst of chaos

And our leaders won’t admit to this being wrong.

I remember the days of President Reagan

And Iran releasing hostages by the time he said ‘I do’.

Times like these call for tough leaders like him

He’d knock ‘em out no matter who.

We’ll just have to say a prayer for the troops

And hope that they all safely return.

We won’t forget they put their lives on the line

And in doing so our respect they all have earned.



10-12-06

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Things That Make You Go Hmmmm....

FDA Accused of Mass Homicide of 1 Million Americans Each Decade


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(NaturalNews) The biggest threat to America today is not terrorists or global warming, but the mass genocide of Americans who die every year at the hands of the corrupt U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In a recent report, investigative reporter Jon Rappoport uncovers the dirty truth that FDA-approved drugs kill at least 100,000 people every single year -- the FDA actually lists this figure on its own website -- and the agency is doing absolutely nothing about this disastrous trend.



On a webpage entitled Why Learn about Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR)?, the FDA admits that 100,000 people die every single year as a result of taking FDA-approved pharmaceutical drugs. Citing figures from three different published studies, the figures also reveal that two million people a year suffer from serious ADRs, which include things like stroke, heart attack, and permanent neurological damage.



You can view the FDA page for yourself here:

http://www.fda.gov



Since these figures come from studies dating back to at least 1998, it is clear that the FDA is fully aware of the extensive harm being caused by supposedly "safe" drugs. And since it has done nothing to address the problem, the agency is complicit in willfully harming and murdering tens of millions of Americans throughout just the past several decades, which makes it one of the most murderous government regimes in history.



Based on the figures presented by the FDA, at least 30 million people have suffered serious injury or death as a result of taking FDA-approved drugs just since 1998 when the first cited study was published. If you go back several more decades, it is clear that potentially hundreds of millions of people have been directly harmed by the FDA's "negligent homicide."



"It is time for these murderous government crimes to end," writes Rappoport in his report. "It is time for all responsible parties to be brought to justice, to real justice. It is time for the public to realize that 100,000 people dying every year in the U.S., because they take medical drugs, is the equivalent of 33 airliner crashes into the Twin Towers, every year, year after year."


Rodale

Why the FDA and its drug lords are the real terrorists

Since the FDA is the official gatekeeper of pharmaceutical drugs, it is directly responsible for the harm they cause. And yet agency officials have never, in any meaningful way, been held responsible for their crimes against humanity. And the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), as Rappoport points out, has failed to step in and pursue those responsible for peddling poison as medicine.



If al-Qaeda operatives were caught dispensing toxic chemicals disguised as medicine to innocent civilians, they would be sent off to Guantanamo Bay without trial, and locked away indefinitely. But when the FDA does the very same thing on a much more massive scale, nobody bats an eye. And yet the number of people that the FDA has killed with its drugs is far more than the number killed during 9/11 or the Oklahoma City bombing.



The organized crime ring that is the federal government today is the real terrorist threat that we all face on a daily basis. And until the American people collectively wake up to this reality, we will continue to watch our friends, our families, and our children, which are the casualties of this ongoing terrorist attack, lay waste at the hands of Big Pharma and the FDA.


Denise Austin - Get Fit, Tight and Toned!
Sources for this article include:



http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com



http://www.naturalnews.com/030461_Senate_Bill_510_Food_Safety.html



Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035936_FDA_homicide_victims.html#ixzz20LZ91i8Y



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