It’s not ESPN’s job to report this to the authorities. This is an adult making the claim - he’s the one who should go to the police, which he did and was dismissed.
If ESPN was an eyewitness to molestation, as Coach McQueary claims he was in the Penn State case, that’s a different story.
I realize we get jaded with media charges against Republicans but a news organization is supposed to sit on a story until it can be corroborated, which it sounds like ESPN could not do probably because the police didn’t file a report.
Charges like this are highly prejudicial and hopefully we all remember the damage done to the young athletes in the Duke Lacrosse case. It’s also possible that cases like Duke’s or the Olympic Park bomber are exactly why news organizations shouldn’t be in a headlong rush to spread salacious stories until they can get some independent verification first.
have you heard the tape?
It would seem that the tape, itself, is a “story” all its own.
The woman is vile, repugnant, vulgar, and unbelievably immoral.
Her actions (or inaction) as described on the tape are criminal
Recently the network employed voice recognition experts to verify her voice before releasing this.
I’m not sure why they couldn’t have done the same back in 2002.
others have done similar things before and called it “investigative journalism”