"While Arrows’ corporate entity was based out of Texas, they had deep ties to Pennsylvania and likely Sandusky. Arrow’s founder grew up in PA, and there is a PA-based organization under the umbrella corporation in Texas. Arrow was founded in 1992 by Mark Tennant, who is a hometown PA boy. Tennant grew up in Washington PA (Birthplace of Sandusky, what are the chances?), was abused as a child by his mother’s live-in boyfriend, and was then relocated to Bedford PA with a foster family only to eventually be adopted (sound familiar?). Lastly, but importantly, Arrow reported that it received 96% of its income in 2011 from state and county welfare agencies. Thus Arrow knew PA state and county agencies, and the people running them well."
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"The programs operated by Arrow demonstrate a strong synergy with existing programs of The Second Mile, including summer camps…”
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"The summer camps at TSM were Sandusky’s grooming grounds. Almost all of his victims were brought to the summer camps, in a likely attempt to assess their boundaries. Yet the organization was chosen specifically because it had a “synergy” with these ‘hunting grounds’ of Sandusky’s."
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Factfinder2 ago
Very interesting research on the Sandusky-Arrow connection: https://no1lion99.wordpress.com/2016/04/15/straight-as-an-arrow-child-and-family-ministries/ http://archive.is/wE55q
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"While Arrows’ corporate entity was based out of Texas, they had deep ties to Pennsylvania and likely Sandusky. Arrow’s founder grew up in PA, and there is a PA-based organization under the umbrella corporation in Texas. Arrow was founded in 1992 by Mark Tennant, who is a hometown PA boy. Tennant grew up in Washington PA (Birthplace of Sandusky, what are the chances?), was abused as a child by his mother’s live-in boyfriend, and was then relocated to Bedford PA with a foster family only to eventually be adopted (sound familiar?). Lastly, but importantly, Arrow reported that it received 96% of its income in 2011 from state and county welfare agencies. Thus Arrow knew PA state and county agencies, and the people running them well."
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"The programs operated by Arrow demonstrate a strong synergy with existing programs of The Second Mile, including summer camps…”
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"The summer camps at TSM were Sandusky’s grooming grounds. Almost all of his victims were brought to the summer camps, in a likely attempt to assess their boundaries. Yet the organization was chosen specifically because it had a “synergy” with these ‘hunting grounds’ of Sandusky’s."