Agree. And no one has to answer as to why the charges were dropped.In most instances 0% chance of conviction under these circumstances. But this is PA.
Agree. And no one has to answer as to why the charges were dropped.In most instances 0% chance of conviction under these circumstances. But this is PA.
Which will quickly disappear since the FTR charge was based on an OAG retro-"S-T-R-E-T-C-H" that in 2007 when the law was changed, they should have remembered to report under the new law change. They DID report properly under the 2001 law. The endangering charge was based on this twisted version of FTR so should disappear as well.
Even under the 2007 change they met the requirements.
Exactly.
There's no way in hell the state can prove FTR/EWOC since MM testified no one told him to keep quiet and Curleys report to JR at TSM should have caused a report to CYS to be made. The state would have to argue their action of reporting to madatory reporter TSM prevented a report from being made...uhhh good luck with that. Also it doesn't matter what Curelys untrained opinion was, JR was required to look into any and all incidents. We also still don't know for sure that the admins didn't directly inform Harmon and CCCYS themselves. If CCCYS was informed by PSU and screened the complaint due to it's similarity to 98 or determined it to be unfounded there'd be no record so impossible to prove a report wasn't made.
And that is all besides the fact the state still needs to get around the statute of limitations and ex post facto issues, which are flagrant violations of the constitution.
Wensilver, I'm only sorry that I can't give you a thousand likes for your post rather than only one.It's serendipitous that Castor - whom McGettigan flew the "Baldwin strategy" past way back when - and advised them NOT to do it - now has this come full circle back to him to deal with.
This remaining crap will be on MontCo commish Josh Shapiro's doorstep come November if it's not cleaned up. I think we can all safely say he'll be our next AG.
Same goes for MontCo DA Kevin Steele - who wears the PSAA prez hat - who also has this parked on his doorstep flaming away.
Beemer will have to eat this shit sandwich that Fina slapped together.
Castor knows full well if Fina & Corbett had only properly investigated & charged Sandusky and key Second Mile principals and left Penn State alone - everyone in public office would have won.
We now know the price of a botched political assassination by Tom Corbett is half a billion dollars and half a million people.
As a commonwealth citizen I'd love to see him charged.
you really hit on one of the weaknesses of the state's charges: that is, Raykovitz was never charged. with anything
there's just no logical way Curley can be charged with FTR and endangerment if JR was NOT.
good luck trying to explain that one in court.
I knew those BOT bots would disappear the days these charges got dropped.
Is there any organization or group in the history of the world more deserving of the title,"Ship of Fools" than the OGBOT of PSU?
Yup. Same thing with Dr. D and JM. How'd they also not get charged? The state/MM wants us to believe it's bc MM was so upset he was never, at any point in time, able to articulate what he saw that night to them yet somehow spilled his guts to fuys he hardly knew in TC and Schultz. Yeah right.
CSS/JR all testified to the same thing re: 01- an inappropriate shower that made a PSU GA uncomfortable. Id love to hear the state's explanation for why they threw the book at some college admins and let JR ride off into the sunset.
Only thing I can think of is the state claiming TC sanitized the story before talking to JR as part of the "cover up". Well if he did that then why tell JR anything at all especially when TC had no control over what JR would do with that info? Also it doesn't matter what TC's untrained opinion was. JR was required to look into any and all incidents and certainly one involving one of his employees and an inappropriate late night 1:1 shower with a kid.
the far-fetched theory is that Curley toned down the incident so much that informing Raykovitz of the incident, and banning Sandusky from campus with Second Mile kids, was the PERFECT deception to make a mandatory reporter and trained child psychologist shrug his shoulders and think about swimming trunks.
Could you imagine the wrath if Joe's response to MM was to suggest JS wear swim trunks then send him home and take no further action (exactly what JR did with TC on his doorstep complaining about JS)?
JR should have been the one getting crucified by the media for failing to protect the kids JS was hanging around with instead of Joe but no one has ever heard of him so the media wasn't interested. All the mouth breathers gobbling up the current narrative couldn't care less about JR's failures either...smh
couldnt they say that curley and Shultz told something different to Raykovitz then what they were told by Mike?
Good thought, but it will do absolutely no good. Why do you think they chose to ignore this in the first place? The media is as corrupt as our BOT, the PA judicial system, and anyone else you might want to name.Seems to me we should all be flooding the PG and Inquirer editors with emails about the fact that they haven't even bothered to note this rather significant development.
couldnt they say that curley and Shultz told something different to Raykovitz then what they were told by Mike?
Now these guys are being held over for felony counts of loitering, jay-walking, chewing gum in Singapore, and not washing their hands after peeing.
As long as the clueless MSM keeps going to Penn-Jive for their "breaking news" on anything Sandusky-related the real news is doomed. Someone with integrity in the news media needs to stop following their false "leads". AP is the organization who needs to take that step. Pronto.[/QUOTE}
One of the biggest problems in this whole fiasco is that AP is not the same old AP. You basically have kids taking in local reports, summarizing and then distributing. That's why you get the lack of nuance or appropriate complexity in reporting. My local news was literally summarizing AP summaries during the Sandusky media rush. What happens? Absurdities and blatant falsehoods such as "Judge Freeh conducted an official investigation" as if he's part of some governmental entity. Or, "Coach Sandusky, Paterno's assistant coach was arrested (as if Sandusky was an active coach)." Or, "Graduate assistant Mike McQueary witnessed rape and was told to cover it up by university leaders." These are examples of the reporting that goes on now. Imagine the average Iowan hearing that stuff. No wonder they think Joe was watching kids get abused..
No, he's still REQUIRED to investigate the incident by CPSL and Childcare Licenses especially given the fact that the incident was serious enough that it resulted in TSM's privileges at PSU being revoked (and TSM has issued a Press Release saying that they were only told of the witness being upset by what they saw and thought Sandusky's conduct was highly inappropriate at best.....not the serious charges of the SWIGJ.... - well, nobody is saying they were told the serious allegations of the SWIGJ including Dr. Dranov, JVP, JM, TC, GS! and MM HIMSELF! But TSM being told. What TSM was told required them to look into the incident and conduct their own investigation by their own policies, their Childcare LicensesPA and CPS as "Mandated Reporters" - none of which applied to MM, JVP, TC or GS.).
need pennlive, CDT, state-college.com all to start to cover this and write an article on it....time to email them until it happens
And OAG will hold a press conference with C/S/S head shots on easels announcing their complete and total exonerations. Noonan will be on stage as well to provide comic relief, in lieu of a formal clown act.Thanks. And I'm sure this will make front-page headlines when it happens.
Sure they could.....but unless they have evidence to prove such - how in the hell do you take it inside a courtroom?couldnt they say that curley and Shultz told something different to Raykovitz then what they were told by Mike?
Sure they could.....but unless they have evidence to prove such - how in the hell do you take it inside a courtroom?
They - the Fina Boys - NEVER presented one iota of such evidence. NONE.
This is a topic deserving of MUCH more detailed discussion....but the bottom line is that the Fina Boys F-ed over more people than Wilt Chamberlin.
Of anyone in this entire fiasco, no one - - - not even Sandusky - - - has been more clearly shown to be deserving of wearing the orange jumpsuits than the Fina Boys.
Wouldn't it be nice if those two mugs somehow found their way onto a couple of mug shot photos at a press conference.
Awesome! So multiply the #100 in Wilt's sign by 200 and that equals the # of sexual conquests Wilt claimed, 20,000.the Fina Boys F-ed over more people than Wilt Chamberlin.
couldnt they say that curley and Shultz told something different to Raykovitz then what they were told by Mike?
It is still not clear whether the child endangerment charges are misdemeanor or felony. The state can determine the level based on intent. If it's deemed intentional, not accidental, it's a felony. Originally these were felony charges. If that still holds these are still very serious.
Based on what? A law written 6 years later in 2007, which by the way they still met the reporting requirements?It is still not clear whether the child endangerment charges are misdemeanor or felony. The state can determine the level based on intent. If it's deemed intentional, not accidental, it's a felony. Originally these were felony charges. If that still holds these are still very serious.