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Pious Perverts See other Pious Perverts Articles Title: Penn State to Get Hit With Civil Suit, Sources Say Alleged victims of former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky are working with at least two legal teams to prepare civil lawsuits against the university—seeking damages from the university over administrators’ failure to take action.
“This may be the most high-profile sexual abuse case ever,” says Benjamin Andreozzi, a Harrisburg, Pa., lawyer who is representing at least one of the victims listed in grand jury filings. Adreozzi noted that once other potential victims see that they’re “not alone,” perhaps they’ll come forward, too.
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“I think things are going to be fast and furious over the next weeks,” one attorney said.
With reporting by Kevin Cirilli in State College, Pa.
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It is going to be interesting following this, although I find stench of evil sickening, to see how successfully the cover-up is put into place and how many mid-level pervs will be sacrificed to protect the high level pervs. Subscribe to *US INDUSTRIAL WAR MACHINE* Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 60.
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unfortunately because this is in the news, that's the first thing most people will think of when Penn State is your alma mater. however, this is not fair to alumni, professors, employees outside of the football program, current students, etc who had nothing whatsoever to do with this sin. this guilt by association is bullshit. and i have to disagree with you in regard to their playing football. a clean sweep of the perps is all that is warranted, imo.
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we'll just have to disagree that a diploma from Penn state is tainted for all who have ever gotten one. sure this has brought shame to the university, but Penn State is first and foremost an academic institution. for example, what does what happened in the football program have to do with what happened in math class? your approach, imo, is to throw the baby out with the bath water. again, the University is much more than its football. even still, there's absolutely no reason that the athletes past and present shouldn't be proud of their personal achievements. a clean sweep of anyone who had anything to do with this situation is what's warranted, not a destruction of the entire school and community.
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yes, that clears things up, except for this. SMU's infractions were recruiting violations. this is a different matter involving a few and, as far as i know, there's nothing in the NCAA rules that addresses pedophilia (on that note, every one involved deserves their day in court and please don't take this as in any way defending the cast of characters here, i'm just mindful of what happened at Duke). my point is again that i don't think the present or future athletes should be punished UNLESS there is something in the NCAA rules that addresses this in some way.
You'd think that the NCAA would have a morals clause somewhere; but my search came up empty.
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