It sure is a relief to know that after 15 years, alleged child molester Jerry Sandusky finally realizes that showering with underage boys is wrong.
In an exclusive interview with Bob Costas for NBC News’ Rock Center airing tonight, Sandusky admitted to showering and horsing around with young boys but said he is not a pedophile.
Pardon the interruption, but Sandusky is most certainly a pedophile.
I guess Sandusky didn’t have that revelation when he was investigated for child sexual abuse in 1998.
Nor did he apparently grasp that being a pedophile is wrong four years later when he got caught by Mike McQueary showering with – and allegedly raping – a 10-year-old boy.
It’s one thing for Sandusky to not understand that showering with kids is bad.
But to continue having trouble getting his fragile little mind wrapped around that even after the police and the district attorney informed him that he was being investigated suggests an obvious compulsive pattern.
Excerpts from the interview with Costas that will air tonight:
“I say that I am innocent of those charges,” said Sandusky in a phone interview with Costas.
When asked by Costas, “Are you a pedophile,” Sandusky responded “No.”
“I could say that I have done some of those things. I have horsed around with kids I have showered after workouts. I have hugged them and I have touched their legs without intent of sexual contact,” said Sandusky.
When pressed by Costas about what Sandusky was willing to concede that he’d done was wrong, Sandusky said, “I shouldn’t have showered with those kids.”
Meanwhile, another interesting development in the case emerged on Monday.
Supposedly, McQueary sent someone an e-mail last week insisting that he “made sure it stopped” when he caught Sandusky with the boy in the shower at Penn State’s football facility.
However, there’s no mention of that in the grand jury indictment. According to page 7 of the indictment, (PDF) it reads that McQueary “left immediately, distraught.”
So if we’re to believe the indictment, and there’s no reason not to, then perhaps McQueary meant that telling his father and then Joe Paterno was his way of making sure it stopped.
We’ll find out in the coming days as more information becomes available.
