I heard today that they fired the coach from Penn State, the coach who knew for 9 years that he had a pedophile working under him…today the truth finally caught up to him.
What will he now be remembered for?
It is my hope that this will open the eyes and hearts of many who know something, and for whatever reason…be it a friendship, a game, a reputation, etc, is keeping silent. It is my hope they will learn to take action today. To keep telling someone until someone listens.
In the 9 years that the Joe knew, how many little boys suffered under the hands, strength and power of this pedophile? How many little boys wondered how they could shake down this whole big powerhouse, when the head coach knows and does nothing?
So many have such high remarks for the way this coach IS Penn State's money maker, mover shaker etc. If that is so, doesn't it just beg to be asked, then why oh why didn't he use his influence back then to clean house in order to save his team's reputation?
It makes it much worse, for this man/coach was a man of power, who had the ears and eyes of so many along with the trust, that IF he had spoken up, many boys, now young men, would have been spared the ugly imprint of abuse.
While some want to keep his 'goodness' off to the side and have his many years of football go untouched. Interesting, "untouched"….that is exactly why he didn't tell. He didn't want any bad publicity to mar his team, his staff, his game. So, he did as many do, he preserved a team while sacrificing young boys…their lives meant nothing to him…or perhaps it is better stated, his football team and winning meant more.
I am thrilled that he was fired. It isn't that his career just soured, it has had this running underneath for all these years. It is just now that the public knows what lies beneath.
This gives me great hope, it fills me with confidence, that no matter how big or how powerful or how long a reputation is, a voice of victims still out weighs their past.
I am hopeful he will be defined now as a man who put football before helping out young boys from under priviledged homes who were being abused by someone he knew and protected. He played for the glory and turned away in their greatest time of need.
I am happy to see that heads are rolling…even if it is 9 years too late. Let us hope he becomes the poster child for keeping silence. How wonderful we have such a big figure to show the world what silence does.
May this help in the healing as these boys and young men work on healing their psyche. For it does matter how you all see the real man….not the coach, but the character of the man.
Who are you when you can know that boys are being hurt while you are tossing a ball around a field for points? Points? Surely this is the land of pure insanity.
It is beyond what a heart and mind can comprehend. That these young boys lives were worth less than a point.
I M Perfect lady 