all that because a boy told his father a story and his father told Joe a story, and Joe told the story a father told him that his son told to Curley & Schultz who should have investigated .........
and so many of you are ready to hang a good man
ALL: Just listen to this poster who has yet to mention the victims involved. An eyewitness report from an extremely credible person becomes just "a story."
Your framing is pathetic.
Joe told the story a father told him that his son told to Curley & Schultz...
More pathetic framing. Read the Grand Jury Presentment.
Both McQuearys came over to Joe's house the day after. So, no, it wasn't "a story" ONLY relayed from son to father to Joe. Joe heard the story firsthand...just like Curley and Schultz also (eventually) heard the story first hand from the younger McQueary.
If Paterno didn't think the eyewitness report was credible, he could have simply told the McQuearys to just go direct to Curley & Schultz & the authorties and leave him out. He could have washed his hands of the matter, not thinking it was credible.
But note, he didn't do that. Paterno FIRST called to have Schultz & Curley meet with him at his house, which he did the Sunday after the Friday assault. (McQueary wasn't at that mtg)
Paterno gave the account credibility. Having done that, he assumed "responsibility"; he conveyed he believed the report to be true. His meeting with Schultz & Curley proves that.
Besides, what if the victim was your son? What if you found out that Paterno had knowledge of the crime within hours of it, and had a face-to-face report of it in well under a day? What if the victim was "reviolated" that Saturday night -- the night of the DAY the McQuearys met with Paterno?
How would that sit with you -- knowing that Paterno sat on the info for 24 hours before passing it on? Knowing that another assault could have been prevented.
What's worse is that Paterno sat on the info for YEARS...almost a decade! All the while he knew Sandusky had these camps thru '08...and continued to have access to kids thru the Second Mile Foundation (thru the Foundation linkages, the Foundation sports camps, and thru Sandusky Associates sports camps run all over PA).
And Paterno still sat on his hands.
You know, if the KNitKinsey Lionizers were down late in the game, Paterno would have his offense respond accordingly. With urgency. But you're telling me what he knows on the field...when it comes to sensing the urgent off the field action that is needed, he is what? Dunce? Senile? What then?
If he saw one of his players shagging a kid in the showers, what? The team just needs to have a series of team & administrative "huddles"...going from the non-speaking captain to the speaking captain, who needs to talk to his asst coach, who needs to talk to the head coach, who needs to talk to the AD, who needs to talk to the VP, who needs to talk to the Prez, who needs to talk to the Board of Trustees? All the while the player is out shagging more kids because they keep giving the player ongoing access to their facilities over days, weeks, and years???
The "P" in PSU stands for "Pathetic"...they flunk in basic Humanitarian Ethics 101.
Here, I'll give you a lesson on what to do in this situation: Call 9/11 or interrupt the perp yourself! And if someone comes to you with what you regard as "a story," have them call the police then and there.
There. Simple, isn't it? But now that we see why Paterno & Co. lacked basic common sense -- not following up on this long-term; hence, he deserves what he gets.
For a football game.
But when it came to child rape? "I did the bare minimum legally required of me." Despicable. And it's the obvious reason he has to now resign.