It changes the whole meaning of what you implied.
In the one incident, the mother contacted law and they investigated.
And they declined to file charges, just simply warning him not to shower with kids.
What was Paterno supposed to do about that?
Other than, maybe, tell Sandusky he's through which he apparently did.
By the time 2011 rolled around the guy shouldn't have still been hanging around PennState.
Maybe, but Paterno wouldn't have had the power to kick him out. Sandusky was a prof emeritus.
I'm not so sure he was hanging around PSU that much in 2011, btw. The abuse investigation started in 2008 & he was booted out of Second Mile that year because of it.
He held his youth football camps on-campus till 2009. He was observed working out in Joe's facilities last week. They took his keys away Sunday.
Now, who would have recommended Sandusky for prof emeritus? After all, everyone from the President down to the janitors knew he was banging little boys in Joe's locker room. Makes you wonder, huh?
He was not “caught” the second time either if you want to get specific - he was “observed” engaging in anal sex in the shower with a child who was “observed” to be around 10 years old.
What was Paterno supposed to do about the 1998 incident? I don't know, how about what any decent human being should do? Report it to the Police, follow up on it, remove him from his job (which he apparently did, but still allowed him to run around PennStatePedo with young men).
What was Paterno supposed to do about the 2002 incident? I don't know, how about what any decent human being should do? Report it to the Police, follow up on it, remove him from Penn State permanently.
To claim Paterno couldn't remove Sandusky from the grounds of PennStatePedo football strains credulity.
I am not that credulous.
The guy was working out at the PennStatePedo gym last week reportedly, some nine years after the SECOND report of him being in the shower with a male child.
That may be what passes for decent human behavior at PennStatePedofileU - but it is a far cry from what most people I know would expect.