Penn State sex abuse victim bullied out of school

The cowards that bully this kid all should be kicked out of school and sued.

That is just disgusting. Punishing the victim for what someone else did. That really shows how screwed up things are when u put sports ahead of the IMPORTANT THINGS.

That's no surprise. The young man is twice victimized–once by Sandusky and again by the mindless idiots who are his classmates who have beeen so thoroughly brainwashed or are also victims and refuse to admit it. Shame on all the spineless cowards.

This boy's former highschool and classmates should be publicly identified and shamed! The class of 2012 in that school will graduate with dishonor. The school should be discredited and forced to provide proper training to teachers and students. Victim no 1 is the hero of the year. They are the ignorant, immature, unfeeling scum that is dragging this country down into the gutter of history.

Unfortunately it is a sad thing to realize that these bullies are our future.....Maybe this is an awakening of the current state of our High Schools all accross the U.S.
Our future does not look so good unless something changes with these kids attitudes now.

This is my school. I knew the victim personally and the victim was an okay kid who doesn't deserve this.. You can't blame the whole class of 2012 for something a few students did.. You could blame the administrators for not teaching us more about this and do a better job of keeping the victims identity hidden better.

I'd like to know how on earth the kids know it's the victim... the name was never given. I feel bad for this poor boy. Trying to do something right and this is what he gets... sad.

The same thing happened with Michael Jackson's accusers. Those boys and their families received death threats from MJ's fans. I believe MJ was guilty of molesting young boys, even though a jury acquitted him.

Ridiculous that the reporter on the phone kept using the words immaturity and ignorance to describe what happened to this brave kid. It's obvious that this was STUPIDITY and HATE. Shame on these cowardly kids and their parents.

I'm losing more and more respect for all of Penn St. everyday!

First they riot like they have been personally wronged. JoePa is just one man. Life goes on. They act like he breast-fed each and everyone of them!

Now they belittle a victim of sexual abuse because they think it's his fault? ALL of this puts a smile on Sandusky and his lawyers.

Pretty soon the only way I'll know Penn St. is from this COVER-UP.

The exact same mentality in Afghanistan, when a women who gets raped by a man, gets punished (beaten, killed, stoned) for "infidelity".

Primitive..

WELL SAID VELMA! Right on the mark! Sports are heading towards the "Rollerball" mentality. The victim is important not the freaking football. The bullies should be the ones ousted from school not the abused child.

A sad state of affairs when deranged fans put their team ahead of a victim's rights. Identify the bullies, remove them from the school and take them to court to hold them accountable for their actions.

Can anyone wonder why our countries are going down the gutter??? This young man withstood probably the most demeaning act one can endure, and then the idiots he goes to school with bully him?? Maybe some recent graduates need to go back to this school and hunt down the bullies and put a good beating on them!!!
When we finally hold people like this accountable, this kind of thing will continue.

You can't blame the many for the actions of a few. Not all of Penn State should be ashamed – those who did wrong should be ashamed. Not all of that school should be ashamed – the kids who reacted with no human decency should be ashamed. That is part of the problem with today's world. You shouldn't generalize and you shouldn't point fingers until you have the full story. And yes.. what is happening to this kid is terrible.. my parents would have kicked my a** if I ever treated anyone that way. Highschool students are not kids.. they are old enough to know the difference between right and wrong.

It seems as though the administration at Penn State are determined to cover up this mess as they have for years. They have kept the same coaching staff, appointed a tustee as A.D. and have manged to keep their records sheilded from open records laws. It makes one wonder how many other cases exist within Peen State involving others besides Sandusky

Penn State has been exposed for what it is: a terrible place to send ANY children, whether they are 10 or 18. The vast majority of students have shown themselves to be vapid neanderthals, either by ignorant rioting, sadistic bullying of rape victims, or by flooding the message boards with "WE ARE PENN STATE HUH HUH HUH!" They have to learn this behavior somewhere, and I would start by looking at the faculty.

The kids responsible for the bullying should be suspended or expelled for this, or ship them to Afghanistan where they can feel at home. America has no place for this crap. Victim #1 is a hero.

Where are the police? Doesn't Penn. have an anti-bullying law?

Offer to put a wire on him and when someone does something, crash in and arrest him/her.

Victim #1 could consent to a phone tap. E-mail and SMS are already traceable but could be spoofed. But then, so could the phone #. (But you have to know how).

I think the State of Penn. should pay this fella's tuition at another state college (including an out of state college). Further, tuition, room & board, books, should all be refunded by the state. The employees were state employees after all.

Apalling, that this child has to be twice victimized. He is the only one that acted responsibly. And where are the adults in the room? Why are they allowing bullying? Why are the perpetrators not being severely disciplined? I went to Penn State and thought Joe Pa should have retired when he covered up the date rape in New Jersey. Now I know I was right. I am hoping the kids on the team aren't penalized as a result, it certainly wasn't their fault, and I hope the football program continues. But without the creeps who thought it was necessary to allow this to go on.

Victim #1 truly is a hero. He really is. He's the one who finally opened the floodgates to disclosure of the [awful] truth (in Michael Moore's words). The fact that this is happening in a nearby HIGHSCHOOL not at Penn State University, shows how widespread and pervasive this culture is, of worshipping this sport and the stoicism, secrets, denial, as if it were an extreme religion or a cult group unto itself, very much like that of the catholic church. No one is allowed to escape conformity, the abuse and unwritten rules of this culture. Anyone who speaks out or complains is a heretic and must be dealt wit severely, harshly. A fellow Penn State student told me once "[college] football is GOD in Pennsylvania and New Jersey." Well I tell you, this whole culture is acting very much as if it were one giant organized crime syndicate. People who seek and worship power tend to be the ones who hold contempt for anybody they perceive as being weak or victimized. And I'm sure these are the type of people who are attracted to such a culture, a culture that worships fame [, money] and power and ignores ethics. Remember how NYC mafia boss John Gotti was idolized in his own community? Same situation here. They don't care whether Joe Paterno was a devil or angel. They will do anything and everything to keep him shielded and keep Penn State football winning games.

This could be considered a form of mob or tribal behavior. (i.e. Lord of the Flies, Children of the Corn). People who are very group-oriented tend to be this way. "There is no I. There is only the team and you are part of it." This phenomenon of submerging individuality for the [greater good] of the group is also present in team sports such as football, or platoons of soldiers in the military for that matter. In group/mob situations, peer pressure to conform tends to be high and also with this, comes intolerance to any differences to so-called "outsiders" or people who try to depart from the ways of this group. The group has its own collective fears as well as goals. It behaves as if it were a single entity. And usually the personality of that entity is determined by the leader of that group.

The dark sides of the nature of this culture is finally coming to light. I don't know how wide spread it is. It might be the area around Penn State, or the entire state of Pennsylvania [and New Jersey], or maybe even further, maybe the entire nation. You can find examples of this barbarism and savagery everywhere in the world. The worship of violence, cruelty, control, unquestioning obedience and the "hive mind". It is my belief that the origin of this mentality is the use of physical punishment and torture as a socially acceptable means to force conformity and submission of individuals. (This is a form of mind control.) The more frequently physical punishment is used and the more severe the physical punishment, the more violent and unethical, sociopathic the victims become.

These witnesses need witness protection, not just hiding their identities!

Mental illness has much to do with physical/mental trauma.

This mentality doesn't limit itself to football or athletics. I believe it spreads to areas like politics and beyond. (e.g. Former Gov. Ed Rendell calls Joe Paterno "my good friend".)

That's no surprise. When my own case broke in the '90s, I thought kids would forget over the summer. Nothing doing. I had "Lolita" scrawled on my textbooks all freshman year – and that was the mild insult. Kids are cruel.

I really hope this psych. was authorized by the student to let this be known to the media. If not, wow, just wow

These teen bullies are just a reflection of our mean-as-hell society.

Perhaps they should each be anally raped by Sandusky as well and then decide if football is more important? Yet one more example of the decay of society and detachment from reality.

This is just going to get worse as time progresses. All the good Joe Pa did over many years have been tainted beyond belief, and Sandusky needs a Psych eval as he is deloooozzzinal.

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Greg, there is no way you could be more right.
For those who speak against generalizing, in this case, is bad: how on Earth are we supposed to know who exactly said what to victim #1? Those spineless idiots are obviously too cowardly to come out and apologize. We have no choice but to blame the schools staff and its students.
This is the most appaling news story I have read in a long time. How is it possible for someone to know that this student has been abused, and still harrass him? It makes no logical sense.
My prayers are with victim no. 1. I can honestly say that I hope each and every student who either bullied victim no 1, or did not speak out against such blasphemy, rots with guilt.

What I want to know is :

How did the "bullies" find out?

Andrew Sullivan is right: this is depravity. I'm disgusted with the barbaric behavior of the kids at this school - and the lack of decency of the protesting and rioting students at Penn State - who put their loyalty to a disgraced football coach above child rape victims.

So. The media says this and it's gospel? The charge is made and without a shadow of proof everyone assumes its accurate. And, we find the school guilty as well. Thats whats wrong here. If people knew something was up with Sandusky and failed to get the low down and do something about it, they have no moral fiber. About the same as people who will cast dispersion based on a "news" story based on an assumption to sell news. Oh yeah, and the "and sued" one liner was especially telling.

It amazes me how many people SUPPORT this pedophile!

Another reason why teen bullies should be dealt with by police and courts...schools don't do the job necessary, nor have the power to do so. Harassment, threats, etc, are all CRIMES...why should there be an exception when it occurs in a school? The damage is the same.

Further cementing PSU's new public image, "The School that Looked the Other Way."

Perhaps it's time football took a vacation from Penn State.

There should be no statute of limitations on sex crimes! These criminals should never be allowed to get away with what they did! Their victims will forever be mentally tortured by reliving the horrific abuse they endured as a child, and there will be some for whom the abuse would be too much to emotionally handle and live with and commit suicide, what about the victims rights? Maybe they out to start investigating if any boys who were in contact with this dirt bag Sandusky have committed suicide, and throw his disgusting dirty butt in jail.

Why attend the school you were raped at when there are tens of thousands of schools across the country?

Penn State is about as close to being a catholic school as any public university can be. Is anyone surprised?

If Sandusky is tried and convicted, Paterno's fall is justified. Being head coach means the buck stops with him. In short, he didn't do enough when the time to act presented itself.

Penn State fans who aren't sensitive to this case, who don't see the reasoning for Paterno being canned, those people are what's with America.

It is pretty clear that the maturity of the State College community is not high enough to support a large state school and it's athletic program. Time to shutter Penn State forever.

To answer an earlier question...The football coach/assistant principal announced the young man's identity at a football parents meeting. Nice, huh? He is the same administrator who allowed Sandusky to take the young man off of school property WITHOUT his mother's consent OR knowledge.

One day these oh so young clueless kids will have their own children and then they will understand what it means should some dirt bag like Sandusky touch their little boy or girl. Little kids were sacrificed for a football team.
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Joe P. failed this test and those who came forward to report the abuse had the courage that many do not.

Wow hasn't this kid been abused enough? If I heard my son did this I'd send him to school with LOSER written in sharpie on his forehead. Bullying is not ok. Then I'd do the same to the teachers that allowed it.

Honor > Football

It is becoming readily apparent that the State of Pennasylvania is not mature enough to have a major NCAA program. We have judges that do not recognize conflict, legislatures that grant freedom of information immunity to public institutions, a governor who can't recognize the problem, academics driving a cover-up and a populace that is more concerned about the program than the kids.

The NCAA should simply shut down the program. The athletes will find other shools and the students can concentrate on academics.

These are high school students. No affiliation whatsoever with Penn State. And I absolutely promise you, the segment of kids actually bullying this kid represents less than 1% of the high school's total enrollment. The bullies should be expelled. But, just to ease the hysteria... this has absolutely nothing to do with Penn State. Sorry folks.