Joe Paterno Knew Jerry Sandusky was an Evil Molester as Early as 1976
Jerry Sandusky (left) with Joe Paterno
According to the latest disgusting report in the ongoing horror show that is Jerry Sandusky’s child sex abuse scandal, the late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was likely his assistant was molesting children as early as 1976—a full 25 years earlier than he had been previously suspected of knowing.
Sandusky, who was a coach at Penn State for over 30 years, was convicted of the serial sexual abuse of 10 different boys in 2012. The victims came to know their abuser through involvement in his youth charity, Second Mile.
Four years later two of the biggest questions that remain in the case involve Paterno. Specifically, what did he know and when did he know it? Naturally, his family and loyal supporters have long rejected any suggestion of complacency on the part of Paterno.
Despite their vehement denials, the investigation into Sandusky revealed that Paterno’s plausible deniability evaporated in 2001. It was at that point that graduate assistant coach Mike McQueary came to him after personally witnessing an incident of sexual assault between Sandusky and one of his victims on the PSU campus.
Plausible deniability aside, a great many familiar with the details of the case against Sandusky have long found the idea that he could have operated undetected by Paterno for three decades a dubious claim at best. That skepticism seems to have been well founded, based on the new “bombshell†revelation.
“It came in the form of a single line in a court order on related insurance coverage case involving Penn State, and its full ramifications can’t immediately be gauged.
But that line was eye-popping in itself.
The line in question states that one of Penn State’s insurers claimed ‘in 1976, a child allegedly reported to PSU’s Head Coach Joseph Paterno that he (the child) was sexually molested by Sandusky.’
The order also cites separate references in 1987 and 1988 in which unnamed assistant coaches witnessed inappropriate contact between Sandusky and unidentified children, and a 1988 case that was supposedly referred to Penn State’s athletic director at the time.â€
The allegations have come to light as part of an ongoing insurance case, currently still pending. By attempting to establish Paterno and the athletic department as the end of the chain of command in this matter, the university is hoping to recoup much of the $60 million it paid out to nearly 30 victims in a civil suit.
The family’s attorney has already issued a fresh denial, once again choosing to prop up the myth of Joe Paterno, rather than accept the harsh reality that he enabled child rape for decades in order to avoid scandal in the short-term.
