UNITED STATES
Goucester County Times
By Gloucester County Times Editorial Board
The region’s two biggest criminal cases, now concluded, have one appalling feature in common:
In this booking photo released early Saturday morning June 23, 2012 by the Centre County Correctional Facility in Bellefonte, Pa., former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is shown. Sandusky was convicted on Friday, June 22, 2012, of sexually assaulting 10 boys over 15 years. (AP Photo/Centre County Correctional Facility)
They’re both about grown men, men in positions of authority, and abuse of little boys.
The lessons are writ large for parents, teachers and employers. This stuff happens, and it happens in places where it’s least likely to be suspected.
In church.
In a respected college football program.
In a typical American small town.
In Philadelphia, Monsignor William Lynn was convicted Friday of child endangerment for covering up abuse within the Philadelphia archdiocese from 1992 to 2004. A jury couldn’t agree on a verdict for colleague who was charged with trying to rape a 14-year-old boy. The trial came after several guilty pleas and dozens of claims from boys who said they were molested by trusted parish priests.
In central Pennsylvania, former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was convicted Friday night on 45 counts of child sexual abuse involving 10 boys.
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