THIS DUDE!;Why did Jerry Sandusky's wife call abuse victim weeks before his testimony and how much did Dorothy and six adopted children know about Penn State 'paedophile'?
Jerry Sandusky’s wife has been largely absent from the analysis of who knew what about her husband’s alleged sexual abuse of eight boys over a 15-year period.
But Dorothy 'Dottie' Gross Sandusky does make an appearance in the 23-page Grand Jury indictment which graphically details the charges against the 67-year-old former Penn State coach.
Mrs Sandusky, 68, attempted to call one of the victims in the weeks leading up to his testimony, despite the fact the now 26-year-old had cut off all contact with Sandusky two years prior.
She left a message on Victim 7's phone saying the matter was 'very important' but the man, who told the Grand Jury that as a ten-year-old in 1994, Sandusky hugged and inappropriately touched him, did not return the call.
Part of that alleged abuse took place in the Sandusky family’s State College, Pennsylvania, home, in which Dorothy and her husband raised their six adopted children. Sandusky claimed he and his wife could not have any of their own.
Over the years the couple became the parents to Ray, now 46, a businessman living in Nashville, EJ, 41, former Nittany Lions player, and now a football coach at West Chester University, Kara, 38, a Penn State graduate, Jeff, 35, a former Marine, and 33-year-olds Matt, a Penn State graduate and Jon, who is Director of Player Personnel for the Cleveland Browns.
Quite how much any of them knew about the sexual abuse, which occurred between 1994 and 2009 with a number of incidents at the family home, is now under scrutiny.
The former Penn State defensive coordinator and his lawyer, Joe Amendola, have maintained that Sandusky is innocent and publicly denied all allegations. Neither Dorothy Sandusky nor any of her adopted children have yet made a statement on the scandal.
The Grand Jury indictment states that Sandusky selected his young victims from the 'Second Mile', a charity he started in 1977 devoted to helping troubled boys in the State College area. Mrs Sandusky helped out with the running of the programme.
'After we had taken in some foster children, we saw the opportunities that some kids just hadn't had,' Mrs Sandusky told Sports Illustrated in 1982. 'But we'd gotten to the point where we couldn't take in anymore, so Jerry started thinking about starting a group home.'
In his 2000 autobiography, 'Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story' the onetime heir apparent to Joe Paterno devotes many pages to his relationships with boys he met through the Second Mile.
He also makes reference to his own children during an exchange with some of the boys from the charity.
Sandusky wrote that one night he was talking to two Second Mile boys who had rebelled against their foster parents, with one boy telling how his foster father had 'grabbed me around the back of my shoulders and he made me do something when I didn't want to do it.'
'Do you ever grab your kids like that?' the boy asked Sandusky.
'No, I don't grab my kids like that,' Sandusky answered. 'I grab them like this.' He wrote: 'With that, I put my hands gently around their throat.' It was an apparent jest.
I could tell they were totally confused,' Sandusky wrote. 'Both boys had a scared look in their eyes.'
The book repeatedly described Sandusky hugging boys and detailing how he was very close to those he met through the charity. Of the photos that line his office walls, he said: 'They are kids that have touched my life and have been a part of me for a long, long time.'
In the book he paints himself as someone who would repeatedly take risks in the hunt for what he refers to as 'mischief.'
'I believe I live a good part of my life in a make-believe world,' Sandusky wrote in one of the final chapters. 'I enjoyed pretending as a kid, and I love doing the same as an adult with these kids.'
Whether Mrs Sandusky was worried by any such behaviour is not yet known. What is established is that she has been by Sandusky’s side since the mid-1960s, when they married.
Originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee, she had met Sandusky in Washington a few years before. He endearingly called his wife 'Sarge,' because she was in charge in their home, ESPN News reported.
The shocking Grand Jury indictment makes repeated accusations that victims were abused inside the couple’s home.
Victim 1 spent many nights there sleeping in a basement bedroom. The report states that Sandusky would come down to the basement to check on him at bedtime.
The report found that Sandusky 'indecently fondled Victim 1 on a number of occasions, performed oral sex on Victim 1 on a number of occasions and had Victim 1 perform oral sex on him on at least one occasion.'
Phone records also confirm that Sandusky made 61 phone calls from his home phone to Victim 1's home phone between January 2008 and July 2009 despite Victim 1 expressing a wish that he no longer wanted to see the football coach.
The defensive coordinator also made 57 calls from his personal cell phone to Victim 1's home phone.
Despite these actions, there is no suggestion whatsoever in the indictment that Mrs Sandusky was aware of her husband's sexual relations with Victim 1 or any of the other seven victims.
Experts have suggested that she and her children could well have been kept in the dark.
'[Abusers are] very good at hiding it from everyone,' clinical social worker Farlie Chastain told WRCB TV. 'Very good at seducing the child and manipulating the child not to tell.'
However, Chastain, who counsels sexually abused children and teenagers at Parkridge Valley, Tennesee and at Foxus Psychiatric Services in Tennessee Valley, adds: 'I've seen it both ways, in which the family knows and is in denial.'
Meanwhile State College police have reported that someone threw two cinder blocks through a bedroom window at Sandusky’s house on The other night.
The news came as it emerged that the accused child rapist, who is out on bail, lives close to an elementary school and playground.
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Centino Kemp a LIAR??? A Fox 5 Atlanta I -Team Investigation
The 5th man to come forward in the Eddie Long sex scandal, Centino Kemp, sat down with Fox 5 in Atlanta to set a few things straight. Namely that he's not an accuser and that his name is not on any paperwork.
Fox 5 did a little digging on their own and found out Centino checked himself into a mental health facility when the scandal first broke and told doctors there that he had been in a six year physically and sexually abusive relationship with Eddie Long. But, when Fox 5 talked to some of Centino's former friends they said it was all a scam...
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Well the jury is still out. Doesn’t make Eddie Long innocent neither!
Another one bites the Dust; Zoe Saldana breaks off engagement and splits with long-term love of 11 years
Actress Zoe Saldana, best known for her portrayal of a Na'Vi princess in the blockbuster Avatar, today announced that she and her fiance, entrepreneur Keith Britton, have called it quits after 11 years.
The pair 'have amicably separated after 11 years,' her representative said in a statement.
Saldana, 34, and Britton, 36, revealed their engagement in June 2010.
At the time, the actress said that Britton was very supportive of her life in the Hollywood spotlight, and that she felt he was the only person who knew 'the real Zoe.'
The pair are also business partners, having co-founded a fashion industry website called My Fashion Date Base.
Saldana, who was born in New Jersey but spent seven years in the Dominican Republic as a child, looked stunning in an emerald green floor length dress as she presented at the Latin Grammy awards on Friday night.
Betraying none of the inner sadness she obviously felt, the actress was the ultimate professional as she battled through the Las Vegas event with a beatific smile on her face.
She had previously said of Britton: 'I feel like the partners that stay at home, they have their lives, but they’re the ones that are living with the real you.
'I think that they need to be recognised, every now and then, every 10 years, just come out in public - put him on the spot and just say thank you.
'He’s a very independent soul. He understands what I do, but this is not what he fell in love with and that’s what I love.'
Since starring in smash hit movie Avatar, she has been touted as one of Hollywood's biggest up and coming actresses but her last film, Colombiana, flopped at the box office
Saldana admitted to having been left overwhelmed by her meteoric rise to fame and confessed that by the time she started making Colombiana she was physically and emotionally drained.
'The year after Avatar was just emotionally overwhelming. I was travelling all over the world, waking up in different time zones,' she said. 'Your body gets exhausted, and by the end of the year I just collapsed.'
The pressure took its toll when it came to starting work on Colombiana: 'I was in Paris training for Colombiana, sitting in my hotel room, and I couldn’t stop crying.'
Nevertheless, she added: 'We’re hoping to do Avatar 2 next year. James Cameron is working on the script now and I’ve missed playing Neytiri. I can’t wait.'
While the Star Trek star has yet to make a direct statement regarding the split, on Friday she tweeted, 'You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.’ – Buddha.'
Her rep also added: 'Saldana and Britton remain committed business partners as co-founders of fashion resource MyFDB.com. Respect of their privacy is appreciated during this time.'
