COACH SANDUSKY - LOCO PARENTIS GONE LOCO

The Latin term Loco Parentis means “in the place of a parent.” It refers to the legal responsibility of a person or organization to take on some of the functions and responsibilities of a parent. In law it allows institutions such as colleges and schools to act in the best interests of the students, as they see fit, although not allowing what would be considered violations of the students' civil liberties. The coaches at Penn State University, especially Coach Sandusky, were in loco parentis when he sexually abused at least eight boys, as young as ten years old, in the school’s shower. But what he did, and what other coaches and the university president in keeping it from the police, was just plain loco in the Spanish sense of the term, insane. On the matrix below, the axis term is SANDUSKY. The first phrase of interest crossing his name in the open text is PUT PLEASE YOUR HAND UNDER MY THIGH, which in part describes what he asked the boys under his care to do. The second verse of concern crossing his name is NAKEDNESS OF YOUR FATHER …DO NOT UNCOVER. A word for COACH appears at an ELS.