Adolescence

When watching TV shots of  Jerry Sandusky, I see a man who believes he himself to be a carefree  young ten or twelve year old boy.
He doesn't entertain for one moment the idea that he couldn't think that way if he could be raped
by someone three times his size at the whim of an accoster.
His demeanor has changed, though.
At the start his jaw had the slack look of that of youngsters whose jaw muscles are not completely
developed yet.
He often held his mouth slightly open, the way children sometimes do when the roots of their teeth
are under construction growth spurts
His gait was often the loping stride of boys whose leg and arm muscles have not yet securely and
completely strapped their bones into their joints.
He had a habit of looking around a little bit as if to see if maybe anyone out in the crowd knew him.
After the verdict he seemed to look the way boys do when they believe they really are in trouble.
Their shoulders slump in the 'someone is mad at me now' posture, and their faces show something
that looks like the wary "uh oh" often use to warn themselves.
A little after the initial guilty announcement, the shoulder slump had been modified into something
a little bit more resolute, and the face and jaw were settled into an angrier look.
We say it all the time, but we don't always think of how thoroughly some fail at it: that is,
'grow up'.