Joe Paterno to resign at end of season

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Originally Posted by classicman

You are drifting into your Catholic rant there big guy.

Pedophilia is the topic. Penn State is simply one example. It is not a rant to suggest the Catholic Church acts (acted) like a mafia for pedophiles. Extremely relevant is what the Boy Scouts did long ago to avert these problems. Penn State only suggests a larger problem that includes many 'powers that be' who ignored it. This is not about Penn State. This is about the real problem. Why pedophilia is ongoing, apparently more widespread that we knew, and happens without prosecution. Pedophilia in another 'lily white' institution? (For those overseas, the Penn State program was considered a cleanest and most honest in sports.) How can this be?

Ironically to this thread, Joe Paterno is only a sidebar. Something in Chapter one to get your attention. This story keeps getting bigger including another Chapter: the NBC interview.

I see no difference between what Lynn Abraham did in Philadelphia, what the Catholic Church routinely did in Ireland, and what has happened in Penn State.

How many pedophiles are hiding out in Notre Dame? Once we would have never considered that possibility. Today, it might be possible. Too many loose ends are being exposed. If accusations are true, even the PA State Police were complicit in a cover up. So why did that DA disappear or die?

Do these scandals have an enemies list? Can anyone get on it?

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FWIW, this morning the (former ?) DA from New Jersey (?) was on TV.
OK, I don't know who he was,,,

But he gave some great advise to abused children, parents and organizations...

First, he gave a recommendation to "Darkness to Light"

This is an organization to end child sexual abuse.
For example they have specific plans and steps to follow:
Step 5: Make a Plan Learn Where to Go, Whom to Call, and How to React

Then he talked about a policy for parents and organizations to adopt:

Parents: Do not allow or else closely monitor all "one-to-one" adult-to-child situations.

Organizations: Policy Regarding One-Adult/One-Child

Clear guidelines should be established for one-adult/one-child situations.
Many organizations strictly prohibit one-on-one time under any circumstances.
However, for organizations that address the needs of children and adolescents,
one-on-one mentoring/tutoring/support is often considered important to a child’s development.
If this is the case for an organization, very specific guidelines
about such one-on-one time should be clearly articulated.

Risk Assessment

High and low risk situations in your organization should be clearly defined.
For example, a situation where one teacher is with a group of children
in an open classroom where other adults are walking in and out would be considered low risk.
A situation where an adult is alone with a child,
driving from one activity to another, would be high risk.

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This probably does not warrant posting, but what the...

DAILY NEWS
Teri Thompson , Michael O'keeffe & Kevin Armstrong
November 15 2011, 1:59 PM

Jerry Sandusky’s lawyer, Joe Amendola,
got a 16-year-old client pregnant and later married her

Girl was seeking emancipation from her parents in 1996

Joe Amendola, the State College, Pa., attorney representing
accused child molester Jerry Sandusky, has an interesting back story himself:
He got a teen-age client pregnant during the mid-1990s.
Amendola, 63, married the girl several years after the birth of their child,
The Daily reported Monday night, citing documents filed at the Centre County, Pa., courthouse.

Amendola represented a 16-year-old girl then known as Mary Iavasile
when she filed an emancipation petition in September 1996.
The emancipation petition said the girl had graduated from high school
in two years with a 3.69 GPA and held a fulltime job at Amendola's law office.
The girl gave birth to Amendola's child when she was 17 years old,
her mother, Janet Iavasile, said.
Amendola would have been about 49 years old at the time.

The age of consent in Pennsylvania is 16.
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Sandusky is not the only member of the Penn State football community
who was represented by Amendola after being accused of a sexual crime.

Amendola also represented Nittany Lions tailback, Austin Scott
after another student accused Scott of rape in 2007.
Centre County prosecutors dropped the case on the eve of trial in 2008
when a judge said the jury could be told that the alleged victim
had accused another man of a similar crime four years earlier.
The man in the earlier case was acquitted.