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Day care rampage caught on tape 9-year-old’s reign of terror – YouTube.
Shouldn’t this boy be charged with something? Yes, the daycare worker wasn’t paying attention and has been charged for her lack of it, but this boy needs to learn what he did was wrong. He also needs some therapy and counseling or he will wind up behind bars.
Just my thoughts,
~P.
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The punishment for allowing a child molester to roam freely on a college campus has been handed down by the NCAA.
It seems everyone has an opinion on whether the sanctions were fair. The millions in fines and millions lost in revenue from bowl games and bobble-heads of JoePa…yes it’s going to be tough. But, it doesn’t have to ruin the college. Really, if anyone is guilty of ruining the college’s sparkling reputation, it’s the people who were employed there.
“Nicole Lord, a senior, questioned why Penn State’s student body, and especially its athletes, should be punished “for the wrongs of three men and a monster.”
“They keep breaking our hearts and breaking our hearts and breaking our hearts,” she said. (AP)
Well Nicole, if you think your heart is breaking, how do you think those little boys felt when that barracuda-looking man, Sandusky was raping them in the shower? Not only were their hearts breaking, their childhood was stolen and taken by a man they thought could be trusted. Even worse was the discovery of this serial rapist in the act who was then quietly ushered out of the football program and given his own charity to hand-pick even more victims. His superiors made this happen for him and he must have been elated. Not only did he get mucho bucks to retire, they gave him all kinds of “extras” making his sickness even easier for him to enjoy.
Penn State is taking a pass on fighting the sanctions. A very wise choice. The Paterno family would be wise to let things rest, as JoePa now is.
“Penn State meekly accepted its punishment, pledging to hold itself to high standards of honesty and integrity.” (AP)
My question: Where the fuck was that pledge in 1998?
At least one person, granted a graduate, gets why this punishment is so important for the victims and their families.
“Our heritage, our legacy has been tainted and damaged,” said Troy Cromwell, a wide receiver on the 1986 team that won the second of Paterno’s two national championships. Cromwell said he felt bad for current and incoming players, “but at the end of the day, there were still those kids, those poor kids, and those victims, and we have to think about them first in everything that we do.” (AP)
I’ve attended PS football games and enjoyed myself but can’t say I was frothing-at-the-mouth fan. It’s just a game. A GAME with a winning team and a losing team. People are upset that the college has been stripped of their wins from 1998-2011. Boohoo…the boys didn’t want to be stripped and raped either but it happened. It happened and many people knew yet they wanted to be humane to the child rapist. How can being humane to a child rapist even make sense to these college-educated men? One doesn’t even have to be college-educated to realize there is no such thing.
So the rapist was concealed and given the freedom to continue his sick sexual desires on the campus for years after he was discovered. Paterno wasn’t happy about that as we all learned in Freeh Report, but did he step up and really try to stop Sandusky? Hell no.
No one wanted to be the whistle-blower. The wave-maker in Happy Valley. The sticking-my-neck-out for the innocent children handed to the campus pervert. It wasn’t until they had no choice because the truth was coming out no matter what they tried to hide. The BOT certainly had an inkling that Sandusky had a penchant for little boys….but they turned their heads too.
I don’t want to hear any whining or complaining that all those years and wins were just erased like they never happened. They happened alright….and all those boys who fell into the hands of a sick, sick man who felt he could get away with anything…well they know they were raped and their childhood taken.
Penn State earned those wins over the years while harboring a serial rapist. The team, coaches, staff, etc. won games while children lost their innocence.
In the long run and in stark reality, there was no winning…..only loss.
This punishment could have been much worse for the college and still never make up for what Sandusky did.
Let the healing begin,
~P.
These people have not been caught. Please share this story on your social networks.
This man did nothing to this car load of 5 people.
This world is a mess!
~P.
Appalachian Trail hiker burned by Gettysburg group – The York Daily Record.
Ray Gricar is missing and has been for years. Just disappeared. Never to been seen or heard from again.
Did he want to file charges against Sandusky? Change his mind when he realized Sandusky was one bad example of a human-being?
Was there someone at Penn State powerful enough to make a District attorney vanish in 2005?
Ya never know…
~P.
The Freeh Report is an excellent example of a formal press release format. If you haven’t taken a look at it, I suggest reading. Everyone who can read, should read this report.
The report is difficult to read, not in the sense of the language but because of the subject matter. It is far from a positive press release. Freeh pointed out all guilty parties from the janitors to those men who ruled the den of the Lion.
I don’t think protecting your job (even JoPa’s) is more important than protecting a child.
I know it’s not.
~P.
http://www.thefreehreportonpsu.com/REPORT_FINAL_071212.pdf
Freeh Report
A three car pileup brought traffic to a sudden stop on Carlisle Road. At 6:34 the 911 call was made by a local resident. After more than 20 minutes, West Manchester Township fire police arrived on scene. Traffic was directed by another resident until more help arrived. Approximately 30 minutes after the initial 911 call, police vehicle #3 of the West Manchester police force arrived.
Involved in the accident were a Tacoma truck hauling two large pens of chickens, a Dodge mini-van and a VW Jetta. The Jetta’s airbags were both deployed. Each vehicle had a driver and one passenger. There were no injuries to the humans or chickens.
The driver of the Jetta stated, “I just looked down. I was driving the speed limit.” He declined to give his name.
The Tacoma and the Dodge were moved from the road and the Jetta was towed from the scene.
There were no injuries to the humans or the chickens. The chickens maintained their silence. There was nothing left to cluck about.
~P.
I feel like summer is passing so quickly that every day needs to be savored. Before I know it classes will be back in at York College.
I’ve loaded my schedule up with some serious Humanities (English) classes and electives.
Advanced Composition
Short Story (according to one of my haters, I will be great at this because I’m a liar. Rolling my eyes.)
Photography I
Audio Production
History of Rock and Roll
All my fall classes sound very interesting so I’m looking forward to heading back to campus. Still need to narrow down my minor. Multimedia, public speaking, creative writing, religion….errr I can’t make up my mind!!
I’m just not in any hurry as my summer has been the best ever in my life.
Just a Junior in the fall,
~P.
A hot topic in York, PA is the sentencing of juvenile killers.
Recent cases involve Zachary Witman who was 15 when he stabbed his 13-year-old brother to death outside their home in 2003. Witman was sentenced to life in prison.
Another local case involves Jordan Wallick, 17 who gunned down James Wallmuth II in York city two years ago. Wallick was sentenced to life in prison.
The talk is: should juvenile killers get life sentences with no chance of parole.
Should the actions of a teenagers be held against them for the rest of their lives?
I’ve become pen pals with a prisoner who shot someone when he was 16. In 1986 Corey Hollinger shot a man during a home invasion and has been paying for his crime ever since. I’ve never met Corey but did research about him and his brother’s case in college. Writing to Corey on a whim really opened my eyes. He isn’t anything like the stereotypical life sentence prisoner. It seems to me (and many others) that two lives have been wasted. The man who died and the man who will spend his life in prison for being an idiot at 16.
Two more lives wasted….the Witman brothers. One is dead and the other will die in prison for snapping on his little brother. If only there were a rewind button. I don’t think any of these three juvenile killers really meant to take a life. Even Wallick most likely didn’t have intentions of shooting Wallmuth.
Six ruined lives.
Pennsylvania is re-evaluating the “life in prison with no chance of parole sentence to juvenile.” What will happen to those who were sentenced years ago before this was determined to be unconstitutional? Each case will have to be evaluated individually and there are 2500 prisoners in Pennsylvania sentenced to life without parole.
Corey and Zach should be at the top of the list.
~P.
Since I didn’t stay in Georgia, I decided to drive until I couldn’t drive anymore then get a room for the night. I hadn’t eaten or showered since I left PA and I stunk bad. Ying didn’t mind though. One thing about traveling with a dog…at least they don’t mind if you smell and they don’t keep asking if we are there yet. We stayed at the Blue Jay Motel…a complete dive, but I was allowed to have Ying in my room. When I took him out in the morning I was startled by all the vultures right outside our room. I swear they were watching us!
Not Blue Jays
On my way home from Georgia, I made a detour in Virginia to check out the Natural Bridge. I quickly realized the entire town is centered round this bridge. There was a Natural Bridge zoo, cave, haunted wax museum, café, hotel, etc. By far, the best Natural Bridge spin-off was the trailer park.
I wanted a picture of this Natural Bridge so I followed the signs to the location. There was a purple minivan in the parking lot that caught my eye. Every step I took toward it, the van seemed to shimmer in a different color. The paint job was awesome….who the hell paints a minivan like this?!
Soccer Mom Minivan
I didn’t see the Natural Bridge of Virginia because they wanted $17 just to walk through the door. Oh well, I saw the billboard of the Natural Bridge and let’s not forget the trailer park. There were other things on display from the wax museum so I snapped pictures and was on my way.
Creepy
Creepier
Creepiest
My trusty GPS directed me towards the main highway. I was on a back road about two miles from the highway when out of the corner of my eye I spotted a sign off to my left. “Foamhenge” I hit the brakes recognizing the name on the sign. My Religions professor, Christa Shusko, had told me about this foam replica of the Stonehenge located in England but I had no idea where it was located. I couldn’t pass this up so I turned around and drove up the dirt road. The further I drove the worse the road became. There were huge ruts crisscrossing the “road” and I hesitated to keep driving. I didn’t want to rip the bottom of my car apart after she had so faithfully got me to Georgia.
I parked along the woods so Ying would have some shade. There just doesn’t seem to be as many trees down south. I was still shaking my head, amazed I stumbled across Foamhenge by luck. I even giggled thinking my Prof would be jealous…I saw the Georgia Guidestones and Foamhenge!
Looks like the real deal from a distance….okay maybe not.
I didn’t stay at Foamhenge more than half an hour. My Facebook status announced I had jumped on a plane with Ying and flown to England. From a distance, Foamhenge was convincing. Once I was closer I could see how the weather had worn the foam rocks down. Pieces of metal, rebar I suppose, were sticking out the top of the rocks. A couple of the stones had been vandalized but not anything serious. The foam replica of Stonehenge was very cool. Not spiritually moving, but cool. I didn’t realize there was a theory about Merlin moving the huge stones with magic. I think that sounds more believable than the human theory.
Baaaahahahaha!
Wizard Merlin
Merlin moving the rocks
Maybe Merlin was an alien wizard….he would have loved the minivan and vultures.
~P.
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