Alleged Victim In Sandusky Case Leaves High School Due To Bullying

The first known alleged victim in the Jerry Sandusky case, known as "Victim One" was forced to leave his school because of an onslaught of bullying, The Patriot-News reports.

Mike Gillum, psychologist for the family, told the news source that officials at Central Mountain High School didn't step in and provide guidance to the boy's classmates, who began to blame Joe Paterno's firing on the 17-year-old.

Victim One testified he was forced into multiple sex acts between 2006 and 2008. During that time, Sandusky was also assisting the high school with their varsity football program, the report states.

Gillum told The Patriot News that name-calling and verbal threats at the school, which is located about 30 miles northeast of Pennsylvania State University, became too much for the boy to bear.

The Centre Daily Times wrote the 23-page report by a state grand jury investigation alleges that Sandusky molested at least eight boys over a 15-year period, beginning with "Victim 1." In the report, the victim testifies that Sandusky began a physical relationship with him during sleepovers at his house, where the accused would blow on the boy's bare stomach and crack his back.

The boy later testified that the relationship became sexual, with Sandusky performing oral sex on him more than 20 times, according to the Centre Daily Times.

Former FBI director Louis Freeh was tapped Monday to lead the inquiry into the child sex-abuse allegations, an investigation Freeh says will go as far back as 1975.

The 17-year-old has left the school in the middle of his senior year, and the Keystone Central School District issued a statement to the Centre Daily, saying it would be said "inappropriate” to comment on the case publicly.

The allegations have also led to the removal of long-time football coach Joe Paterno and university President Graham Spanier.

Who's who in the Penn State scandal:

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• Jerry Sandusky

  Following a three-year investigation, the former Penn State player and assistant coach was <a href="http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2011/11/07/grand_jury_presentment_story.aspx" target="_hplink">indicted</a> on Nov. 4 on 40 counts of sexual crimes against male minors that occurred over the span of more than a decade -- the first alleged recorded incident of abuse <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/07/justice/pennsylvania-coach-abuse-timeline/?hpt=ju_c2" target="_hplink">dates back to 1994,</a> and Sandusky was first investigated in 1998.. The allegations have rocked Penn State's storied athletic program to its core, raising questions of who in the program knew what -- and how much -- when.

• Mike McQueary

  <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/colleges/penn_state/133338298.html" target="_hplink">McQueary</a> was a graduate assistant at Penn State when he allegedly witnessed coach Jerry Sandusky sodomizing a 10-year-old boy in a locker room shower. Shocked by what he saw, he reported it to head coach Joe Paterno, who then told Athletic Director Tim Curley and senior vice president Gary Schultz. Ten days after McQueary saw the incident, Curley and Schutlz told him that they were not going to report it to police.

• Joe Paterno

  The famed Nittany Lions coach was allegedly informed of Sandusky's actions in 2002, after which he reported them to Athletic Director Tim Curley. He claims that he did not know the full extent of Sandusky's actions. In a statement, Paterno said that "the fact that someone we thought we knew might have harmed young people to this extent is deeply troubling." Joe Paterno <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/22/joe-paterno-dead-ex-penn-state-football-coach-obit_n_1221946.html" target="_hplink">passed away from lung cancer </a>on Jan. 22, 2012.

• Gary Schultz

  The Daily Collegian reports that Penn State senior vice president for finance and business <a href="http://www.collegian.psu.edu/" target="_hplink">Gary Schultz</a> was known for his family values. However, Schultz allegedly lied to authorities about what he knew in regards to Sandusky's actions, and may have been aware of them for years. He has since resigned from his job. A judge ruled in December that<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/16/tim-curley-gary-schultz-hearing-trial-penn-state_n_1154360.html" target="_hplink"> Schultz and Curley will be tried</a> on charges of lying to a grand jury.

• Tim Curley

  Penn State's athletic director was informed of Sandusky's misdeeds as early as 2002, but maintains that he was not aware of their explicit nature. He has been charged with failure to report and has been put on administrative leave. He claims he is innocent. A judge ruled in December that<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/16/tim-curley-gary-schultz-hearing-trial-penn-state_n_1154360.html" target="_hplink">Gary Schultz and Curley will be tried</a> on charges of lying to a grand jury.

• Graham Spanier

  Penn State President Spanier, left, recently wrote to the Penn State Daily Collegian that he believed he had the best job in American education. Now, students and alumni are <a href="http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2011/11/07/Petition_to_fire_president_spanier.aspx" target="_hplink">calling for him to be fired</a> in the wake of horrific sexual abuse accusations against former coach Jerry Sandusky.

• The Second Mile

  Sandusky's <a href="http://www.thesecondmile.org/" target="_hplink">charity,</a> founded in 1977, allowed him unfettered access to young boys under the guise of selflessness.

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Comments

[DaveNYC]

02:37 PM on 03/06/2012

Playing with an inflatable ball is the most important thing ever. Football should be placed on the highest pedestal possible. Anyone who does anything to interfere with this our holiest of religions should be crucified.

[Berlet98]

01:27 AM on 12/05/2011

I don’t know or care who Jerry Sandusky’s lawyers are but they should either dump him as a client or he should ask them what he should be saying to the press, if anything.

From the point of view of a non-attorney, I would be aghast at a client accused of serial homosexual child-molestation over decades giving interviews to the media. Granted, the interviewers didn’t dare suggest Sandusky was a homosexual pedophile but, still, allowing him to admit to “liking” young children was tantamount to permitting him to concede he was a Michael Jacksonite with similar preferences.

As with Michael Jackson, Jerry Sandusky liked young boys, although the MSM played down that predilection in both instances, preferring in Jackson’s case to present him as a lover of everyone, in Sandusky’s case as paternally affectionate toward boys and girls. Despite Jackson’s universal love and Sandusky’s fatherliness, neither was ever accused of paying inappropriate attention to females.

In both instances, the mainstreamers were engaged in a cover-up of the truth, that the King of Pop and the PSU assistant coach were gay pedophiles. The chief differences between the two seems to be that Jackson was never indicted and had smarter lawyers–but dumb doctors.

The main similarities are that both were delusional.

To the end, Michael Jackson maintained his innocence of molesting young boys while admitting he slept with them and, in at least one instance, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=8910.)

[NextStopWonder]

11:20 AM on 11/29/2011

Ok, so when are we going to start seeing some articles targeted at the parents of BULLIES, instead of just the parents of victims? Every article on bullying is either "Signs Your Child is Being Bullied" or "How To Help a Bullied Child", but where are the "Parents: Get Control of Your Bullying Child" articles? We keep wanting the schools to do more, keep wanting to hold school officials the most accountable, and sure, they share the blame (especially here), but time and time again we completely excuse the most influential force in the life of a bully: the parents. Bullying, victimizing someone who's perceived as being weak, etc.--all of that starts in the home. Even if the parents aren't doing anything (such as physical or verbal abuse) to perpetuate this behavior, not providing proper guidance on how to be a good person is also egregious and damaging. Few kids are 'born bad'; most are raised (or neglected and then become) that way. It's time to start holding parents more accountable for this sort of thing.

[mother10]

01:52 AM on 07/23/2012

excellent

[quirky2go]

09:35 PM on 11/28/2011

I try to have faith in the good in humanity, but than I hear stories like this and that faith is shaken.

[RedDonnaAnn]

08:23 PM on 11/28/2011

Bullying... they learn it at home.

[Darrell L Jones]

07:44 AM on 11/29/2011

I actually disagree with that blanket statement. Nearly 78% of the bullies parents have no clue they are the agressors. At home they are the normal kids with their parents and siblings, at school they are the terror we hear about. I believe this is part of our new age culture of watching all these horrible reality shows that foster girls bashing other girls heads into walls and drinking. We as parents have to know what our children are doing when they are not with us, that is the only way we as parents can prevent this from happening to innocent children. "Am I my brothers keeper", yes in this case.

[RedDonnaAnn]

10:38 AM on 11/29/2011

I hear what you're saying and to some extent agree but I think parents are in denial. I think they do as you say: allow their kids to consume all sorts of violent material. But where this goes wrong is they then fail to monitor what their kids do on the Internet, their phones and while with their friends. You have to do this from day one, you can't start in high school when it's too late.

I think parents let a lot of "things" babysit their kids and fail to realize the impact. I also think parents let a lot of behavior slide that is indicative of bullying when away from them: nasty comments, disobeying, breaking rules. When the kids can get away with it at home they feel they can get away with it in school.

[NextStopWonder]

10:51 AM on 11/29/2011

While media plays a part in this, parents carry the biggest amount of the blame here. Parents know that their kids are rotten; kids don't just switch off bad behavior when they get home or around their parents. If you've raised a spoiled, self-centered, rude, crude, monster of a child, and they're that way at home, guess what--they're like that at school. Parents just don't want to believe that their kids are bullies.

[suzilight]

06:13 PM on 11/28/2011

How was the identity of victim 1 known? His name did not appear in the grand jury report. Why was this child's right to privacy taken away? My heart breaks that this child is still suffering for the criminal acts of this horrid man.

[TurnToTheLeft]

05:18 PM on 11/28/2011

This is horrible. The High School Administration should be held accountable.

[mariamar]

03:44 PM on 11/28/2011

When the child is abused and dont talk he or she will become abusers as well in their time, because of the anger and more future kids damage.

[BurrRobson]

05:27 PM on 11/29/2011

This is one of the MOST IGNORANT posts I've ever read. I was badly abused as a child; I had no support or help. The result is that I have NEVER repeated the abuse. I raised two sons who are now adults and have never known the pain and suffering I endured. I made a decision to break the cycle. And I did. However, in my life I've run across people like Mariamar who make ignorant statements to me, assuming I am an abuser because of my past. Let me tell Miriamar what I've told others: My life has been rough but I've broken the cycle of abuse and ignorance about it. Blanket assumptions such as you have made are harmful as well as prejudicial. Shame on you; by your assumptions you are re-abusing.

[mariamar]

03:14 PM on 11/28/2011

Money will make this case CNN everyday for we don't know how long. Then walk free.
I can not understand the system. When people go to file a complain at the police station, this is what they said. We can no get involved on that. When child Services, this is what they said. Do you have proof? Social workers ( man, that what the system works). The system is obsolete. We need to do something to MAKE THE SYSTEM WORKS now. Not from 100 years, come on !!!
Listen, take reports and investigate. Dont wait until the car smashes the pedestrian to put a Stop sign there.

[mariamar]

03:03 PM on 11/28/2011

Obviosly, Now the money will make the system works really good. How many of those are out walking and destroying children. Not only out there, but in ther own families. How many are quiet and silence because of selfstim and because shame on them. Parents watch out for your children, bothers watch out for your brothers, sisters watch out for your sisters. Uncles, cousins B careful. Wives watch out for your children. Mostly starting from home. Dont leave your kid alone. Because of the FIGURE whatever it be you trust? NO TRUST NOBODY , "TRUST JESUS", Who will proctect your child no matter where or from who. Femenine Liberation has made the kids be in hands of somebody who may abuse your child. B there until you child can talk and defend him or herself and counseled.

[Darr Sandberg]

06:13 PM on 11/28/2011

"Femenine Liberation has made the kids be in hands of somebody who may abuse your child."

No. There is no correlation between civil equality for women, and sexual predators who target children.

[notIvy431]

05:33 PM on 11/29/2011

You make some points, Feminine Liberation has nothing to do with it however. I have to say, if you want people to understand your opinions and look at you as intelligent, learn some grammar and use spell check at least.

[Njeanous]

01:39 PM on 11/28/2011

Sandusky is a sinister cloak and dagger pedafile who should turn himself in and be locked up and forgotten. The pointed k-nine teeth should have been a clue.

[szyslak2]

11:09 AM on 11/28/2011

It's appalling that so many are still defending Paterno and Sandusky. That culture is absolutely rotten. I can only take solace in the fact that the only thing they care about got stomped this weekend 45-7.

[Pup99]

11:04 AM on 11/28/2011

Penn. must be really proud of the way their kids back Papa Joe and Sandusky. One a child rapist, and the other a "man" unwilling to follow up to see that justice is done.

[maria52]

06:28 PM on 11/28/2011

The whole thing is utterly appalling... well, I guess the FBI is investigating now.,......

[Savage Saint Roger]

03:52 AM on 11/28/2011

Apparently Sandusky is just the tip of the iceburg in that town. The school has been negligent from the beginning. That principle and guidance counselor should see charges brought against them as well.
There is an even bigger darker secret there in football paradise. Clearly Sandusky wasn't worried about being caught, ever. He moved too freely and obviously knew that he couldn't be turned in.
Too many adults turning blind eyes usually means that too many adults already knew what was going on.

[hursh 4 ever]

10:14 PM on 11/27/2011

I can't believe this story... it seems too unbelievable... so does this mean that the people that who were picking on the victims have some kind of rape fantasies and are sorry the rapings ended??

this is extremely alarming.