Hansen: Jerry Sandusky's abuse made student a victim, then others kept him that way

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20131016/NEWS/131019073/1685#hansen-jerry-sandusky-s-abuse-made-student-a-victim-then-others-kept-him-that-way

By Matthew Hansen

You would think the worst things that happened to Victim No. 1 happened when the man he calls “the monster” trapped him in the basement.

You would assume the severe panic attacks, the suicidal thoughts came solely from the famed football coach slipping into the darkened bedroom again and again.

You would think Victim No. 1's pain, his victimization, started and ended with the man who is now the country's most infamous pedophile.

And yes, that pedophile turned Aaron Fisher into Victim No. 1. But that is not where the story ends, Fisher, his mother and his psychologist told an Omaha audience Tuesday morning.

FULL story at link.

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Enabling monsters because they're a success is in itself

a disease that transcends into all aspects of civilization, not wanting to turn the apple cart .

[gollygee]

2. Rape culture

Enabling rapists and downplaying rape are all part of rape culture. Pedophiles are enabled just like all rapists are.

[brer cat]

3. That is so sad.

That young man was abused by far more than Sandusky. Every official piled it on.

I do hope that some day he can find peace and an escape from being a victim.

[reddread]

4. he would get a sympathetic ear in Omaha

sadly, there is no truth to the idea that being caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy
means anything when absolute power can corrupt, and protect, absolutely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Edwards

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_child_prostitution_ring_allegations

[malaise]

5. Wow!

How sad.

[distantearlywarning]

6. Daisy Coleman too, and many others

Every time, communities in this country side with victimizers instead of victims. It's one of the sickest things about American culture.