[WoofDog123]

“That’s been my question all along. Perhaps he feared Paterno and Penn State would ruin his career if he went directly to the police.”

That is the most obvious conclusion - that he would be ruined, and the issue may or may not ever even become public or acted on. Would he have had good reason to expect the campus police to work very helpfully with the interests of the school?

[Colofornian]

“That’s been my question all along. Perhaps he feared Paterno and Penn State would ruin his career if he went directly to the police.” That is the most obvious conclusion - that he would be ruined, and the issue may or may not ever even become public or acted on. Would he have had good reason to expect the campus police to work very helpfully with the interests of the school? [combined comments by Woofdog & Moonman...who, if you combine their names as one moniker, would be "Woofman" -- and we even have a full moon! :]

Anyway...on the employee "fear factor" -- the columnist I cited in post #63 said the same thing...