“OTOH, if someone simply told me about it without going into specifics, and I wasn’t really sure I believed it, I’d probably would just pass it down the line, if that.”
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Even if you were the boss?
If you were in charge, or had any responsibility, official or otherwise, don’t you feel it would be vitally important to force the revelation of “specifics”?
Or not just the specifics of the 2002 ‘caught in the shower with a minor male’ incident - but ALSO the 1998 ‘caught in the shower with a minor male’ incident.
But no, two credible reports of the guy in the shower with the troubled young men he is supposed to be helping - and almost ten years after TWO credible reports - nothing.
If I was the person responsible for initiating the investigation, I would have to investigate.
If I was the person, not responsible for initiating the investigation, then I would inform the one who is supposed to.
How about you?
If I was the "boss" btw -- and Paterno was not in this case -- this would very likely mean not investigating it myself but directing the matter to HR or security, who presumably would have the training to determine whether state law enforcement should be involved.
I'm reading the Grand Jury report now. It appears Paterno did follow up with a conversation with the head of the University Police (Schultz), and it was Schultz and Curley who blew the whole thing off.
If one is a witness, obviously, one then should call the police first, which in this case very well might have meant that campus police would have been first on the scene.