re: OFFICIAL PSU-Sandusky Thread -- NYT reporting JoPa on way out soon

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Is that a still from the instructional LB video featuring one of the victims?

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God damnit...call me a pussy..but all I want to do is put my face down on a pillow and cry after listening to what that monster did to those children

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WDE24

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"It's like winning a football game, even sometimes like winning a championship," Sandusky said Thursday of what it feels like to help kids like Joshua Sinisi.

Sinisi, an Altoona native, was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder in first grade, Sinisi's mom, Marianne, said. A doctor referred them to The Second Mile, she said. Sinisi and his brother, Shawn, now 18, attended The Second Mile Camp.

"He provided an enormous amount of time and effort into making sure I grew up into the successful young man I am today," Sinisi wrote in an e-mail. "He and The Second Mile have helped me learn to become a team player in life, goals, activities, and everyday challenges."

Sinisi, 22, who went to work in the corporate office of Dick's Sporting Goods after an internship with the company, credits Sandusky with teaching him to overcome challenges in life and among a long list of attributes, called his mentor "kind, loving, caring, generous, strong, positive, successful."

"He taught me to be strong and never let anything [or anyone] stand in my way between what I wanted," he said. "He and The Second Mile made me realize that having a disability is actually very normal and everyone is the way they are for a reason and that I was special to him and my family."

Marianne Sinisi said Sandusky made her son feel important and capable.

"He's an amazing man," she said.

She praises who her son who recently graduated with a Pittsburgh Technical Institute with a degree in information technology - network security and computer forensics.

"I couldn't be prouder of the kid - to overcome everything that he did," she said.

From homework help to checking-in phone calls, Sandusky was there for Sinisi over the years.

"Jerry is the definition of 'a great man.' Whatever you ask him to do or be there for you, he will do it without any hesitation," Sinisi said. "Jerry is, well, Jerry - one of a kind."

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