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Was Jerry Sandusky Arrest Delayed?

The meeting of a grand jury in the Jerry Sandusky case was reported in March. Did Joe Paterno’s all-time wins record have anything to do with the time that elapsed until Sandusky’s arrest? We examine.

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The alleged sexual abuse of young boys by Jerry Sandusky is central to perhaps the biggest and most-disturbing college sports scandal of all-time.

However, the timing of Sandusky’s arrest has raised the eyebrows of those who believe that the authorities waited until coach Joe Paterno secured his record-setting 409th win in a 10-7 victory over Illinois on October 29. That’s when he officially passed Eddie Robinson as the all-time winningest coach in Division I history.

One week later on November 5, Sandusky was pinched on 40 criminal counts before being released on $100,000 unsecured bail.

That’s prompted many conspiracy theorists to wonder aloud if the legacy of a football coach – at least in the realm of the record book – was more important than the immediate arrest of an alleged serial pedophile.

So is there some truth to this or are people just searching for another salacious detail to emerge from this sordid tale?

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It’s unclear.

Let’s look at the timeline.

In March of 2011, the Patriot-News – which cited five people familiar with the case – reported that a grand jury had been meeting for 18 months in regards to claims of the sexual assault of a young boy by Sandusky. The newspaper said that both Paterno and athletic director Tim Curley were called to testify.

That report came on the heels of Sandusky retiring in September 2010 from his charity, “,” which he founded in 1977. The charity focused on helping disadvantaged young boys and may have served as a vehicle for the former defensive coordinator to find his alleged victims.

To put it simply, eight months passed from when details of the grand jury’s on-going investigation was reported until Sandusky was taken into custody. But what would be the reason for waiting to nab Sandusky, assuming that the grand jury had finished its report before November 5?

#1: The police intentionally waited for JoePa to break the record. This is for your hard-core conspiracy theorists. They claim that when a reported sexual assault by Sandusky occurred in 2008, then-Attorney General Tom Corbett sat on the case because he knew it would doom his chances of running for Governor of Pennsylvania. He went on to win office and was appointed this past January.

For his part, Corbett told Pennsylvania’s FOX43 that the investigation was moved as quickly as possible for a child-predator case.

“There isn’t any governor in recent memory, to me, in this state that has done more to protect children than me, so if you think I delayed it for any reasons, you’re wrong,” Corbett said, according to the television station.

Conspiracy theorists aren’t so sure.

These same conspiracy theorists believe that the district attorney’s office also delayed arresting Sandusky this year until after Paterno had broken the Division I record – at best for a matter of weeks and at worst a matter of months – because they knew this would overshadow JoePa’s achievement and possibly even lead to his dismissal before he had the mark. This would show just how powerful Paterno was Pennsylvania if even the police delayed an arrest of an accused pedophile to accommodate Paterno, who himself did nothing illegal.

#2: The timing of the arrest was a complete and utter coincidence. Grand jury investigations are incredibly slow and tedious and any suggestion that the police delayed arresting Sandusky and charging athletic director and Tim Curley and administrator Gary Schultz for failing to alert police are fools that don’t understand the legal system. Anyone believes Theory #1 also believes the moon landing was fake and the JFK assassination was an inside job.

It’s just hard for anyone in America to accept coincidence in this case because, let’s face it, all the details surrounding what happened in State College are fishy.

#3: The arrest was delayed by the police, but not because of nefarious reasons. This is the happy medium of Theories #1 and #2. These people believe that the police could have made the arrest a couple weeks earlier but didn’t do so because of the collateral damage that would have been involved.

First of all, the bye week also was the perfect time to conduct such business. If this story would have broke on a Penn State game day – or during a game week, for that matter – it would have sparked even greater chaos.

Imagine what the riots would have looked like in Happy Valley if these arrests happened the week before Paterno tied Robinson’s record and JoePa was fired the day before the record-trying game. Yea, it’s safe to say all hell would have broken loose.

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In the end, this is one of the saddest and most troubling stories of our generation. And because of all the salacious details that have already surfaced, no matter what answers are provided to shed light on why Sandusky’s arrest took so long, skeptics will remain.

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