You bet the wife knew. He spent nights in bed with the young boys down in the basement, and not in Dottie’s bed.
Did she ever go down there to investigate?
No surprise here—Franco Harris defends JoePa:
Speaking to MSNBC on Thursday, Harris said that he’s “upset” by Paterno’s ouster and that the legendary coach did the right thing by reporting what he knew about Jerry Sandusky’s alleged abuse to his superiors.
When asked why Paterno didn’t alert the police, Harris defended his coach, saying the alleged abuse by Sandusky was “a university matter” and “no longer a football matter for Joe.”
“You people can say ‘Listen, yeah, everybody should do this,’ but... I would say 95 percent of people would go through superiors thinking that your superiors who are competent would do their job and go to police,” Harris said.
Harris, who was an honorary board member of Jerry Sandusky’s Second Mile charity, said he was disappointed about the revelations of sex abuse given how beneficial the program was to so many children.
(Note: Harris played under Sandusky for several years at Penn State.)