Wrong newby. You treat Paterno as if he has god-like powers. I think that’s fantasy. I doubt he even knew about most of what was going on. In fact nobody knew because 4 of the 8 victims were never witnessed by anyone, one was never reported, one was completely off campus, and one wasn’t witnessed but reported by the mother after the fact based on indirect evidence, and then dismissed by the police and DA.
You can gut Joe open and burn him at the altar in some kind of turd world scapegoating, but the bottom line is that whatever Joe did, his superiors, the DA, and the police were 10X worse. Yet you want to keep the Alinsky-like focus on JoePa for some kind of cathartic bloodfest. Keep doing that and the bigger fish you listed will get away.
The thing is Joe Pa should go down for what he has failed to do. As should the others as well. Excusing Paterno is the same as excusing the Catholic Hierarchy. What would you have done if you were in Paterno’s shoes? Would you have let the issue die with a single instance of reporting it? If not, why do you hold Paterno to a lesser standard than yourself? Just because he’s major college football’s winningest coach he gets exemption from acting like a human being?
It happened in Joe's locker room and Joe knew it. Joe thought it more important to go out and win on Saturday than to do the right thing and stop it.
If you and others would quit defending Paterno with your pathetic lies about how he 'knew nothing' we could move on. Thank you.
I am 65. How old are you?