Jerry Sandusky's book, 'Touched,' helped police investigation into alleged sex crimes

[Are_grits_groceries]

The investigation of Jerry Sandusky took three years.

And it took Sandusky himself — through the pages of his autobiography, “Touched” — to help police find Victims 3, 4, 5 and 7.

At the end of 2009, police had spent almost a year trying to corroborate claims by a single boy — a 17-year-old Clinton County teen later known as Victim 1 — who had alleged years of sexual abuse by Penn State’s legendary defensive coach. Only one state police investigator had been tasked to handle the case.
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The 1998 boy was called Victim 6 by the grand jury. After police found him, the man’s mother told them about Sandusky’s autobiography, which was sitting on the shelves of the Penn State bookstore. A Google search of the name “Jerry Sandusky” would have revealed the book in seconds.



Victim 6’s mother and sister sat down with police, flipped through the pages of Sandusky’s book, and quickly identified boys who had often attended football games together. That led police to identify four more alleged victims, according to Victim 6’s mother.
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http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/01/jerry_sanduskys_book_touched_h.htm

Oh the irony.....

It is beyond ludicrous for anybody to say they couldn't find any information or for Joepa among others to claim ignorance. Inspector Clouseau looks like Sherlock Holmes compared to the law enforcement officials in Centre County and PSU.

I wish they would jail every one of these mooks who looked the other way! They all belong under the prison.

Sandusky is going to get touched.

[Initech]

1. The mere fact that his biography is called "Touched" should have set off alarms.

I'm totally obsessed by this case just because of the sheer stupidity on all sides of Penn State. He's a total fucking creep who should have been put away a long time ago, but the whole thing just gets weirder by the day.

[limpyhobbler]

2. really?? his book is called 'touched'????? reality stranger than fiction sometimes I tell ya.

[malaise]

5. Hubris will do that to you

Unfuggingbelievable

[Blue_Tires]

8. probably totally intentional, too

some kind of sick inside joke to himself...

[AtomicKitten]

4. LOL.

[Blue Owl]

6. ...and that cover photo/design...

Yowza.

[Initech]

10. Holy crap!!! I never thought about the cover design until now!

Like I said - this just keeps getting weirder and weirder.

[book_worm]

7. Touched? a chillingly apt title.

[RainDog]

9. k&r n/t

[blue neen]

11. The question continues to be "What the hell was Tom Corbett thinking?"

"Revelations like this only fuel the questions that persist about how Gov. Tom Corbett — who was attorney general at the time — handled the Sandusky case. Three years elapsed between the time the Clinton County boy came forward and the day that Sandusky was charged in November."

"Corbett and current State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan have insisted it is flat-out wrong to suggest Corbett wanted the investigation to move slowly during his campaign for governor. Both have said investigators waited to find evidence to corroborate Victim 1’s claims."

"But that evidence didn’t really come until early 2011 — after Corbett left the attorney general’s office — and Noonan bumped the number of investigators on the case from one to eight."

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/01/jerry_sanduskys_book_touched_h.html

Tom Corbett was too busy lining his pockets with Marcellus Shale money to protect children from a dangerous predator like Jerry Sandusky.