Looks like John Ziegler says don't believe any of the victims, that it's all the mother's fault, that, like the Catholic Church, I guess (?) this pedophile should have been transferred years ago, (damn those New York Jets) - oh yeah and the Board? Had no idea what was going on (emphasis mine).
"Mike McQueary never said he saw Sandusky raping a boy who actually was almost 14 years old on the actual night in question, a date which was 13 months earlier than McQueary and the prosecution claimed. That boy, now as a well established adult in a respected profession, in the months leading up to the firings had written multiple letters to the editor published in local newspapers (and to the PA Attorney General) urging people to not believe the accusers of Sandusky. He also, on the record, told the police and Joe Amendola's FBI-trained investigator that he was never molested by Sandusky, that McQueary was lying, and that the police were trying to get him say things which were untrue (the proof of this will be released at this website shortly).
As for the mothers, we now know that Victim #1 (Aaron Fisher) and his family do not blame Penn State at all, but rather Central Mountain High School. Meanwhile, the mother of Victim #6 actively allowed her son to maintain a very close relationship with Sandusky for over a decade after Sandusky was "exonerated" by authorities for the 1998 incident for which he was eventually convicted in 2012 (with no further criminal allegations from the boy in the interim).
We now know (ironically from the Freeh Report) that Sandusky's retirement in 1999 was completely unrelated to the 1998 investigation. Based on our interview with Sandusky I am completed convinced that had the New York Jets not lost the last three games of the 2000 season to just miss the playoffs, the "Penn State Scandal" never happens. (My interjection here - um, John? do the rapes of 10 year old boys continue? but they just happen in NY is this your argument? ok back to the story) This is because the Jets' head coach Al Groh doesn't decide at the very last moment to tell the University of Virginia (his alma mater) he wanted the job there, almost literally taking the contract out of the hands of Jerry Sandusky, just five weeks before the McQueary episode.
Finally, it is now apparent that the Penn State Board of Trustees not only didn't have any inside information upon which to base their grossly premature guilty verdict. It also clear that they completely panicked in the face of the media firestorm and ended up paying Louis Freeh millions of dollars in order to justify their original unjustified actions."
I have said from the beginning of this that this would do nothing but to further victimize the brave young men who testified against their rapist in June,2012. As I wrote on a message board (Penn Live) last night:
Jim Clemente labeled Jerry Sandusky as a "master manipulator" able to fool a community. There is nothing he can say that will be believed. You can't, on one hand, say that he is a master manipulator, but when he says something Ziegler likes, that NOW we can believe him. He is a liar, a rapist and unapologetic for any of his actions. In fact, he has already had his 'interview" right before he was sentenced where he blamed the victims - again re-victimizing and traumatizing them.
To give this rapist ANY platform is sickening and unfair to the young men he raped. NBC, John Ziegler and you, Nellie Romer, do NOT have these young men in mind promoting this.
They will be re-victimized just having to listen to this man. Do you know anything about triggering? Please do research on Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and how it relates to child sexual abuse. This is an outrage to these brave young men who stood in open court and told the world what happened to them.
This is gratuitous and you should be ashamed in promoting it. As a survivor myself, I know what it is like to be triggered. Hearing my grandfather's voice, seeing pictures of him can put me right back into that abusive situation - right back into the fear, shame, blame and heinous acts - I can FEEL his mouth on me - do you get that? Jerry Sandusky is in prison and DOES NOT DESERVE ONE MINUTE OF AIR TIME - I don't care how edited it is.
You want to HELP prevent child sexual abuse? Stop believing convicted pedophiles.
Thank you,
Roxine