Among hundreds of child-sex-abuse witch hunts in the 1980s and 90s, two examples alone–the alleged “child-sex rings” in Kern County, CA and in Wenatchee, WA–account for the arrest of over one hundred innocent people. Few among the accused were able to afford a private lawyer. None could have mounted a half-million-dollar defense. Most were dumped on underfunded public defenders facing cases of a number and magnitude they had never before experienced.

In the first Kern County cases alone, two couples tried simultaneously in Bakersfield, the Kniffens and McCuans, were convicted on more than 400 felony charges. The judge handed down individual sentences from 273 to 405 years, for a total of over 1,000 years. Although they were innocent, their convictions eventually overturned, the Kniffens and McCuans–four white, middle-aged working stiffs and loving parents–were incarcerated for fourteen years, eleven in maximum security prison, as unrepentant child rapists. http://www.christianpeet.com/cost-false-cases-child-sexual-abuse/

So, is Jerry Sandusky a ‘monster’? An upstanding citizen, or a pedophile who used his Second Mile Foundation as a front to procure young boys for himself and, as subsequent rumor would have it, his ‘wealthy donors’? Look at the preceding: All those cases as noted above, and cases throughout the Untied States, went to a court of law where the defendants were convicted by a group of their peers and ‘duly’ sentenced, yet were subsequently found innocent only through completely rendering themselves penniless in appeals trying to clear their names.

One of the so-called ‘facts’ of the case is that Mike McQueary testified that he saw Sandusky ‘doing something’ that McQueary wasn’t 100@ sure what it was, with a child in the Penn State team shower, nevertheless he went to JoePa and told Joe told him he “did the right thing”. McQueary testified that he went back into the shower a few minutes later and Sandusky and the child had ‘separated’ and that both Sandusky and the child looked him “right in the eye.” First of all, what sane person would take a child into a public place, especially a football team shower and forcibly sexual assault them? Was Sandusky doing that for the thrill of it all?

Be that as it may, the long span of time that McQueary had to ‘do the right thing’ while standing daily next to Jerry Sandusky borders upon depraved negligence at the very least.

The trump card for the prosecution, however, was when those ‘brave children’ came forth with their well-rehearsed stories. Are those stories true? I don’t have a clue, but like the Kern County, CA and Wenatchee, WA cases, and practically every case where a child is concerned, the ‘adults’, and prosecutors with political aspirations, shoot first and ask questions later. Such cases are built on circumstance and innuendo, and those trying to defend themselves are characterized as ogres ‘preying upon the innocent.’

‘JoePa’ is not here to defend himself. Whether the consensus is that ‘he should have done more’, is anyone suggesting that he was aware of exactly what was going on? What was Sandusky to him that he would risk his name, his fame, and the good name of Penn State University, to sweep under the rug the fact he had a pedophile on his staff, and his consideration of that pedophile was more than his consideration of those children?

Almost daily we read of Catholic Church priest convictions for molestations that make it appear that the Church is rampant with pedophiles just lurking in every confessional waiting for the unwary child to enter. Much like the ‘50’s where we saw a communist behind every tree.

As to Louis Freh and the NCAA regards their conclusions in the Sandusky/Penn State matter, don’t get me started.