Child abuse and adults who cover up needs to stop-Yeah for the NCAA

In light of the Penn State affairs in the news lately I decided to express my feelings about what is going on and the penalties given to Penn State by the NCAA. My response all came from a status posted on fb this afternoon. I could not just let that go without my comment and now I feel more obliged to share :

Paul and I have been adopting now for over 27 yrs.. Most of our children whom we adopted have suffered greatly under the supposed care of a loving caregiver...either a parent, a foster parent, other family members , orphanage workers and their very own gov'ts.. I have been open about many of the abuses that they have suffered and have seen them overcome much...but there is always a constant feeling of grief, anger and out right disgust that comes from within me when I let myself dwell to much on these adults who prey on children- most of them are never held accountable for their actions and this sin always has a rippling affect. It has caused many issues in the lives of these children and for some they may never get over the harm that was done by a supposedly loving caregiver....

Now when I first heard about Penn State and the Sandusky abuse I was again troubled by yet another story of a "supposed person who really cares " that has abused the trust of the children in his care...not only that he created a group to help and instead we now know the "help" he provided for his own sexual pleasure...disgusting at best and I don't even want to spend more of my words on this monster...but when I read about where it took place and for how long and that the administration of a respected and well run sports machine were aware of it then I am even more disgusted. I am not a football fan at all and my feelings about that are saved for another blog post . I will say though that in America I believe it is a GOD and not one that I believe should be given the amount of hype and money that it does...( all I will share for now).

I shared my feelings on the fb comment and knew I would get some upset. I respect the opinion of the original author and even some of the comments but one was written in capital letters and I felt like they could not respect my opinion as I wish to do with theirs- if shared in a mature way...( again another blog post) . Now for me I feel the sanctions placed upon Penn State were good...I think the bold and strong statement that the NCAA will not tolerate this sexual abuse or the knowledge of it by people who knew and did nothing is what I wanted to hear....I am sorry that the players now will be affected by this sin but that is what happens when there is sin- It ripples out to many other innocent victims. I was even challenged that Joe P did not know about it...my decision was not based on that at all...He should have known as other adult caregivers in my own children's lives should have-and it should have been reported and yes I am outragged about the issue of some did report and nothing was done about - Adults need to make sure someone does something to stop it...This was going on for 14 yrs at least.
  So I am one who feels very good about the message the NCAA sent today with the sanctions given to Penn State...I want my children to know that some do care about child sex abuse and will take a strong stand against even the knowledge of knowing it is happening and do something about it. Amen to the NCAA.