Report: Psychologist Told Police in ‘98 That Sandusky Fit Behavior of ’a Likely Pedophile’
- Posted on March 24, 2012 at 8:26pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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Former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky said he never sexually abused any child and said fired coach Joe Paterno never confronted him about any allegations. (Image source: New York Times)
(AP) — A psychologist who looked into a 1998 allegation against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky told police at the time that his behavior fit the profile of a likely pedophile, NBC News reported Saturday.
Yet Sandusky was not criminally charged, nor placed on a state registry of suspected child abusers, and prosecutors say he continued assaulting boys for more than a decade until his arrest in November.
NBC obtained a copy of the campus police department’s investigatory report on an encounter in which Sandusky was accused of having inappropriate contact with an 11-year-old boy with whom he had showered naked on the Penn State campus.
The police file includes the report of State College psychologist Alycia Chambers, who interviewed and provided counseling to the boy.
“My consultants agree that the incidents meet all of our definitions, based on experience and education, of a likely pedophile’s pattern of building trust and gradual introduction of physical touch, within a context of a `loving,’ `special’ relationship,” Chambers wrote.
However, a second psychologist, John Seasock, concluded that Sandusky had neither assaulted the boy nor fit the profile of a pedophile.
Chambers and Seasock did not immediately return phone messages left at their offices Saturday.
Centre County prosecutors ultimately decided not to charge Sandusky, and the case was closed until a statewide grand jury accused the retired defensive coordinator of abusing the boy and nine others over a 15-year period. Sandusky, who faces more than 50 counts of child sex abuse, has pleaded innocent and awaits trial.
Chambers‘ warning to authorities raises new questions about the university’s failure to stop Sandusky. Eight of the 10 boys were attacked on campus, prosecutors allege.
In 2002, four years after the 1998 investigation, prosecutors say then-graduate assistant Mike McQueary caught Sandusky sexually assaulting a boy in the football showers. McQueary reported what he saw to coach Joe Paterno, who, in turn, reported the allegation to university officials. But no police investigation was ever done.
Penn State said in a statement Saturday that it would not comment, citing ongoing investigations.
Sandusky’s attorney, Joseph Amendola, told The Associated Press on Saturday that Seasock’s report was “exculpable” and that the 1998 incident was not as clear-cut as Chambers made it out to be.
“We could get five psychologists, child psychologists, who specialize maybe in sexual dysfunctions or pedophilia look at the same case and talk to the same people and come up with five different conclusions,” he said in a phone interview.
The 1998 allegation was the first known complaint made to authorities about Sandusky. A woman called the Penn State police department, saying she was troubled after her 11-year-old son told her he had showered naked with Sandusky on campus.
Prosecutors say Sandusky lathered up the boy – known as Victim 6 in the state’s current criminal case – bear-hugged him naked from behind, and picked him up and put his head under the shower. Detectives say that later, with police secretly listening in, Sandusky told the boy’s mother the joint shower had been a mistake, and blurted: “I wish I were dead.”
The woman’s complaint triggered a separate review by the state Department of Public Welfare, which found no indication of abuse by Sandusky.
But state welfare department investigator Jerry Lauro told AP in December that he didn’t have access to the criminal investigative file. On Wednesday, he told The Patriot-News of Harrisburg that he never would have closed the case had he seen the reports from Chambers and the second psychologist, Seasock.
“The course of history could have been changed,” Lauro told the newspaper, which first reported the existence of the twin psychological reports.
“The conclusions (Chambers) had drawn in her report were pretty damaging,” Lauro told the paper. “I would have made a different decision. … It’s unbelievable, and it gets my blood pressure going when I think about it.”
Seasock, who worked with Centre County Office of Children and Youth Services, interviewed the boy for an hour and wrote in his report – also included in the police file obtained by NBC – that he did not find any evidence of “grooming” or “inappropriate sexual behavior” by Sandusky.
“All the interactions reported by (the boy) can be typically defined as normal between a healthy adult and a young adolescent male,” Seasock wrote.
Seasock, however, did not review Chambers’ report or prior interviews with the boy before submitting his own report, the police report indicates, nor did he elicit key details, including the fact that Sandusky had kissed the boy and told him he loved him.
Amendola said that Chambers has refused to talk to the defense, but that he would try anew in light of the NBC report.
“Any argument the commonwealth had about privilege is out the window,” said Amendola. He said he found the timing of the NBC report curious because it came several days after a judge ordered the attorney general to turn over the psychological reports to the defense unless prosecutors could persuade the court they are not subject to disclosure.
Chambers told NBC in an interview that she was horrified to learn that Sandusky allegedly continued assaulting boys long after she warned Penn State authorities about him.
“I was horrified to know that there were so many other innocent boys who had been subject to this, who had their hearts and minds confused, their bodies violated. It’s unspeakable,” she said.
Chambers told NBC her 1998 investigation found “behavior that was consistent with a predator, a male predator, a pedophile.”
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JBARRANCHAZ
Posted on March 26, 2012 at 2:16ampeople that diddle with kids should be destroyed. They cannot be rehabilitated, the cannot be in society with children.
Sandusky has caused untold levels of emotional pain and his only concern was the satisfaction of his own perverse desires.
Funny how the porn-star prom-date got more responses.
Report Post »LoneRanger
Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:49amIf you are concerned about male on male sexual abuse of children, you can see how the liberal left endorses this behavior at http://www.parentsofgaychildren.org/uploads/Pederasty_-_HBO_Weeds_-_episode_1.wmv.
If you are concerned and disgusted, help end censorship in our public library; http://www.endcensorship.com. If you agree children should have the ability to pursue life, liberty and happiness, visit http://www.libertyforchildren.com.
If you have kids, learn how to protect children from homosexuality, http://www.factsaboutyouth.com and http://www.preventhomosexuality.com.
Above all else, stop the indocrination of our children. Vote conservative in 2012.
Report Post »Slowman101
Posted on March 25, 2012 at 12:05pmPenn State obviously knew and did nothing. Syracuse knew about Bernie Fine and did nothing. What a sad tale of indifference. But, when they get caught, they all say how concerned they were, and they did everything they could.
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on March 26, 2012 at 10:25amto: SOLWMAN101: The hidden agenda/system in place for over 100years comveniently and always dissmisses evidence against radicals(etc…), and then if caught cries“we already knew that” and the story will necissarily dissapear, again.
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on March 25, 2012 at 8:05amA psychologist told police?
Did they consult a reader of tea leaves?
Did they cast lots as well?
Or maybe prayed over it and waited for Divine Providence to tell them what to do?
Psychologists should not be directing criminal investigations.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on March 25, 2012 at 10:26amThat’s okay then. Because back then so did our PRESIDENT.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:49pmPsychology leaves much to be desired, but they are no where near witch doctors.
Did you know that many early chemists were also alchemists? Chemistry grew out of alchemy.
I think that a psychiatrist might help you. The only sane thins I saw you post was on the Doheny estate.
Report Post »girlnurse
Posted on March 25, 2012 at 4:48amYea but if you’re wealthy in this country you get a pass. I mean look at the crooks in government, OJ, heck Chris Borwn beat his girlfriend senseless and he’s on the top of the charts already! There are two sets of laws in this country–One for the rich and one for the poor. On the rare chance they do get convicted of anything…The rich get “white collar prisons-while the poor get he** Holes”…it’s just the truth.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on March 25, 2012 at 7:35amhe is typical of what comes out of the gay community
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:24amHe needs to have his skin peeled back in layers and his wife should pick up the droppings and eat them. EEwww, sorry, but this HAS TO STOP!
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on March 25, 2012 at 10:37amMama’s little baby loves ped-phile, ped-phile, Mama’s little baby loves ped-phile strips.
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:22amYes, this has gone back in time throughout the ages, but it is much more prevalent now. It’s insidious. It’s evil. No other word than that. In my little County, just had breaking news regarding Senior Football players sexually assaulting Freshmen players. All in the locker room…no teachers present. Where the hell are the teachers???
Report Post »B_rad
Posted on March 25, 2012 at 9:20amIt’s more prevalent now because children are so much more susceptible to it. When children had intact families, they didn‘t need to search for other adult’s to love them, provide them attention, and show them love. When they had a father to love them, they weren’t so vulnerable. We’ve created a culture where fathers are not necessary, and this is the result.
Report Post »B_rad
Posted on March 25, 2012 at 12:11amWell, color me surprised. The school knew about Sandusky years before McQueary reported what he saw to Paterno. Any bets good old Joe knew about it too? Every single person involved at that school should be brought up on similar charges as Sandusky. They turned their backs and countless more boys were victimized. I‘m glad we’re a civilized society, but sometimes I think there is no punishment the court can give that is sufficient for these monsters. Part of me wants to see them drawn in the public square for all the world to see while someone chops it off with a rusty, dull axe.
Report Post »pschlentz
Posted on March 25, 2012 at 12:59amI’m with you, this is devasting for these innocent boys who were simply looking for someone they could trust. And because of that he was able to take advantage of them.
Report Post »Anyone in that organization that had the slightest idea of what was going on should be hung
in the public square to scare the living CR*P out of anyone that thinks they could do the same!
This whole thing makes my stomach turn…
arx
Posted on March 25, 2012 at 9:27amWhat exactly is “civilized”? A society where monsters roam free to prey on the innocent again and again? A society is civilized when innocent people can let their children play outside and walk to school in safety. What we have no is the entire population of good people living in fear of the animals living among us. Public castrations, canings, and a lot more firing squads would go a long way to “civilizing” our society, in my opinion…not to mention saving us a bundle in tax money.
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