Arena Abuse Scandals in Sports

Come on, no amount of money can make the victims/families whole.

 

It's not about healing. It's about punishing Penn State for the coverup.

 

No, my point is there's not a lot of point to saying xxx is not enough money in the settlement. If you're holding out for enough money to be in the settlement, you will be waiting forever. Forever. You'll never get there.

That type of statement is an easy criticism that is a bit empty to me. I'm a big fan of not letting perfect get in the way of better.

There's also something to be said for allowing victims to turn the page. A settlement, from what I've been told by others in similar cases, helps bring that closure.

 

Ah. Gotcha.

 

No money can make the families whole (and Sandusky's likely going to be spending the remainder of his life in prison, so there likely won't be new trials on the rest of the abuse claims that have popped up since the original ten that Sandusky was charged with), but as you (DarthIntegral) said, in a lot of ways, it's about a sense of closure on this whole mess for a lot of the victims (and in a way @Aytee-Aytee's point about punishing Penn State for covering it up all these years).

 

As a general rule, my problem with settlements (usually when a very rich institution/person is the defendant) is the NDA's that usually come with them and if, say, someone is suing a natural gas company for poisoning their groundwater, there's no trial to establish this fact legally. Often settlements involve the defendant admitting to nothing. That said, my objections don't seem to apply in this case.

 

Yeah, given everything that's come out in this case an NDA would be just about pointless at this point. It would be akin to closing the barn door after all the horses have gotten out, so to speak.

 

I feel very very ill, if this is true.

 

If these newest allegations are true, I'm of the mindset Penn State should be nuked from orbit.

(It's the only way to be sure.)

 

Jerry Sandusky's son charged with child sexual abuse.

 

I do feel Penn State Football got off easy.

 

We'll have to come back and reassess it, if Baylor gets anything from the NCAA for it's rape and cover-up scandal.

 

Ah yes. Many say Baylor is a canadate for the Death . Penalty. How many years i wonder.

 

Given the scope of this compared to Penn State, it definitely should have a far more significant punishment, if not the death penalty, if the NCAA actually decides it wants to get involved in this.

 

Be careful drawing too many parallels between Baylor and Penn State. They are not actually all that similar, from an NCAA-Compliance standpoint. Baylor is actually much worse, from that point of view, believe it or not.

 

Yeah, I've been wondering if perhaps the US Gymnastics needs to be barred from 2020 to send a message about this. I mean I feel sick for the athletes that have already spoken out and would feel even worse for those who are training for 2020, like Simone Biles to have to miss those games as a result, but, you're right heels, there needs to be reform within USA Gymnastics and that cannot happen if the machine that breed this horror is still going for 2020. A message needs to be sent and if Team USA (at least as far as Gymnastics) is absent for an Olympics and isn't the dominate force for a decade or two, then so be it.

 

Beyond that, I wonder if this is the tip of an iceberg, similar to what we've seen in Hollywood.

Edit: And if you shut down USA Gymnastics, you let those athletes complete under the Olympic Flag and attempt to qualify. no reason to punish them.

 

I read about Maroney's testimony this morning. To force a gag order on her on top of everything else is beyond belief. I don't think US Gymnastics should be banned from the Olympics, though. That would punish the athletes more than anyone. But a major house cleaning needs to happen on the coaching and administrative side.

 

They walked the fine threat back when people began tweeting saying they'd be willing to pay the fine for Kayla.

 

And let's not forget Michigan State in all this. There need to be consequences for those involved in covering up for Nassar there too.