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Paterno only had a second hand accusation to go on. He wasn’t a witness. He passed what he had heard up the chain of authority to the people who are supposed to look into things like this.

"Hey Coach Paterno, I saw Coach Sandusky 'subjecting a ten-year-old boy to anal sex in the shower'."

Paterno reported "that the graduate student had seen Jerry Sandusky in the Lasch Building showers fondling or doing something of a sexual nature to a young boy."

Well, a) one of those things is not like the other; b) if you heard that your employee was literally raping a ten-year-old boy would you pass that off as "fondling?"; c) why didn't JoePa ask what the hell a grown-ass man is doing in the showers with a young boy in the FIRST place...

Like, if I heard this from someone under me, I'd be taking me, AND him, AND Coach Sandusky, AND the athletic director, at the very least, and we'd have a sit-down with the cops and get to the bottom of this.

Nah, it's probably nothing, I'll just kick it up the chain of command, it'll work itself out

Paterno immediately reported the incident to Curley (the AD) and Schultz (the head of University Police, who are ‘real’ cops). Is the complaint now that he didn’t report it to the ‘right’ police? There was a lengthy grand jury investigation and they didn’t find Paterno at fault for anything. I’m not sure what else you need. The information available is quite detailed.

For the record I do not care for Paterno. While his wife is cheerful and pleasant, Paterno is unfriendly, bitter, and angry. He doesn’t even believe he needs to stop at stop signs (though I can now say that I flipped off and gave a big FU to him). That said, from the available information I believe Joe did the right thing.

Point.

Hadn’t read the grand jury report that Paterno was given so much detail and then downplayed the act.

His legacy will be something different now.

Not me. I'd have grabbed a couple of linebackers and defensive tackles and had them join Sandusky in the shower with them fully clothed.

While this was going on, I'd call the police and tell them Sandusky was sodomizing a ten-year-old boy in the shower.

About ten minutes later, I'd have the players call the paramedics to tell them that Sandusky had apparently fallen in the shower.

When the police showed up and met the paramedics, they'd figure it out.

Let's see if the libs get as upset at Penn State as they do at Catholic Churches; and let's start looking CAREFULLY at *ALL* organizations for "at-risk" kids.

NO cheers, unfortunately.