In the harsh light of the trial and of hindsight, the idea that Sandusky got away with exploiting and harming child after child is very hard to understand. How could the Penn State officials?including the late, legendary coach Joe Paterno?have failed to stop Sandusky? Maybe they couldn?t bear to absorb what McQueary was telling them, maybe they couldn?t bear to think that this coach they?d known for so long was capable of such terrible acts. Maybe they froze. If any good can come out of this spectacle of a trial, it will be our increased awareness about why sexually abused children rarely come forward, and how adults, even well meaning ones, can fail them so terribly. But what matters right now is for Jerry Sandusky to admit to the wrongs the evidence unalterably shows he committed. He owes his victims much more. But this, at least, he could give them.
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