Jerry Sandusky, 80, the former Penn State assistant football coach and founder of the Second Mile charity, is in prison for something which I believe he has not done.
In 2011, Sandusky, 68, was accused of abusing ten men when they were youths. None of the accusers ever mentioned any abuse while it was allegedly happening. Sandusky was found guilty in 2012 and sentenced to 30-60 years.
One of the accusers, “victim #5,” was Michal Kajak, now 35.
Grand Jury Testimony
In 2011, Michal Kajak, then 22, testified before a Pennsylvania grand jury that Sandusky took him to Penn State to work out when he was nine or ten years old. After working out, Sandusky took him into the sauna and then the showers.
While showering, Kajak told the grand jury that he looked over his shoulder and saw Sandusky looking at him with an erection, which he “did not understand the significance of this at the time.”
The grand jury presentment reads:
“The next thing he knew, Sandusky’s body touched (Kajak) from behind, and Sandusky was rubbing (Kajak’s) arms and shoulders. (Kajak) crept forward… Sandusky “pinned” Kajak against a wall, then took his hand and “placed it on his erect penis. Kajak was “extremely uncomfortable and pulled his hand away and slid by Sandusky… walked out of the shower and dried himself off and got dressed. Sandusky never touched him again.”
Kajak’s Civil Lawyer
In contemplation of a civil lawsuit, Kajak retained the man who many say is Pennsylvania’s most successful civil litigation attorney.
The National Law Journal listed Thomas R. Kline among “Ten of America’s Top Litigators” and Super Lawyers selected him as the #1 attorney among 64,000 Pennsylvania lawyers year after year.
Kline became rich with big-money verdicts, including the Johnson & Johnson/Risperdal litigation, where he won an $8 billion verdict for his clients and himself.
As chairman of the Federal Judicial Nominating Commission for the Federal Courts in Pennsylvania, Kline decided who would become a federal judge.
He donated more than $50 million to law schools, including the Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Drexel University, the Thomas R. Kline Institute for Trial Advocacy, the Thomas R. Kline Center for Judicial Education, and the Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Duquesne University.
The arrangement Kajak made was that Kline would collect a percentage of whatever he got for Kajak. The usual fee split on contingency cases is 33-40 percent for the lawyer and the rest for the client.
Penn State’s Generous Plan
From Philadelphia to Pittsburg, civil lawyers knew that wealthy real estate developer Ira Lubert was the Penn State trustee in charge of settling claims from men who said they were abused by Sandusky at Penn State.
Lubert made it clear to lawyers in the know that he had three criteria for determining how much Penn State would pay:
- The political clout of the lawyer.
- Whether the alleged abuse occurred before or after Feb 9, 2001. The date coincided with what prosecutors finally decided was the date Penn State graduate assistant Mike McQueary alleged he saw Sandusky in the Penn State locker room molesting an unknown 10-year-old boy (not Kajak). The reason for choosing to pay a lot more money to men who claimed they were abused after this date is that prosecutors alleged inaction by head coach Joe Paterno and his superiors, the athletic director, Tim Curley, the vice president Gary Shultz and the president of Penn State, Graham Spanier. These men were alleged to have covered up the abuse and thus enabled Sandusky to continue his alleged abuse, thus allegedly endangering children after that date. Those who alleged abuse after February 9, 2001, would be likely to get millions, while those abused before might get something in the hundreds of thousands.
- The final criterion was the severity of the abuse. There were three categories of abuse:
The lowest was: Unlawful contact/corruption/endangerment of minors
The intermediate was: Indecent assault
The most severe was: Involuntary deviate sexual intercourse (which included anal rape and fellatio.)
Of course, all payments were contingent on Sandusky’s conviction, which all agreed was a forgone conclusion.
Kajak’s Date Problem
While Kajak selected the attorney with the most significant clout in the state, he had told the grand jury he was abused as a nine or ten-year-old sometime around 1998.
He was destined to be among the lower-paid victims, since this was years before the February 9, 2001 date when Penn State had multi-million-dollar liability.
Kajak had the right lawyer, but the wrong date.
Change of Date
In June 2012, the criminal trial of Jerry Sandusky began and ended. Among the eight men who testified Sandusky abused them was Kajak, now 23.
He testified about the shower incident he had previously said occurred around 1998 when he was nine or ten, except he changed the date to late summer of 2001, six months after the date that made financial claims worth millions of dollars.
The change to 2001 made Kajak no longer nine or 10, but 13 when it allegedly happened.
Testimony
Kajak testified about the shower incident as he brushed away tears and used a tissue.
He said Sandusky “threw some soap at me and started lathering my shoulders. I crept forward… I felt his body on my back. I kept lurching forward… I just felt his penis on my back. I kind of turned away and … he touched my genitalia. And then he took my hand and he placed it on his. That was – I don’t know how long that was, but I was able to just run around the corner and get away.”
He also said of Sandusky, “I noticed that his penis was enlarged but I didn’t understand the significance of it back then.”
The story of his naivete made more sense when Kajak said he was nine or 10. He was the rare 13-year-old boy who did not know what an erection was.
Kajak Explains Change of Date
During the trial cross-examination, Kajak admitted he told the grand jury the shower incident occurred around 1998 when he was 9-10 years old. However, he explained the reason for the change was that he sat down to think, possibly with a person or persons unknown, and compared the dates to other events, like September 11, 2001.
He was now confident that the incident occurred in the late summer of 2001.
Conviction of Sandusky
The jury convicted Sandusky of 45 of 48 charges.
There were four charges prosecutors brought related to Kajak:
- Unlawful contact with minors
- Corruption of minors
- Endangering the welfare of children
- Indecent assault
The jury found Sandusky guilty of the first three. However, jurors did not believe Kajak’s shower story and acquitted Sandusky of indecent assault.
Kajak Lawsuit
Undaunted by the acquittal on the most severe offense against his client, attorney Kline filed paperwork for settlement with Penn State a month after the verdict.
The shower incident ruined Kajak’s whole life, Kline wrote.
Though Kajak graduated from Penn State (yes, he attended Penn State even after the abuse he said that ruined his life) with a business degree in 2010 – one year before he told anyone about the abuse .
At the time he filed his claim, Kajak was gainfully employed as a manager and product analyst for Wayne Automation, a company that specializes in creating automated packaging machinery for industries.
But the intake form filed with Penn State said Kajak suffered from fear, anxiety, flashbacks, shock, depression, nightmares, sleeplessness, embarrassment, and guilt.
Life ‘Ruined’
His attorney arranged for Kajak to see Dr. Joseph Cohen, a psychologist specializing in helping lawyers prove their clients’ claims. Dr. Cohen met Kajak twice and evidently repeated everything Kajak told him in justifying a diagnosis of PTSD.
Kajak told Dr. Cohen he had many symptoms arising from the shower incident, including
- feeling like it was actually happening again,
- breaking out in a cold sweat almost every day,
- avoiding people,
- having memory issues regarding the incident,
- not participating in essential activities,
- feeling numb,
- insomnia,
- irritability,
- anger issues,
- being jumpy,
- thinking he will get cancer,
- thinking himself as deformed,
- and being a drunk.
With his “egg-shell” personality, Dr. Cohen concluded Kajak will require therapy from a qualified professional such as himself “for many years.”
Speech at Sentencing
Kajak spoke at Sandusky’s sentencing.
Kajak told the judge he will never forget the image of Sandusky “forcing my hand on him.”
Kajak added that Sandusky’s punishment “will never erase what he did to me” and that any punishment the judge gave him “will never make me whole.”
“He must pay for his crimes, take into account the tears, the pain, the private anguish,” the avenger said.
Judge Cleland sentenced Sandusky to 30-60 years in October 2012.
Kajak Changes Story to Rape
As settlement discussions went on between Penn State and Kajak’s attorney, they realized that though he had changed the date, the abuse was not nearly as severe as some other tellers of tales of abuse.
After all, it was just one touch of an erect penis by the hand of a 13-year-old who didn’t even know what an erection meant.
That’s when Kajak suddenly “remembered” that Sandusky did more. He told his lawyer (or his lawyer told him) and attorney Kline filed the paperwork with Penn State that claimed Sandusky “pushed Michal against the shower wall, penetrated Michal, and sodomized him.”
Now, it was not indecent assault. It was involuntary deviate sexual intercourse.
Kajak had hit all three of Ira Lubert’s requirements – the right lawyer, the right date, and the right severity.
On September 4, 2013, Penn State settled Kajak’s claim for $8.1 million without deposing him or having a psychiatrist examine him for possibly making up this entire story.
Retrospect
At the sentencing, Kajak said any punishment the judge gave Sandusky “will never make me whole.”
And yet, judging from his social media posts, Kajak made a remarkable recovery after collecting his share of the $8.1 million.
He drowned his grief in sports cars.
And a nice house.
Fine cuisine
And fun at the beach.
It has been tough for the millionaire grifter indeed.
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I’ve known Jerry Sandusky for 70 years. We grew up playing baseball as both teammates and competitors at different ages. His father was one of my managers. Jerry is and always has been a genuine Christian, not just in name but living his life as one. I’ve never heard him utter a curse word, not even as much as damn or hell. There is no way he could even think of, let alone commit, the crimes for which he was falsely convicted.God bless you for what you are doing, Frank; don’t stop until the REAL criminals, Jerry’s accusers and prosecutors, are convicted and imprisoned. I only wish you could have done this 10 years ago. But, better late than never. Upward and onward.
Gary – we have only just begun. Ultimately, the criminals will be behind bars, and Jerry will be freed.
Would you wager on that Frank? He has no balls I mean you. I will admit to vandalizing Jerry’s house window if you bet me.
Your terms of the wager are a little indistinct. But yes.
Miss Dusky took out some of her frustrations on unsuspecting reporters who were trying to do a report near the Sanduskys’ driveway.Brennan told Pittsburgh’s WKST-FM 96.1 that Sandusky’s wife “revved her engine at us before she came flying up the hill into her driveway.”
‘I locked eyes with her and she gunned it’: Moment Jerry Sandusky’s wife almost ran over reporter live on airMoment-Jerry-Sanduskys-wife-Dottie-ran-reporter–Video.html
Why would I need a lawyer when I did nothing wrong. jerry-sandusky-wife-reporter-car-video
Unless you knew him when you were a child and he was an adult, your opinion of whether he would do such a thing is irrelevant. Pedophiles commonly hide in plain sight. They don’t look and act like the monsters they are otherwise they’d never be able to get away with it. Jerry fits the classic profile of a pedophile in every way, from finding numerous ways to surround himself and be alone with children to showering them with attention, affection, and gifts.
Thank you Frank for your clear and concise accounts of all the real criminals in the Sandusky matter.
Prison. Also, maybe we need to pay these people better.Go Kojak go lol. As mayor of this scandal we will have our summer pig roast please bring your own bottle. Weather may play a factor in the date.
Kajak recovered his memory. This happens. Don’t mean hes lying.
This DOES NOT happen. Horrific events are not forgotten unless accompanied by a traumatic brain injury. Instead, they are impossible to forget. Kajak is acting and lying.
But you are a expert in everyones mind but your own. Only if but your mother right?
Recovered memory theory has been totally debunked as fallacy by the American Psychological Association and courts of law around the nation. It’s creator, Sigmund Freud, eventually refuted its legitimacy as well.
I grew up with Jerry in Washington. PA, mostly in athletics, as competitors, occasionally as team mates. Jerry’s dad Art was a human god to growing boys in our community.
When I learned of Second Mile my thought was that his family tradition of guiding boys to adulthood is continuing through Jerry. God bless both Jerry and Dottie for their strength and belief in God. What they both are living through today will undoubtedly be a positive historical marker tomorrow.
I am more encouraged than ever that truth will soon prevail.
Much of the encouragement centers on Frank Parlato. Frank is a literal pitbull investigative reporter from Niagara Falls/Buffalo . He is a focused investigator, and as we can see, writes his findings clearly and convincingly. Having owned and operated two area newspapers, and his Frank Report is growing readership very rapidly, he knows the media workings well. As we know he broke the NXIVM and DOS scandal in the same fashion he is pursuing Jerry’s innocence, like a pitbull dog. I suspect with good reason that the legal corrupters who railroaded Jerry are growing more uneasy by the day, as are the trustees at PSU.
Take your Booster and move along. Jerry is right where he needs to be. Take one for the team. [redacted]
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I personally believe that V6 sister has a lot to do with the case…
I so agree and his Mother
His life may be ruined if Jerry is granted a new trial!!
The change in date is undeniable.
Lives and careers sacrificed by greed of court actors
These so-called ‘victims’ infuriate me but Lubert and the board of trustees …. I don’t have words for those ………….! Cowardice IDIOTS!
This liar sure knows how to live after all of his ‘trauma.’ The Glenlivet, etc. He is a lying disgusting POS. Going from 9 years of age to 13 (ha ha) and then he just ‘remembered’ being sodomized ….. totally laughable. These degenerates need to be called out immediately. And to think people ACTUALLY BELIEVE these lying bastards………incomprehensible.
In case you missed it, he doesn’t drink the usual 12 year old single malt scotch, no-no-no! He’s got the really good stuff. The 18 year old Glenlivet. Next time you go into a liquor store, check out the price for the good stuff but he can now afford it. It pays to be a victim.
Didn’t notice the year. That’s the only kind my husband drinks…..yep, he buys the REAL GOOD stuff!
I had to laugh at the cars, the garage, and the Glenlivet…he’s quite the braggart. While I can certainly appreciate (from a distance) a great single malt, my go to is Famous Grouse which is probably the cheapest Scotch in the liquor store.
I never tried the 18-year-old bottle but I sure as heck would never spend that money. I can appreciate it from a GREAT distance.
Bro, every post you make is about you claiming to have some hard evidence. But you never post any thing about the missing DA
What some facts bring to bear:
May 1998 Sandusky wrestles “to pin” boy in locker room; kisses his head; “I love you” he says; showering he bear hugs him, says “I’m gonna squeeze your guts out”; lastly he lifts the boy high “to get the soap out”; boy departs feeling weird & uncomfortable.
Boy’s mom eventually confronts Sandusky; says “contact with genitals” crosses the line; to which Sandusky replies, “I was wrong. I wish I could get forgiveness. I wish I were dead.”
Sandusky seems aware his conduct around children is not welcomed.
June 1998 Sandusky is talked to by Univ. Police & Public Welfare; cops to May’s shower incident; promises not to do it again; is “emotional” & expresses concern of how he may have adversely affected the child.
Again Sandusky seems aware how his conduct may be interpreted but he’ll continue.
November 2000, another inappropriate shower scene where Sandusky is observed by janitor 1; then observed by janitor 2 “holding hands” with the boy while leaving that night.
February 2001, another inappropriate shower scene where Sandusky is observed by McQueary.
March 2001 Athletic Director Curley meets w/ Sandusky; says folks are “uncomfortable”, to “stop”; 2nd Mile Exec. meets w/ him & reiterates Curley’s relayed warning – now “prohibited” from showers & locker rooms but according to Sandusky no other restrictions apply.
Nearly ten years later Sandusky is arrested.
What happened over that ten year period is contested but Sandusky’s conduct is not so easily explained by anything I’ve heard on this platform.
>Boy’s mom eventually confronts Sandusky; says “contact with genitals” crosses the line;
Not accurate. You are talking about a police ‘sting’ operation where the police were waiting for Sandusky.
The Mom did not say ‘genitals’. She said Jerry Sandusky is not allowed to take the kid to games etc anymore. Sandusky had got involved at her request because kid had no dad and had cancer.
It may be more likely Sandusky said something like “I wish he had a Dad” or “I wish I was his Dad.”
The thing the kid did say to his Mom, which is quoted in Social work reports, is “How can he say he loves me when you’re still married to Dad?”
Where do you get all this talk about ‘genitals.’ Does not exist. Fortunately people like FP are hard-working and find actual quotes.
After May’s shower incident the mother first contacted State College shrink Alycia Chambers who assured her she wasn’t “overreacting” before filing the police report which was ultimately dropped.
During Sandusky’s May confrontation with the mother:
“The officers heard the mother ask Sandusky about the bear hug in the shower, and whether his “private parts” touched the boy while they hugged. Sandusky said “ I don’t think so…maybe.”
For the record I think Sandusky is very probably not guilty of the totality of his convictions.
Sandusky is repeatedly reprimanded for conduct unwanted & repeatedly Sandusky seems to express remorse & understanding of how his conduct may be harmful.
But he continues to insert himself in the same situations [i.e. contact, showers].
Even after Sandusky on record expresses regret over the same behavior: “I was wrong. I wish I could get forgiveness. I wish I were dead.”
All I’m saying is Sandusky’s conduct isn’t so easily explained by anything I’ve read on this platform.
Exactly. I agree it’s highly possible there are some opportunistic false accusers involved after the fact. But that doesn’t change the basic facts that on numerous occasions Jerry was accused by separate individuals who had no knowledge of the others’ accusations of inappropriate behavior with children. And that even after he was specifically warned not to shower with children, he continued to do so. Alone and naked. By his own admission. None of his cheerleaders here ever have an answer for that.
I already replied to this,but, just as another comment. It was the police who told the mom of v6 that Sandusky was a suspect. Not only did she not say ‘genitals’, at no time did anyone, not the kid, not the prosecutors, ever accuse Sandusky of anything sexual at all regarding victim 6. It was never thought that he did anything inappropriate physically. The jury convicted Sandusky of ‘grooming’ which means trying to get emotionally close to a kid for a purpose of abuse later, even if that abuse never took place. The jury was willling to validate the assumption that there would have been planned abuse in the future which had never begun yet in all the time the two spent together.
I already replied twice, but do you see the pattern here? WIth v6 it is “for all we know, Sandusky MIGHT HAVE been plannig to abuse the kid, even though no one ever accused him of anything physically in appropriate with that kid.
With Kajak, v5, it is so clear that the first witness statement would have been generated by police saying, “for all we know Sandusky MIGHT HAVE been trying to put your hand on his privates, except for the fact that you were facing away and pulling and pulled your hand out of his and twisted away and walked away.”
With Calhoun it is “for all we know, the unidentified perpetrator whom Calhoun reported seeing MIGHT HAVE been Sandusky, as the person was unidentified.
All the *convictions* are convicting Sandusky of “might have been” “could have been” “would have been” events which were later proven not to have occurred at all. But even at the time were presented as possibilities where the jury had to weigh up the circumstantial evidence against the mountain of OTHER circumstantial evidence.
But, when there was a proven 1-800 tip line in the newspaper, and more than 600 Second Mile participants interviewd, the only surprising thing is that there were not MORE “might have, could have, woulld have” types of accusations.
J., I am not tracking. What is hard to understand?
The document is written by Sandusky’s lawyers, arguing for ineffective counsel, which the court ultimately denied, rightfully or wrongfully so, I believe.
The janitor incident has gotten convoluted but accepted is one or more than one janitor witnessed Sandusky in a similar pattern of conduct around children.
“Not so easily explained by anything?” What are you talking about. It is as clear as can be. There was never, ever, in any way ever was any abuse of anyone.
It might be the night Gricar was watching since prior having knowledge of other shower reports.
I can’t trace the document but if it’s another of Sandusky’s petition for retrial it needs scrutiny.
I reiterate I think Sandusky very probably got railroaded to some degree.
It’s his pattern around children is disturbing.
After repeated reprimands for unwanted contact & repeated remorse for how his conduct may be harmful:
“I was wrong. I wish I could get forgiveness. I wish I were dead.”
“Emotional”, concerned how he may have adversely affected the child from May 98’s meet w/ State College police & Child Welfare reps.
…Sandusky continues to insert himself in the same situations [i.e. physical contact, showers, aloneness] suggests compulsion & his behavior is not so easily explained by anything I’ve read here.
It’s not that complicated. State College native and Penn State alum Jonathan Frakes explains exactly how it all went down in less than 1 minute: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ioGoPOAxkCg
prove it Flakes
Can’t prove a negative (that something didn’t happen), which is what made this scam easy to pull off. Can prove a positive (that something did happen) with a combination of physical evidence, contemporaneos reports, corroboration, etc. Here there is zero evidence, just made up stories by frauds and scam artists looking for a payday. Given the sheer number of (ever changing) accusations, with no such evidence, the only conclusion any rationale person with a single functioning brain cell could make, is that it was all made up.
There is a mountain of evidence. Why on earth would McQueary or the janitor make this stuff up? And then not go to any authorities with it? They clearly did NOT want to rock the boat so why make it up at all? Makes no sense. None of the idea that this was all a big conspiracy to bring Jerry down or bring Joe down or Graham Spanier or anyone else makes any sense. Who knew Joe wouldn’t go straight to the state police with what he heard? Who knew Spanier or Curley or Schultz wouldn’t? Pretty shaky grounds to try and bring them down with. Why would Jerry continue to shower naked with boys after coming within a razors edge of getting arrested for it? And then just purely coincidentally an assistant coach fabricates a tale that he was molesting boys in the shower? What are the odds? Poor old unlucky Jerry.
Yes, he showered in communal showers aftet working out, which means nothing. If that causes you to imagine made up scenes of child sex abuse, you are one sick individual who should be investigated, just like McQuery and the PA prosecuters and judges who are the proven sex freak in the case.
Kajak did indeed change his story to “be whatever the attorney needed it to be to maximize his dollar intake.” As Frank has pointed out in the past, NONE, of the alleged victims told a story and stuck with that story. They all needed the “help” of an attorney to get the story in the sweet spot of the claim value. Ira must not have realized that one day his checklist would be figured out. Oops!
Wow you tore this liar apart.
Not much He has zero. Kojac was bald