Jerry Sandusky with 'The Second Mile' kids convicted
Friday 22, 2012 will long be remembered in the Keystone State as the day of infamy.
Today justice was served for young defenseless victims of unspeakable horrors by men whom they trusted in the state of Pennsylvania. One verdict rendered this morning in Philadelphia. The other rendered tonight in Bellefonte, PA.
Monsignor Lynn, 61, of the Philadelphia Archdiocese, the sixth largest in the country, oversaw hundreds of priests under his leadership. He was convicted of one count of endangering the welfare of a child, a young alter boy, making him the first senior US Roman Catholic official to be convicted for covering up child abuse perpetrated by a known, by him, serial pedophiliac priest. His sentencing is set for August 13 and faces up to 7 years in prison.
Jerry Sandsuky, 68, was the long time football assistant coach at Penn State University and founder of 'The Second Mile', a non-profit charity serving Pennsylvania underpriviledged and at-risk youth. He was convicted on 45 of 48 counts of sexually assaulting 10 young boys over 15 years. His sentencing is set for early October. He faces 400 years of imprisonment. He will die behind bars.
There are many unanswered questions but the most pressing is why? Why did these men do what they did?
Why did Monsignor Lynn move this priest around from parish to parish fully knowing of his perverted desire for young boys, and, more egregiously, cover up the fact from the authorities? Shamefully and tragically, Monsignor Lynn selected to protect the church from scandal and reduced parishioner financial support and neglected protecting the kid from this predatory priest.
Why did Jerry Sandusky, a married man with a family and great career, perform such horrific sexual acts against the children he was entrusted to help? In doing so, he ruined his life, his family and the many lives of his victims. Why? I have no answer for that, other than, simply, he was possessed by demons, devils, darkness and pure evil.
As the guilty verdicts were read in two different parts of the state, mothers of the brave and broken victims in both court rooms wept the same tragic line, "Nobody wins. We've all lost." The victims. The families. The perpetrators. The Catholic Church. Pennsylvania.
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