With the benefit of simple common sense and basic humanitarian ethics, ALL at Penn State who knew could have done more!
This has been in Breaking News for a few hours now.
Coach Paterno live in a glass house of “higher ethics” which we now know was just good press. At his core, his job was to shepherd young men and protect them. He did next to nothing to do so. Read the open transcripts from the grand jury. What his coach did was child rape, and he either ignored what was going on, or turned a blind eye. He should step down today, and do so with his head held low.
I totally agree. Joe Paterno fulfilled his minimum legal obligation by calling his superiors regarding Sandusky, but he failed to use his considerable influence to see that the administrators pushed forward and reported the criminal acts to the police. Paterno had to have known that Sandusky was not under arrest or in prison.
How many other children were violated before the scandal was exposed?
I still have to pinch myself to see if I’m dreaming on this one. Just unbelievable.
Had that been one of his grandsons I bet he would have done more.
This is not a child abuse case.
This is a GAY abuse of young boys case.
I have already ran into a few dopes on suicide watch over this. Penn State football and Joepa are a religion here. I made the mistake of asking one of them if they thought he had any responsibility for the conduct of his staff. That didn’t go well. These people are cultists. The lady I talked to didn’t even go to PSU.
I can’t believe they will let him complete the season. What the University should do is fire the entire coaching staff and notify the NCAA they will not be playing the remainder of their 2011 season or possible bowl games. This University faces some huge litigation costs and what they do from this day forward may impact ultimate judgements. It is not time to pussy foot around to avoid hurting the feelings of their 84 year old coach.
Only because the cat's out of the bag - didn't seem too concerned about those children at the time.
He deserves to get loudly boo'd at the Nebraska game - and I hope they sue him for everything he (and Penn State) has.
I read the entire grand jury report and it is absolutely disgusting! Paterno was told by the grad student what happened and he had a moral obligation to follow up. No one can use the excuse that he wasn’t told the details. The report says the grad student and his father met with Paterno the very next day and “reported what he had seen”. It doesn’t say it was specific but it doesn’t say it wasn’t either. He’s a liar if he says he didn’t know the seriousness of it.
“This is a tragedy,” Paterno said in a statement. “It is one of the great sorrows of my life....”
Too bad this forked-tongue POS let football interfer with the action that was his moral responsibility to take. He diserves all of the negative fall-out from this that comes his way, and more. May he rot in the hell that he has created by doing nothing.
Hindsight? Aw, geez Joe...
Silk-screen outfits in Ohio and Wisconsin are working 24/7 right now to crank out as many ‘Penn State Pedophiles’ t-shirts before game time...
RETIRE? Why would he get a pension???? SHouldn’t he be sent to jail?
Have we yet to hear fwom Bawney Fwank on this issue?
That Sandusky should have been thrown out and arrested after being caught in the shower ! That is an awkward situation. If it had to be done over, the police should have been called by the witness and let the chips fall where they may.
Over the years, I seen many things. Back in 2003, I was in PEI, Canada and did some bike riding. I used a shower at the University PEI rec center and they were running kids camps as well. However, they had separate facilities for the adults and kids. When I used the shower, I used the locker-room with the adults.
Back in middle school (Jr. High), I remember being in the locker-room after school and a lot of the wrestlers would weigh in with the adult teacher/coach and they would be literally butt naked ! Usually either no clothes or a jock strap on. But this was also in the late 1970’s/early 1980’s. I remember the locker-room had a separate area for the adults including toilets. I remember one coach asked me to get something and I had to drop it off in the office and he was on one of the toilets behind the partition and that did NOT make me comfortable !
