travis weaver says jerry sandusky sexually abused him more than 100 times over a period of four years starting in 1992, when he was just 10 years old. he says he thought he was the only boy it happened to until he saw sandusky on the news, arrested on charges he molested other boys. weaver, now 30, had never told a soul, but last fall, he told his family his story for the first time. he says he still feels numb. you don t cry about it now? no. when s the last time you cried about it? a long time ago. stacy, you supervise a sex crimes unit. i looked at it last night and said why hadn t he surfaced sooner? so many of these individuals were content to go on with their lives and never relive the tragedies. well, it s very common in multivictim cases.
only boy it happened to until he saw sandusky on the news, arrested on charges he molested other boys. weaver, now 30, had never told a soul. but last fall he told his family his story for the first time. he says he still feels numb. you don t cry about it now? no. when s the last time you cried about it? a long time ago. stacy, you supervise a sex crimes unit. i looked at it last night and said why hadn t he surfaced sooner? so many of these individuals just were content to go on with their lives and never relive the tragedies. well, it s very common in multi-victim cases. victims subject to pedophiles, the shame and the guilt and the pain that they feel, the embarrassment, the idea someone might call them homosexual, so many factors go into why a
the risk i see relative to the democratic side of the aisle, the president sort of plays into that hand now that there s something to hide and he s caught up in it. how do you assess the politics of what s transpired? well, you re right. it does bring this story into the white house where it hadn t been before. it had been around the neck of eric holder and others. another danger for president obama here is he has tried to put forward this brand of being pro transparency, being the most open government in history. he s gotten a lot of flak from the left about not being as opened as he promised to be and invoking executive privilege doesn t go along with being transparent. there is a danger from republicans not only in distracting from the main message of republicans, but also that sense that maybe we re starting to return to the 1990s when you had things like dan burton shooting a pumpkin to try
in congress blocked it. the bill hadn t changed. the need hadn t changed. the only thing that had changed was politics. clearly appreciative of the president s words and actions, a stark contrast to yesterday when mitt romney addressed the same crowd but with no response to the president s decision and very few details as to what or how he would deal with the question of illegal immigration. i will put in place my own long-term solution that will replace and supersede the president s temporary measure. as president, i won t settle for stop-gap measures. it s that enthusiasm gap that should worry not just mr. romney but other republicans including florida s senator marco rubio and governor rick scott. about two-thirds of swing state latino voters pulled off until
the bill hadn t changed. the need hadn t changed. the only thing that it changed was politics. and i refused to keep looking young people in the eye, deserving young people in the eye and tell them tough luck. the politics is too hard. he didn t say the politics are too hard. he did what he felt was right. because of his core convictions and today president obama reminded voters that. mitt romney has a very different set of convictions. your speaker from yesterday has a different view. in a speech he says when he makes a promise to you, he ll keep it. well he has promised to veto the dream act. we should take him at his word.