[MrEdd]

Re read post four, or the longer wallstreet journal story from yesterday.

Paterno only had a second hand accusation to go on. He wasn’t a witness. He passed what he had heard up the chain of authority to the people who are supposed to look into things like this.

[mewzilla]

Just out of curiosity, and NOT that I recommend it, but have you read the grand jury report?

[OnlyTurkeysHaveLeftWings]

Paterno only had a second hand accusation to go on. He wasn’t a witness. He passed what he had heard up the chain of authority to the people who are supposed to look into things like this.

"Hey Coach Paterno, I saw Coach Sandusky 'subjecting a ten-year-old boy to anal sex in the shower'."

Paterno reported "that the graduate student had seen Jerry Sandusky in the Lasch Building showers fondling or doing something of a sexual nature to a young boy."

Well, a) one of those things is not like the other; b) if you heard that your employee was literally raping a ten-year-old boy would you pass that off as "fondling?"; c) why didn't JoePa ask what the hell a grown-ass man is doing in the showers with a young boy in the FIRST place...

Like, if I heard this from someone under me, I'd be taking me, AND him, AND Coach Sandusky, AND the athletic director, at the very least, and we'd have a sit-down with the cops and get to the bottom of this.

Nah, it's probably nothing, I'll just kick it up the chain of command, it'll work itself out

[lodi90]

“Paterno only had a second hand accusation to go on. He wasn’t a witness.”

This was the second documented PUBLIC accusation of child sex assault that JoePa kicked upstairs and did not follow up on. How much more do we need to know? How much more don’t we know?

Why did JoePa allow this perp around children and young men after multiple accusations of sex assault? No falsely accused man showers again with young boys. He is guilty. JoePa & everyone else at PSU knew that.

The only logically explanation to the inaction is that everyone at Penn State was in CYA mode. Meanwhile, more boys were being assaulted for years.

[NewinTexsas]

Paterno only had a second hand accusation to go on. He wasn’t a witness. He passed what he had heard up the chain of authority to the people who are supposed to look into things like this.

Then all did what they were to do. They passed it up to the PSU (then and current) president and he did nothing. They all saw that nothing happened so it was business as usual. Sandusky is one of our pals and we will let him keep on molesting kids.