I've read this but no details. How did Paterno repeatedly conceal? Anyone got any reference?
Their goal was to conceal all the facts. The fact is that by not going to the legal authorities they concealed the facts that they each knew. Once they became aware, then from that moment on the concealment was continuous.
Just one example is that he gave McQueary a job after McQueary gave a credible eye witness account of seeing Sandusky in the shower with a boy who looked about 10 years old with (not for the faint of heart) rhythmic sounds of wet bodies slapping together.
This was roughly a decade before these charges came to light.
If McQueary was NOT credible - why did Paterno give him a job? If McQueary was credible - then both he and Paterno witnessed, over the next DECADE, Sandusky parading around Penn State Campus with other young boys, going to banquets, and using his access to the Penn State athletic facilities as the “currency” with which he “groomed” his victims.
Paterno informed Sandusky of the eye witness account - but NOT actual authorities - allowing Sandusky to potentially silence the victim (who still has never been identified).
That is just ONE incident. The recent report also showed that this was the SECOND time (at least) that Paterno had credible reports of Sandusky victimizing young boys. It is also likely he knew of the janitor who saw the same thing McQueary did on a different date.
The report also showed that officials at Penn State were about to take what they knew to actual authorities - UNTIL they spoke with Paterno. Circumstantial - but quite damning.
Paterno is scum. Full stop. Winning football games does not ameliorate lessen or abrogate his complicity in child rape.
“I’ve read this but no details. How did Paterno repeatedly conceal? Anyone got any reference?”
In the Freeh report there were copies of mulitple emails between the criminals about how to cover it up, how to avoid the bad publicity, how to bury it and maintain the university’s squeaky-clean status, etc.
One email referenced the idea that they may be culpable later on if the story ever became public. They chose to cover it up anyway.
Google can probably find the full report for you.
I’ve read this but no details. How did Paterno repeatedly conceal? Anyone got any reference?
In 2001, when AD Tim Curley talked to Joe what to do about Sandusky Curley wrote to PSU Prez Spanier that Joe didn’t want to report it to the police. Joe officially knew as early as 1998 when he told Sandusky he was no longer the heir apparent and allowed him to retire. I have read Joe knew as early as the mid-70’s about Sandusky’s problem.
In 2004, when Spainer, Chmn. of BoT and 2 other high ranking officials asked Joe to retire and he told them no. You know you have a problem.