...I’m sorry to reply to a posting that is almost a month old, but here’s the thing about this whole situation...it is very unlikely that anybody, whether at PSU, or in the Second Mile, or in the entire law enforcement structure in Centre County acted with any evil intent...I do not believe for one minute that any ‘collusion’ took place to hide Jerry from the authorities, because with so many involved, it would have been exposed in short fashion...no, what the principals in this matter are guilty of, including Joe, is willful ignorance of an ‘inconvenient disturbance’, much in line with the reaction of Bernard Law to the shock of sexual predation in his diocese...just get it out of here, just get it out of here...and then let everything else slide...they let it slide because they weren’t prescient enough to see that this fool Jerry would go on to nearby high school and get caught doing the same thing, which, if he hadn’t so done, everything would still be roses and unicorns at good old PSU...
...and now, we’re left with Schultz and Curley attempting as their defense to parse the diction of what Mike told them, not connecting the obvious dots of ‘an adult male acting innapropriately in a shower with a young boy’...and Curley attempting to tell us he was unaware of the prior Jerry investigation which the local authorities botched...(which is also what Joe testified...sure, Joe, if you say so...)...as I say, these people are not malicious, and they act no differently than many of us would have acted, except that we may hope to have acted more couragously than Mike did...but they were wrong, in the manner that many in history have been wrong, because they thought that rocking the boat was worse than the alternative, telling the truth...
...regarding Joe, not for one minute can anyone convince me that he acted maliciously, nor that he put his legacy above the welfare of the innocent...but instead, went on thinking ‘this too shall pass, after all, tomorrow is another day’, and carried blithely on, up until his dying self asssessment, saying to Posnanski ‘I wish I’d done more’
...an understatement of immense proportion, and in true fashion of Greek tragedy that Joe knew so well, an exsmple of the ‘fatal flaw’ in all of us that can undo our best efforts at virtuous living...
I’m of the opinion that the charges against Curley and Schultz (all of them) will be dropped. Both are very hard to prove cases - with flimsy evidence and a shaky star witness...but that won’t be why they’ll be dropped.
Mike McQueary is on the verge of a nice tidy settlement with the University which will undoubtedly involve a very strict confidentiality agreement. Why go through all that and then turn around and allow him to testify in January?
No - the University and the state - specifically corbett - want the blame just where the media and the pre-determined factfreeh report laid it. At the feet of the football program.
There’s a reason McQueary tried (6 times) to contact freeh and give testimony. There’s also a reason the AG’s office and freeh colluded to agree to not include him in the report (along with anyone else relevant).
Think!