We had easy access at the time to documentation which I have no ability to access now as to the curious disappearance of the Centre County prosecutor. If he was murdered during his investigation, one would expect greater law enforcement concern and effort.
The report of Louie Freeh who was essentially the CYA counsel to the Board of Trustees in charge of absolving them at taxpayers' expense ($500 per hour or more? and lotsa billable hours). I don't trust Freeh but anything in that report which may be critical of the trustees or exculpatory as to Paterno would be against the wishes of the girls what brung him to this dance and therefore, to that limited extent credible.
There was a lengthy report online of a former trustee who had retired but was seeking election anew and was very detailed. There were many other documents on line at the time. I am giving you my best good faith recollections. If they are wrong, they are wrong. My powers of recollection are not improving as I am approaching 70, the good Lord willing and the crick don't rise.
Anyone who uses the word behoove deserves respect.
If you have documentation, please provide links (something else I am too aged to know how to do). Only documentation can resolve the gulf between our recollections. If I am wrong, it won't be the first time and probably not the last either.
I would also observe that, other than reasonable questions raised by McQueary's disagreements with himself, once Sandusky got the child out of the locker room/shower room and out the door, he and the kid were in the wind. A prompt telephone call to authorities by the timid Mr. McQueary would have prevented that and all the more so if he had kicked the crap out of the vulnerable naked Sandusky which would seem to be called for as a normal hormonal and justice reaction by a man of McQueary's age and status as a former Penn State football player. If McQueary had acted, Sandusky would have been out of circulation then and there and thereby McQueary would have saved the molesting of other kids. Assuming that Paterno was the proper person to report to, by Saturday morning, it was too late to identify the child victim.
If Paterno was the proper person to report to as McQueary's superior, then Curley was the proper person for Paterno to report to as Paterno's superior in the athletic department. Schultz was in charge of the Penn State police, no "titular" about it. The civilian control of campus police guarantees that the campus police will not embarrass the perversion promoting Graham Spaniers of this world by making impolitic arrests. At other campuses and, perhaps, at Penn State, arrests for possession or use of narcotics are not allowed for typical PR and PC reasons. b Civilian control of campus police departments is inherently a source of corruption.
If you have documentation, please provide links (something else I am too aged to know how to do)
...I am every bit as old as you, and have no more online skills than you...
I don’t trust Freeh but anything in that report which may be critical of the trustees or exculpatory as to Paterno would be against the wishes of the girls what brung him to this dance and therefore, to that limited extent credible.
...that’s a matter of opinion...
If McQueary had acted, Sandusky would have been out of circulation then and there and thereby McQueary would have saved the molesting of other kids
...certainly, things would have been much different, and MM has certainly earned his current dark reputation...but, in addition to the natural shock he must have felt at seeing what he took to be molestation, he was walking on eggshells trying to garner a coveted position in the football hierarchy,and taking it upon himself to pummel a revered campus figure probably wouldn’t enhance his resume...perhaps he was so skittish that he was afraid to sneeze without Paterno’s permission...who knows...
then Curley was the proper person for Paterno to report to as Paterno’s superior in the athletic department.
...the delicious irony of that statement is that Paterno hand picked his good friend Curley to replace him as AD...the notion that Paterno in any way ‘reported’ to Curley is, at the least, amusing...