No. I would not agree. If I’m being insured that everything is being taken care of, or it was looked into. I, as a person who was fed second-hand information (that turned out to be watered down), am not going above my superiors heads at that point. At that point it’s on the witness to go up the ladder. Only he knows what he actually witnessed.
“am not going above my superiors heads at that point. At that point it’s on the witness to go up the ladder. Only he knows what he actually witnessed.”
Not even for a criminal offense?
By your own admission you would not go over your superiors’ heads. By that rationale, the assistant coach didn’t go over his superior’s head. He reported it to Paterno so that he did the right thing, in your opinion. So, you wouldn’t go over your superiors’ heads but it is OK for the assistant coach to go over his superiors’ heads? What kind of twisted logic is that?
Who dropped the ball? The assistant coach? No. Paterno? Yes.
For criminal offenses as severe as child molestation I, had I been the coach of PedState, would go to the top of the food chain immediately, which, in this case, happens to be the campus police...but that’s just me.