This, even though the graduate assistant spoke with JoePa in person, met with Curley and Shultz in person, and received a call from Curley, all about the rape?
Sounds like a . . . really thorough investigation by Penn State.
9:30 p.m. The graduate assistant, who knows Sandusky, goes to put some new sneakers in his locker and pick up recruiting tapes. He hears rhythmic slapping sounds that he believes are of a sexual nature. He finds a naked ten-year-old boy and a naked Sandusky in a shower stall. The boy has his hands against the wall and is being anally raped by Sandusky. The boy and Sandusky see him. The graduate student calls his father from the building. He father says "come home." I don't know how late it is, but the two decide that Joe Pa needs to know, promptly.
The graduate assistant calls JoePa the next morning and goes to JoePa's home.
Am I to understand from the above posts that JoePa already knows this guy molests kids?
Joe Pa hears the story - we don't know exactly what JoePa is told.
JoePa waits until the next day to call the AD, Curley, and says Sandusky was fondling or doing something of a sexual nature to a boy. Somehow, it appears the word "anally raping" are lost in translation. If the graduate assistant spoke of rhythmic anal rape, the JoePa lost something in translating that to fondling.
Curley and Schultz wait a week and a half to contact the graduate student. They met. The grad student says he told them "anal rape."
A couple of weeks later, Curley calls the grad student and says "we've taken away Sandusky keys and reported him to The Second Mile." The University Police never contact the grad student.
Curley says that the grad student only told them that there was 'inappropriate behavior" and "horsing around" that made the grad student "feel uncomfortable" (at this point, I'm hoping when I was little and my mother would call from the kitchen, "you kids quit horsing around in there", that some of my friends were actually anally raping me). Curley says the grad student was asked if there was any sexual activity of any kind and the grad student twice said "no." Curley also said that, when asked if there was any anal sex between Sandusky and the boy, the grad student said 'no."
Here's the question: If JoePa only referred to fondling or something of an inappropriate nature, and the grad student only referred to horsing around, why would Curley specifically ask about anal sex? Is that what is normally though of when the term "horsing around" is used at Penn State?
Schultz remembers that Sandusky might have grabbed a boy's genitals while wrestling with him - at least that's what he remembers from his meeting with Curley and Paterno.
Paterno, Curley, and Schultz need to learn to communicate with each other, when 'anal rape' becomes "fondling" becomes "horsing around" becomes "wrestling."
Don't forget that PSU president Spanier was also 'informed' of the situation.