The end. Jo Pa did his duty?
yes he did, not saying he couldn’t/shouldn’t have done more, but it was not his place to do so .. the beauracrats running the college are the ones who should have fired and pressed charges
“Second Mile” was recruiting chilren based on its ties to Penn State football. Holding camps on Penn State property. For almost SEVEN YEARS after Head Coach Joe Paterno was told about a witnessed rape of a child by his colleague.
Sorry.
“It’s not my job” does not fly here.
ANY Mom or Dad knows in his heart he would not have let this go and shrugged it off saying “I told the University bosses, they took away his locker room keys, what else can I do”
And I went to Penn State, was a Jo-Pa fan, never missed a game at Beaver Stadium for 4 years. Team never even lost a game until my Jr year. And during this whole time little boys were being sodomized in the football locker rooms.
Where does responsibility begin & end here?
McQueary can claim he did his "duty" by meeting first with Paterno, and then with Schultz & Curley.
Except that McQueary didn't interrupt the assault; didn't call police that night or that weekend; and didn't seem to ever follow up. Why? And why don't we have Paterno, Curley & Schultz encouraging McQueary to follow up when Sandusky was never arrested?
Paterno can claim he did his "duty" by meeting Schultz & Curley at his house within 1.5 days of the attack on the boy @ school.
Except that Paterno didn't seemingly follow-up at some eventual point...either not being able to use his considerable sphere of influence to encourage McQueary to go to the police -- or encourage his administrators to do the same.
Schultz' attorney, per an AP story, is now claiming that Schultz & Curley gave the info to their superiors. I'm assuming that includes pro-gay rights Spanier, a Democrat.
Except that they should have realized they are covered under mandating reporting rules -- and for some reason, they saw fit to lie during the Grand Jury investigation...and did they, too, pass on their "encouragemenet" of McQueary to come forward?
You see what we have here so far. All passing the buck up within the chain of command. Next, we'll probably hear from Spanier that perhaps he passed the info on to the Board of Trustees, and that he's free of responsibility, too.
The fact that Sandusky was running camps on two other Penn State campuses (Erie & Harrisburg) + many others -- all the way thru 2008 -- also helps us focus here. Or are you telling us that NONE of these Penn State coaches & admins knew Sandusky was creating new 4th grade & up contacts all around the state of Penn?
What? They didn't "care" about that? Or were they just protecting his "sexual orientation" -- as college policies mandate these days?