Penn State Sex Crisis
By Eric Maritato, LBST 2101
On
November 5th Jerry Sandusky was arrested. He was later charged with
45 counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse.[1] He was
the founder of the organization called Second Mile. This was a charity program
to help disadvantaged youth. It was said that Jerry Sandusky found all of his
victims through this charity organization.[1] The
school fired the head coach Joe Paterno and forced the president Graham Spanier
to resign for concealing information about the Sandusky case. Jerry Sandusky is
now serving a sentence of 30-60 years in prison.[2] The
NCAA then went on to fine Penn State sixty million dollars, bans the football
team from the postseason for four years and removed all wins between 1998 and
2011. Also, the NCAA lost 20 football scholarships per season for four years.[1]
Now
in my opinion I believe that Jerry Sandusky is a horrible man and does deserve
to live the rest of his life in prison, but he shouldn’t have brought down the
entire school and the football program with him. I think that the NCAA was very
harsh with their punishments. They are punishing players who had no relations
to the case. Students I think are also potentially punished because their
college experience has been tarnished. Current students would never have the
chance to see their football team make the playoffs. I also, feel bad for Joe
Paterno the old coach of the Penn State football team. He was such a legend at
that college. He even had a statue outside the school of himself. After the
case his entire career exploded. The school took all his wins away for him and
everything he accomplished. Yes, he probably did conceal information that
should have brought to the general public sooner, but he had no connections to
anything that Jerry Sandusky did. Joe Paterno later died after being fired from
the team. Some say he died of a broken heart. Penn State will always be
remembered now for what Jerry Sandusky did and it will be hard for the school
the gain back the respect that they used to have. I hope to see the program
grow and succeed again in the coming years. A recent report came out in October
that Penn State is paying 59.7 million dollars to twenty-six men in Jerry
Sandusky’s sex abuse case.[2] This shows that Penn state is doing
everything they can to make things better and put the horrible tragedy behind
them
[1]
CNN,
Library. CNN, "Penn State Scandal Fast Facts." Last modified October
28, 2013. Accessed January 31, 2014.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/28/us/penn-state-scandal-fast-facts/.
[2]
Puskar
, Gene. New York Daily News , "Penn State will pay $59.7 million to 26
victims in Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal." Last modified October 29,
2013. Accessed January 31, 2014.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/psu-paying-59-7m-sandusky-article-1.1499020.
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