This will never be over. JoePa went to his chain of command and said that their are rumors going around from the young guy saying that the other guy is bonking kids. The upper chain did nothing. If Joe himself saw what was going on then I could see this being a negative, but that kid is the one who should be strung up. He literally saw it and waited 24 hours to go to Joe who then went to his supervisors. I would love to know what that young kid said to Joe. “Oh Joe. I think I was the child molester bonking a kid yesterday in the shower.” Joe said, “You think?” The kid says, “Yes that is what I think was happening.”. Joe said, “Well I am going to the chain of command over this.” Man you guys make something bigger than it was. Everyone keeps saying 10 children but the main point was one and Joe was not even sure it actually happened because the young kid was not positive.
THAT IS A POLICE ISSUE.
IF YOU ARE AWARE OF A CRIME YOU MUST REPORT IT TO THE CORRECT AUTHORITIES.
YOU DO NOT HUDDLE WITH YOUR “BOYS” and decide what is good for the group.
Or are you saying that I can do that with my personal discretion if I saw one of YOUR family members being attacked.... (Oh that wasn’t sexual assault that guy just accidentally grabbed her breast on the subway.. I’ll just ignore it).
Regardless of the chain of events as currently told and morphed, if Mr. Paterno had knowledge of someone he knew and had some measure of control over who did, possibly did, or thought about molesting A young boy, young boys, whatever -—if he did nothing about it except to ‘elevate’ it and demur, when he, as coach and master of the sports domain at PSU who had utter control over the comings and goings and status of people who operate there, then he was complicit.
On something such as egregious as molestation, you don’t accept or ignore ‘rumors’. A decent man would confront and ask, face-to-face. Had he done this, his legacy would be untainted.
The Board of Trustees consists of 48 members, including appointees, elective, ex-officio — blah, blah, blah. Large bodies such as this do not function efficiently until there is an ‘event’ that focuses their attention. Unfortunately when that happens they tend to move in a rapid, knee-jerk fashion.
The Trustees are still floundering. I bet the sole thing that they can agree on is to try to limit the damage to the football program since that ‘bomb’ has already exploded. I don’t have a lot of hope that the investigations are going to get to the bottom of the Sandusky-affair and what I suspect is a much larger hidden problem in State College, PA.
Joe Paterno should have done more. He should have notified child welfare & law enforcement directly. It was a moral failure on his part. He shouldn’t have been fired in the manner he was, but he still should have been fired.
I can’t help wishing that Joe would have taken retirement years ago. A new coach would have rated closer outside supervision. Nobody looked over Joe’s shoulder. He would’t tolerate it.
That Board of Trustees needs to get whittled down to a more manageable size.
Paterno goes to "the Chain of command", and says "Jerry Sandusky has been seen manboy-loving in Penn State showers ..." and finishes.
Option 1: "... investigate this"
Option 2: "... cover this up"
Which option did he choose? we can only go by what subsequently happened.
Joe Paterno could not have taken this complaint anywhere but to his superiors at the university. He didn’t witness anything.
Last year, my daughter was involved in a traffic incident that was not her fault. She told her boss, a vice principal at the local high school about it and the woman told her to report it to the police, just to cover herself. She tried, but the police station didn’t open until 9:00 AM. Later that day, the other girl’s mother called the police and reported. So, the vice principal reported that my daughter told her she had been involved. My daughter got a ticket for hitting the other girl, even though it was not her fault and the evidence was that my daughter had told the vice principal that she had been involved.
The judge had a fit and through it out of court, saying that vice principal and the police officer had no business writing a ticket for something that neither witnessed.