Penn State - The Freeh Report

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh

This week, the hammer came down yet again on the head of Penn State University.  The PSU Board of Trustee's paid millions of dollars to have former FBI Director Louis Freeh to investigate into exactly what was happening since the mid 1990's with Jerry "The Sandman" Sandusky and the rest of the people allegedly involved with the cover up of the rape of several children.  What the Board got was a 267 page kick in the teeth.  What he uncovered was that Joe Paterno and other top Penn State officials hushed up child sex abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky more than a decade ago for fear of bad publicity, allowing Sandusky to prey on other youngsters, according to a scathing internal report issued Thursday on the scandal.  Freeh reported, "Our most saddening and sobering finding is the total disregard for the safety and welfare of Sandusky's child victims by the most senior leaders at Penn State," said Louis Freeh, the former director of the FBI who was hired by university trustees to look into what has become one of sports' biggest scandals. "The most powerful men at Penn State failed to take any steps for 14 years to protect the children who Sandusky victimized."  Freeh called the officials' disregard for child victims "callous and shocking."  "In order to avoid the consequences of bad publicity, the most powerful leaders at the university -- Spanier, Schultz, Paterno and Curley -- repeatedly concealed critical facts relating to Sandusky's child abuse," the report said.
Paterno "was an integral part of this active decision to conceal,"  Freeh said at a news conference.

Scumdusky and Big Nose Paterno

Now, for all of you Penn State fans that are still screaming that Big Nose Paterno got hosed when they sent him packing, read this.  Asked directly if Paterno's firing last fall was justified, Freeh answered, "Yes."  It appears that several high ranking PSU officials including Paterno knew about what Sandusky was doing to the young boys and decided to turn a blind eye to it in fear of the bad publicity it may bring to the school.  It also appears that "Big Nose Joe" was the lead character in covering up all of the horrors.   Spanier, Schultz and Curley drew up a plan that called for reporting Sandusky to the state Department of Child Welfare. But Curley later said in an email that he changed his mind about the plan "after giving it more thought and talking it over with Joe."  This to me stinks of Paterno pressuring Sapnier to not report it to authorities.  Also, these PSU officials allowed Scumdusky to retire in 1999 not in disgrace, but with an unprecedented $168,000 retirement package and a full reign to the campus which allowed him to groom more victims over the next several years.

Actual hand written letter.

I could go on and on and on about these horrors which were uncovered by the Freeh Report.  The sad fact is Joe Paterno was a cover-up specialist.  He was a low life scum bag who wielded a mighty wand of power over Penn State University and he used it for his own gain.  He was the mastermind of what is the biggest cover up of a crime in college history.  For all of you "Big Nose Joe" fans all I have to say is wake up and smell the coffee.  This includes Paterno's son Jay who said,  "They took some of the facts that they had and where they didn't have facts to support some of the conclusions, they came to what they call reasonable conclusions. There's some things here that still have to be resolved with sworn testimony, which is a much higher bar and a much higher burden of proof than an investigation like this".  ARE YOU FREAKIN' KIDDING ME!  He could only hope that this thing does not go to sworn testimony because if it does, they may end up digging up his old man's rotting carcass and putting "IT" on trial along with all of the others.  They should also take a bull dozier and rip that idiotic statue of Paterno right out of the ground.  It now represents a total failure of a human being.  Every time people see that statue they will think, "Boy did he screw up"!  I know all of you PSU fans will respond with, "But he did so many good things in his life".  Yes, he did but the fact remains that this one atrocious failure will mark his legacy forever.