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Penn State Child Molestor Indictment (Paterno knew; not charged)

Posted on 11/06/2011 10:20:30 PM PST by TigerClaws

HARRISBURG - Attorney General Linda Kelly and Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan today announced that criminal charges have been filed against three Centre County men as the result of an extensive and wide-reaching grand jury investigation into reports of the sexual abuse of children.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: chat; franknoonan; garyschultz; jerrysandusky; joepaterno; lindakelly; missinglink; pennstate; pennsylvania; timcurley; vanity
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Paterno knew and didn't notify police. The coverup led to years more of abuse and countless victims.

Huge lawsuits on the way. Paterno's legacy is destroyed. He needs to step down immediately and I hope he loses everything he owns to the families of these abused children.

1 posted on 11/06/2011 10:20:32 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

He may not be guilty in the eyes of the law, but it does sound like he merely “passed the buck”, he was more worried about the reputation of his program, than whether there would be future victims.


2 posted on 11/06/2011 10:22:51 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: TigerClaws

How come this is treated as an allegation, while the allegations against Cain are treated as proven?


3 posted on 11/06/2011 10:28:45 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TigerClaws

I don’t know how anyone could live with himself if he knew this was happening and did nothing. This is disgusting.


4 posted on 11/06/2011 10:28:48 PM PST by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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To: TigerClaws

They are abused boys. The press always write “children” to obfuscate the fact that this is about homosexuality AGAIN. This “looking the other way” is what our troops are being told when they go to Afghanistan. They shouldn’t interfere when they see men sodomizing young boys. How sick. Homosexuality is a learned behavior. There is no “gay” gene.

This pederasty has to be ended, and it won’t until we quit glorifying homosexuals and taking “pride” in deviant behavior taught to them by
pedophiles.


5 posted on 11/06/2011 10:47:58 PM PST by savagesusie
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To: TigerClaws

How about a link to the actual story?


6 posted on 11/06/2011 10:52:33 PM PST by crazyhorse691 (Obama is just the symptom of what is destroying the U.S.)
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To: TigerClaws

So...the Penn State locker room and showers are a crime scene.

Nebraska should cancel the game.


7 posted on 11/07/2011 12:05:22 AM PST by bushpilot1
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This is from 15 years ago ....
Those ‘boys’ are now adults..........
Let them talk and cream these creeps that have been accused....

what a terrible sad world we are living in..this story is sick..Penn State will be effected as it should be.


8 posted on 11/07/2011 12:14:44 AM PST by haircutter
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To: TigerClaws

The NCAA should put the Death Penalty on Penn State.


9 posted on 11/07/2011 12:29:20 AM PST by trumandogz (In Rick Perry's Nanny State, the state will drive your kids to the dentist at tax payer expense)
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To: TigerClaws

Guilty until proven innocent.


10 posted on 11/07/2011 1:01:59 AM PST by exnavy (May the Lord bless and keep our troops.)
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Change the name to "UNHAPPY VALLEY".
Seriously (if true) this is disgusting.
We, (myself included) have put football on to high of a pedestal.

Say it ain't so JOE

11 posted on 11/07/2011 1:02:24 AM PST by DeaconRed (My Hat Don't Hang on the same Nail to Long. I am a CAT adjuster.)
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Paterno knew and didn't notify police. The coverup led to years more of abuse and countless victims.

Paterno was told by a graduate assistant that he witnessed Sandusky molesting a boy in the locker room. Paterno passed that allegation to Tim Curry, the athletic director.

It was an ALLLEGATION. As far as we know, Paterno did not witness anything first-hand, so he could not go to police. He did exactly what he was supposed to to.

You are thinking like a college football fan and not objectively.

12 posted on 11/07/2011 3:28:11 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (Cain for President - Because I like the content of his character)
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Well actually Paterno, in his own statement, said he could tell from the attitude of the grad student reporting it that something had to have happened, and there was no excuse for a man of that age to be in the showers with a 10 year old.

Paterno did report it to his supervisor, but Paterno is no ordinary mid level manager. He is probably more powerful than the one he reported it too. He should have at least followed up on it after he saw that the perp was still around the locker rooms.

13 posted on 11/07/2011 3:39:11 AM PST by DainBramage
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To: TBP

Because this one has produced a grand jury report and an arrest.


14 posted on 11/07/2011 3:43:39 AM PST by mewzilla (Forget a third party. We need a second one.)
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To: DainBramage

The assistant has been ID’d as Mike McQueary.


15 posted on 11/07/2011 3:44:25 AM PST by mewzilla (Forget a third party. We need a second one.)
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To: TigerClaws

From a local reporter.

http://www.centredaily.com/2011/11/06/2976046/gricar-had-final-say-in-ending.html#storylink=omni_popular#wgt=pop

(District Attorney) Gricar had final say in ending inquiry


16 posted on 11/07/2011 3:45:06 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: TigerClaws

Paterno didn’t know the details, he only knew that something had happened. He reported it to the proper people.

Perhaps he should have held a trial himself?


17 posted on 11/07/2011 4:08:01 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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He should have followed up. No crime committed but he still should have followed up. It happened in his locker room.


18 posted on 11/07/2011 4:13:50 AM PST by DainBramage
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To: Erik Latranyi

If my grad assistant had come to me and told me this, my response would be, “let’s call the police right now- -and if you won’t, I will.”


19 posted on 11/07/2011 5:01:27 AM PST by sand lake bar (You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.)
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To: TBP

Cain didn’t coach Penn State football.


20 posted on 11/07/2011 5:05:01 AM PST by MontaniSemperLiberi (Moutaineers are Always Free)
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