Jerry Sandusky Sexual Abused Occurred also at his Home } He Adopted 5 Boys } Where Was The Wife?

 

• Dorothy Sandusky called Victim 7 before he gave evidence despite him cutting contact with former football coach two years prior
• She was major part of Sandusky's life since meeting in 1960s and assisted with his 'Second Mile' charity from which he 'selected his boys'
• Couple adopted five sons and one girl, who are now all adults
• Abuse allegedly occurred over a number of years in family home

By LAURIE WHITWELL

Did she know? Dorothy Sandusky has been married to alleged child rapist Jerry Sandusky since the 1960s and the indictment says abuse took place in their home

Jerry Sandusky’s wife has been largely absent from the analysis of who knew what about her husband’s alleged sexual abuse of eight boys over a 15-year period.

But Dorothy 'Dottie' Gross Sandusky does make an appearance in the 23-page Grand Jury indictment which graphically details the charges against the 67-year-old former Penn State coach.

Mrs Sandusky, 68, attempted to call one of the victims in the weeks leading up to his testimony, despite the fact the now 26-year-old had cut off all contact with Sandusky two years prior.

She left a message on Victim 7's phone saying the matter was 'very important' but the man, who told the Grand Jury that as a ten-year-old in 1994, Sandusky hugged and inappropriately touched him, did not return the call.

Part of that alleged abuse took place in the Sandusky family’s State College, Pennsylvania, home, in which Dorothy and her husband raised their six adopted children. Sandusky claimed he and his wife could not have any of their own.

Over the years the couple became the parents to Ray, now 46, a businessman living in Nashville, EJ, 41, former Nittany Lions player, and now a football coach at West Chester University, Kara, 38, a Penn State graduate, Jeff, 35, a former Marine, and 33-year-olds Matt, a Penn State graduate and Jon, who is Director of Player Personnel for the Cleveland Browns.

Quite how much any of them knew about the sexual abuse, which occurred between 1994 and 2009 with a number of incidents at the family home, is now under scrutiny.

The former Penn State defensive coordinator and his lawyer, Joe Amendola, have maintained that Sandusky is innocent and publicly denied all allegations. Neither Dorothy Sandusky nor any of her adopted children have yet made a statement on the scandal.

Handcuffed: Eight young men have been identified as the targets of sexual advances or assaults by Sandusky from 1994 to 2009, prosecutors said

Idyllic: Authorities say Jerry Sandusky's home in State College, Pennsylvania, was one of the places he sexually abused several boy

Jerry Sandusky's book Touched, which was released in 2001

The Grand Jury indictment states that Sandusky selected his young victims from the 'Second Mile', a charity he started in 1977 devoted to helping troubled boys in the State College area. Mrs Sandusky helped out with the running of the programme.

'After we had taken in some foster children, we saw the opportunities that some kids just hadn't had,' Mrs Sandusky told Sports Illustrated in 1982. 'But we'd gotten to the point where we couldn't take in anymore, so Jerry started thinking about starting a group home.'

In his 2000 autobiography, 'Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story' the onetime heir apparent to Joe Paterno devotes many pages to his relationships with boys he met through the Second Mile.

He also makes reference to his own children during an exchange with some of the boys from the charity.

Sandusky wrote that one night he was talking to two Second Mile boys who had rebelled against their foster parents, with one boy telling how his foster father had 'grabbed me around the back of my shoulders and he made me do something when I didn't want to do it.'

'Do you ever grab your kids like that?' the boy asked Sandusky.

'No, I don't grab my kids like that,' Sandusky answered. 'I grab them like this.' He wrote: 'With that, I put my hands gently around their throat.' It was an apparent jest.

'I could tell they were totally confused,' Sandusky wrote. 'Both boys had a scared look in their eyes.'

The book repeatedly described Sandusky hugging boys and detailing how he was very close to those he met through the charity. Of the photos that line his office walls, he said: 'They are kids that have touched my life and have been a part of me for a long, long time.'

In the book he paints himself as someone who would repeatedly take risks in the hunt for what he refers to as 'mischief.' 

'I believe I live a good part of my life in a make-believe world,' Sandusky wrote in one of the final chapters. 'I enjoyed pretending as a kid, and I love doing the same as an adult with these kids.'

Whether Mrs Sandusky was worried by any such behaviour is not yet known. What is established is that she has been by Sandusky’s side since the mid-1960s, when they married.

Originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee, she had met Sandusky in Washington a few years before. He endearingly called his wife 'Sarge,' because she was in charge in their home, ESPN News reported.

Losers today: Penn State narrowly lost their NCAA college football game against Nebraska at the Beaver Stadium in State College, Pennsylvania today

Former leaders: Jerry Sandusky (left) was the defensive line coach under head coach Joe Paterno (right) before Sandusky retired in 1999

The shocking Grand Jury indictment makes repeated accusations that victims were abused inside the couple’s home.

Victim 1 spent many nights there sleeping in a basement bedroom. The report states that Sandusky would come down to the basement to check on him at bedtime.

The report found that Sandusky 'indecently fondled Victim 1 on a number of occasions, performed oral sex on Victim 1 on a number of occasions and had Victim 1 perform oral sex on him on at least one occasion.'

Phone records also confirm that Sandusky made 61 phone calls from his home phone to Victim 1's home phone between January 2008 and July 2009 despite Victim 1 expressing a wish that he no longer wanted to see the football coach. 

The defensive coordinator also made 57 calls from his personal cell phone to Victim 1's home phone. 

Heyday: Jerry Sandusky (centre) is a star in football circles as he is closely identified with the school's reputation as a defensive powerhouse

Despite these actions, there is no suggestion whatsoever in the indictment that Mrs Sandusky was aware of her husband's sexual relations with Victim 1 or any of the other seven victims.

Experts have suggested that she and her children could well have been kept in the dark.

'[Abusers are] very good at hiding it from everyone,' clinical social worker Farlie Chastain told WRCB TV. 'Very good at seducing the child and manipulating the child not to tell.'

However, Chastain, who counsels sexually abused children and teenagers at Parkridge Valley, Tennesee and at Foxus Psychiatric Services in Tennessee Valley, adds: 'I've seen it both ways, in which the family knows and is in denial.'

Meanwhile State College police have reported that someone threw two cinder blocks through a bedroom window at Sandusky’s house on Thursday night.

The news came as it emerged that the accused child rapist, who is out on bail, lives close to an elementary school and playground.

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Rugby star went on drunken rampage and ended up naked in bar

By LUKE BENEDICT ( pics: Getty & independant Images)
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World Cup winning All Black winger Zac Guildford has shocked New Zealand after he was caught staggering into a beachside Rarotonga bar naked, bleeding, soaking wet and drunk before allegedly assaulting two holidaymakers.

Witnesses say Guildford walked into the packed Trader Jacks bar on Friday night, dripping wet and without clothes. 

He had a cut on his forehead that was bleeding and wounds to his chest and knees, which were later claimed to be caused by a scooter accident earlier in the day.

Troubled: Zac Guildford is at the centre of drinking controversy

Bar: Trader Jacks in Rarotonga

It is alleged the 22-year-old, who was in Rarotonga for a friend's wedding, then punched one man who had asked him if he needed help, before striking another tourist, Australian Nick Cox, on the back of his head.

Cox told the New Zealand Herald: 'I was standing at the bar waiting to get a drink and I wasn't expecting it.' 

According to another witness at the bar, named only as Fiona, he was very drunk. 'His eyes were gone, he was completely out of it,' she said.

Guildford then climbed up on to the bar's stage. 'At that stage he seemed to realise he was naked and tried to cover his penis,' she said.

It seems not only do New Zealand put England to shame on the pitch, but they have the players to top Mike Tindall for off-field misdemeanours, too.

Like a scene from Fawlty Towers, bar staff then attempted to wrap an apron around his waist before escorting him into the car park — only for his buttocks to still be showing through the gap. Another witness said Guildford appeared 'completely psychotic'.

Problems: Guildford has been in scrapes before

During the World Cup, Guildford had a series of meetings with All Black coaches, including head coach Graham Henry, where he promised he would take steps to control his drinking, and even publicly admitted he had a drinking problem at an emotional press conference.

David Tautu, who works at the bar said he didn't care that Guildford was an All Black. 'I was just trying to get him out of here. He was naked and bleeding and he got into a scuffle at the bar.' 

Another barman said the crowd turned on him, shouting 'You're a f******* embarrassment, you're an All Black!' 

Guildford has twice broken team rules this year with late-night drinking. In August, after the All Blacks' Bledisloe Cup victory against Australia at Eden Park, he left the team hotel without security personnel and returned the next morning. 

Later that same month he broke a team curfew, leaving the hotel in Brisbane after a defeat by the Wallabies and drinking heavily.

Happier times: Guildford (right) poses with the World Cup trophy

New Zealand Rugby Union general manager Neil Sorensen said they will help Guildford rather than sack him.

At a hastily arranged press conference he said: 'The  first thing we'll do is find out the facts. The second thing we will do is help the guy if he is in trouble. Again, our first move is to really say "how can we help this guy". But we've got to establish the facts and it sounds like he got up to something. We are not denying that.

'Zac's been in front us about three times in the last 18 months. So he's had a bit of a troubled career and it's been well-publicised. He lost his dad a couple of years ago. 

'He's also had some alcohol-related issues in the past, and we've worked closely with Zac over the last 18 months and many people have, and we will continue to do so. He's a good young man.'

 

"They aren't gay rights; they're human rights "

Laurie Friedman-Fannin column:

I can't believe it's 2011 and we're still debating gay rights. I can't believe we're still calling it "gay" rights.

The right to care for partners when they're ill, to have a say in their health care, to be by their side when they die, to make sure children have healthy parents — these are human rights, are they not? Basic human rights. Why are we still arguing about this?

To opponents, how does the mere existence of same-sex couples threaten to shred the moral fiber of anyone's life. What exactly is it that gets your dander up? Is it the lifestyle? Do you feel it's your duty to make sure everyone lives "correctly," which, of course means, just like you?

Is it the Bible, the zealot's permission slip, the manual that tells self-righteous, sanctimonious thumpers how to live and who to hate?

Is it the sex itself, the fact that two people who share gender dare to be intimate? What if I don't like what you do behind closed doors? Can I hate you with impunity?

And don't give me the "we hate the sin but not the sinner" garbage. That's akin to saying, "I don't hate black people. It's their skin color I object to." It's a colossal crock.

So what do we do when some of those who opposed the city of Appleton's plan to offer same-sex domestic-partner benefits to its employees dress their homophobia in budgetary concerns?

They drape a veil of political correctness over their prejudice, making it all the more insidious. They tell you they're trying to save the taxpayer $100,000 when, in reality, it's gay bashing at its most refined.

We should be applauding Appleton's giant step into the 21st century, giving domestic partners (some of whom have been together longer than many sacrament-approved one-man, one-woman unions) the right to be there for each other in the worst of times.

To those who disagree, is the quality of your life going to be diminished because my friend, Katie, would like benefits for her partner, Amy? Or because Ken and David want to be there, in good health, for their two sons?

Really, how does their desire for family, for security, and their love for each other mar your daily existence? Can you give me one example, one solid thing. No? I didn't think so.

No one is asking you to embrace the homosexual lifestyle, but it would be nice if you could accept the homosexual.

I'm still waiting for the day when "gay" is no longer an adjective — when we no longer place that word in front of "man," "woman" or "marriage."

It's coming. Perhaps not in my lifetime, but I believe my children will see a better world.

We, as a country, are so rigid, so unforgiving, so far behind the rest of the civilized society. I find it ironic that we're considered the great melting pot of the world and, at the same time, we're the least tolerant of diversity.

There is no homosexual agenda here. There is no "they," trying to shove anything down anyone's throats. There are just people who want a good life. Don't we all deserve that?

I want to recognize the Appleton Common Council members who voted to expand benefits. Thank you. It takes guts to fly in the face of discrimination.

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail."

Blaze away, people. Blaze away.

The Gay Marriage Play Opens On Broadway } Standing Ceremony

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Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, which is now in previews and opens at the Minetta Lane Theatre tonight, November 13, assembles some of America's most illustrious and Award-winning playwrights, including Mo Gaffney, Jordan Harrison, Moisés Kaufman, Neil LaBute, Wendy MacLeod, José Rivera, Paul Rudnick and Doug Wright, all responding to one of the defining issues of our day -- the on-going battle for marriage equality throughout the United States - in a heartfelt, funny and altogether illuminating evening of short plays that celebrates the courage to be in a relationship - any relationship.
Conceived by Brian Shnipper and directed by Stuart Ross, Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays features a rotating cast of the best actors from theater, film and TV. The premiere cast includes Craig Bierko (The Music Man), Mark Consuelos ("All My Children"), Polly Draper ("thirtysomething"), Harriet Harris (Thoroughly Modern Millie), Beth Leavel (The Drowsy Chaperone) and Richard Thomas (Race).
Standing on Ceremony has partnered with Freedom to Marry, the campaign to win marriage nationwide, for its Off Broadway premiere and will donate a portion of all ticket sales to Freedom to Marry and other organizations promoting marriage equality.
Earlier this week, Standing on Ceremony joined with Tectonic Theater Project (Moisés Kaufman, Artistic Director; Greg Reiner, Executive Director) for Standing on Ceremony: The National Event, to help take the play's message across the country (and the globe). For one night only, on Monday, November 7, more than 40 participating theaters across America and beyond presented their own productions of the play to raise awareness and funds in support of marriage equality.

Tickets for the Off Broadway run of Standing on Ceremony, priced from $59.oo to $79.00 (plus a $1.00 theatre facility fee), are now on sale via Ticketmaster.com and at the Minetta Lane box office (18 Minetta Lane).

Standing on Ceremony is produced Off Broadway by Joan Stein, Richard Frankel, Annette Niemtzow, Fakston Productions, Harley Medcalf, Jon Murray, Harvey Reese, in association with Diana Buckhantz and Niclas Nagler; Associate Producers, Luigi Caiola, Rebecca Falcon and Mary C. Solomon and Executive Producer, Joe Watson.


 

The Biggest Homophobe Anti Gay Ruben Diaz Has New Gay Neighbors in His Office Building

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The Bronx's largest gay-rights group is opening its new headquarters Monday inside the very building funded by, and named after, the state's most vocal same-sex marriage opponent, state Sen. Ruben Diaz.

Bronx Pride is preparing to open in the Rev. Ruben Diaz Gardens, a 111-unit building on Kelly Street and Westchester Avenue opened two years ago, reports the New York Post. The building is funded by the city Housing and Development Corp., and backed by his nonprofit.

Bronx Pride is preparing to open in the Rev. Ruben Diaz Gardens, a 111-unit building on Kelly Street and Westchester Avenue opened two years ago, reports the New York Post. The building is funded by the city Housing and Development Corp., and backed by his nonprofit.

Diaz, 68, who is also an ordained minister, is reportedly furious about the new tenants, the Post says, especially after losing the same-sex marriage battle in the state capital this year.

Bronx Pride Executive Director Dirk McCall told the Post, "It [just] happens to be entertaining that the building's named after someone who opposes marriage for us."

Diaz has been in close quarters with gay rights activists before: his lesbian niece, Erica Diaz, has previously taken their family conflict over same-sex marriage public.

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Bill Maher } Rick Perry ‘is dumber than Sarah Palin’

By Andrew Jones    Raw Story

 

 

In the season finale of HBO’s Real Time, host Bill Maher chimed in as expected on Rick Perry’s debate gaffe heard around the world.

“At one point when he was trying to come up with the third agency, he actually looked down at his hand, which proves this man is dumber than Sarah Palin,” Maher said. “At least Sarah Palin understood that words don’t just appear on your hand. Someone has to actually write them.”

 

 by Andrew Jones  who is a staff writer/reporter for Raw Story. Besides covering politics, he is also a freelance sports journalist, as well as a slam poetry and music artist. You can follow him on Twitter @sluggahjells.

Eddie Redmayne THE HOT YOUNG BRIT Now A Man Not a Boy

 

BY DAVID WALTERS,

 PHOTOGRAPH BY PETER LINDBERGH

NOVEMBER 2011 ISSUE   DETAILS Mag

 

"I walk around talking to myself in accents," Eddie Redmayne admits. "Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop." The 29-year-old London native isn't crazy, just determined to get his characters' voices right. Most recently, he mastered a Texas-meth-head twang for the upcoming dark comedyHick; now he's working on his Elizabethan English for the title role in Richard II at London's Donmar Warehouse. Redmayne's freckles and pouty lips (which landed him a gig as a Burberry model), combined with his lithe, boyish energy, have led to numerous roles as conflicted young naïfs: He was the neglected offspring of Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie in Robert De Niro's CIA saga The Good Shepherd, his big-screen debut, and Julianne Moore's petulant son in the incest drama Savage Grace. Last year, he earned a Tony for his role in the Broadway play Red as an apprentice who challenges the Abstract Expressionist great Mark Rothko. Redmayne's knack for balancing innocence and ambition has made him an increasingly hot casting commodity: Witness his starring turn in this month's My Week With Marilyn, about an eager production assistant who has a brief fling with Marilyn Monroe, played by a platinum-haired Michelle Williams. Redmayne says his character's star-struck infatuation came naturally. "Dawson's Creek," he recalls, "was deeply moving stuff."

  

Bieber with Pants Down } Malfunction or just Fashion Not Looking Awesome

   by MARIANNE GARVEY   Eonline.com

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Justin Bieber's been caught with his pants down. And we're not talking about his baby-daddy scandal.

The "Mistletoe" singer, who's currently fight against accusations he's the father of a fan's baby, almost suffered a major embarassment in Paris as his pants fell victim to gravity and a lack of a belt while he was strolling with girlfriend Selena Gomez.

So what did the Biebs do about his pants heading south?

He just kept walking.

The singer was surrounded by so much security on his way to a lunch date with Gomez (the couple seem to be going strong despite Beiber's scandal), he kept his arm wrapped around her while the duo fought the crowds.

His jeans managed to stay up, even though they landed right below his bum. And for those keeping score at home: Justin

 

Penn State Holds A Minute of Silence for The Boys Sexually Abused by Head Coach

 BY SARA HAMMEL  PEOPLE.com

Players in a moment of silence at Penn State

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 Shortly before Penn State's first football game since a sex scandal rocked the university, some fans cried, swayed and hugged during a moment of silence for the alleged victims of sexual abuse. 

The atmosphere was emotionally charged as players in State College, Pa., knelt for the prayer held mid-field before kickoff. 

Saturday afternoon's game, against Nebraska, was the first since Penn State's head coach, Joe Paterno, was fired after a child-sex abuse scandal came to light involving former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. 

Despite fears of a repeat of violence that erupted on campus Wednesday after Paterno's firing, Saturday's game unfolded peacefully, from the pre-game tailgating to the teams' clash on the field. 

Penn State's team marched on the field, linking arms. And fans answered a call to wear blue, the color signifying the fight to prevent child abuse. 

The game drew a huge crowd of more than 100,000, whose cheers were

more frequent, if not more subdued. Penn State lost the game, whose 
final score was 17-14 though commentators noted the team showed
"heart" in coming back from a rocky start. Both teams received an 
ovation as they left the field.  

 For the most part, fans appeared to embrace dueling sympathies: for the victims of abuse and for Paterno, who had served the school for some 60 years. "Joe Knows Football" was emblazoned on one fan's sweatshirt, and a banner with the message, "This One Is for You Joe," was held in the stands.

Meanwhile, donations for two child-abuse prevention organizations were accepted at the gates. And a sign reading "Stand As One" was also seen in the corner of the north end zone. 

During the game, Paterno's son, Jay, a normally low-key quarterbacks coach, punched the air and yelled, "Let's go!" and high-fived fans on the way into the stadium, ESPN reports. A few players appeared to have tears in their eyes, and three wore shirts that read "Joe Knows Football." 

And after Penn State's loss, Jay Paterno broke down in tears as he told ESPN, "Dad, I wish you were here." 

Sandusky was accused of molesting eight boys over 15 years, both before and after his retirement in 1999. He was indicted on 40 counts, including inappropriate touching and statutory rape, and university trustees this week fired Paterno and college president Graham Spanier for allegedly not doing enough to prevent the abuse on their watch.