UNITED STATES
Sun-Sentinel
There’s been a great deal of sensational news lately concerning pedophiles in the United States. The common denominator is these individuals preyed upon children while religious and educational institutions established upon foundations of trust and morality ignored or covered-up such disgusting and illegal behavior.
The most sensational: the trial of Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State football coach,. He was convicted last week on 45 of 48 counts for sexually abusing several young boys over a number of years while they attended camps sponsored by Sandusky’s Second Mile charitable organization at Penn State.
The riveting testimony at his trial from several victims not only showed that Sandusky, who had worked most of his career under legendary Coach Joe Paterno, and one of the nation’s most lucrative and revered football programs in the county, abused these boys on the Penn State campus, but that university officials failed to act on them when sexual abuse reports were made.
A second child abuse trial that did not receive as much national attention also concluded last week in Philadelphia. A jury on Friday convicted Catholic Monsignor William Lynnhim of felony for refusing to challenge his cardinal and stop the cover-up of child sex abuse by priests.
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