I’ve read every article I can get my hands on.
I’ve read the 23 page Grand Jury presentment.
I’ve read JoePa’s version of the events.
JoePa, by his own words, has revealed he was unwilling to simply pick up the phone and call the police.
As for this article?
MY BS detector is going haywire.
So the guy’s story is that McQueary described sex sounds. But he asks him 3 times if he saw anything sexual?
McQueary sees that a boy is in the shower alone with an adult male, who grabs the boy by the waist and pulls him back in.
And based on this, the guy advises McQueary not to call the police.
Unfreakingbelievable.
It does not matter if he called police since Joepa was not a witness to the event. This would have been “hearsay”. The ultimate responsibility would have McQueary to go to the police - not Paterno.
“I’ve read JoePa’s version of the events.”
I’d like to see a link to those quotes. There is ONE quote from Joe out there - that “in hindsight, I wish I had done more” (in hindsight, we ALL wish we had done more).
Thats all - there are no quotes from Joe in the GJ Presentment. He has held no press conferences. He has conducted no interviews.
Where prey tell, have you read his version of the events? Or maybe, you just THOUGHT you read his version of the events. Or maybe...just maybe, your mind was made up before hearing Joe’s version of the events. Because he hasn’t GIVEN IT TO ANYONE YET. PERIOD.
BTW, here’s the AG’s office’s take on Joe’s firing:
“We have a cooperating witness [Paterno], an individual who testified, provided truthful testimony,” Hagen-Frederiksen told ABCNews.com, “but two others who were found by a grand jury to commit perjury whose legal expenses are being paid for university. One is on administrative leave. Very interesting development.”
“It’s certainly curious and [has] not been explained yet,” he said. “Speaking as a prosecuting agency, we have a cooperating witness who has not been charged, while two individuals accused of committing crimes continue to be affiliated.”
if it was me, i would like to think i would have confronted sandusky on the spot and asked him WTF? and then insisted on having the parent come in and relate it to them, in front of sandusky if he insisted. if he pushed back on that, then i would call the police on the spot.
as for Paterno, there was a lot of gossip for many years, and if there was no crime, why was Jerry “banned” from the campus with young kids? so Paterno knew or had reason to suspect and know. for that, he loses all my respect, and even not technically a criminal, he is an enabler to the subsequent assaults on young men.