MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press

By Ruben Rosario
twincities.com
Posted: 10/09/2012

It’s time to start holding people other than the predator accountable for the rapes and sexual molestation of children.

I’m talking here about those whose instinct is to protect the institution and its reputation rather than protecting children. Examples abound this week and in recent months.

On Tuesday, Oct. 9, former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was sentenced to a 30- to 60-year prison term — by normal estimates a life stint, considering he’s 68 — for sexually molesting 10 boys over a 15-year period while operating on the side a foundation for underprivileged children. …

Sandusky’s sentencing followed Monday’s charges against a former drama teacher and “dorm parent” at elite Shattuck-St. Mary’s School in Faribault, Minn. Lynn Seibel, 70, is facing charges he sexually assaulted at least six former students during his 10-year teaching stint…