Two things stand out in my mind with the Jerry Sandusky case:
2011 was the year that I joined Twitter, and the first time that I started to pursue and examine news in a more mature and nuanced lens. This mostly had to do with my age, but I think it’s interesting, especially since this is when the story came out.
I remember a lot of people I admire and followed on Twitter at the time posting the Freeh report, and encouraging people to read it to see just how far this went and the horrible things that went on without intervention. I distinctly recall getting to about three pages into it and it just being too much for me. I still haven’t gone back to read it, but that memory sticks with me.
What is most gut-wrenching about reading the coverage is how little was done to put Sandusky to justice before he finally was. This spanned over decades, and no one really did anything. Sandusky was protected in part because he was a public figure. The reporting is comprehensive and takes me back to when I first was reading the story. It is disgusting and terrible, and reading about it again brings up those feelings again.