Posted on 11/09/2011 7:30:27 PM PST by Colofornian
Penn State trustees fired football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier (SPAN-yer) amid the growing furor over how the school handled sex abuse allegations against an assistant coach.
The massive shakeup Wednesday night came hours after Paterno announced that he planned to retire at the end of his 46th season.
But the outcry following the arrest of former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky on molestation charges proved too much for the board to ignore.
One key question has been why Paterno and other top school officials didn't go to police in 2002 after being told a graduate assistant saw Sandusky assaulting a boy in a school shower...
(Excerpt) Read more at newser.com ...
Hopefully this will help: http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/uploadedFiles/Press/Sandusky-Grand-Jury-Presentment.pdf
Now we have celebrities like Lady Gaga praising it, and saying they were "Born this Way."
You are exactly right. These programs are made up of at risk kids...with no one advocating for them. This is not the first time there’s beena bad actor in back of one of these tyoes of ‘youth’ programs. I know from personal experience, nothing as bad as what happened to these young boys..but the adults in charge can very much take advantage. Someone or someones need to be watching the watchers. I thank my lucky stars I had an honest adult advocating for me during that time.
#1 - They already had his legal testimony -- given before the Grand Jury. (There was enough there to fire him -- even if not enough to convict him of anything)
#2 Silence IS a cover-up. You don't have to "prove" the negative (the silence). The silence itself is the cover of darkness. You can see the light through the darkness -- and there was no light within the Penn State staff who knew what went on.
#3 While the Board may have considered legal guilt re: the President (Spanier), the Board didn't need to base the Paterno decision on that. Rather it had enough -- common sense ethics and moral decision-making -- to render a decision. And both of these failed horrifically within the Penn State system -- horifically and systematically.
WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT!
A child rapist is free on the streets of State Colleg and Joe Paterno is the story. Get a rope, find a strong branch, and hunt down the evil fiend Jerry Sandusky.
So why was the Pres fired with that logic?
The had little choice, and because this thing ran so many years, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if some on the Board of Trustees had some knowledge of the incidents.
Let’s see if I have this straight: Grad Student sees the reprehensible act, leaves and tells father instead of yelling “hey, stop!”, then dad tells Paterno something. Paterno has no direct knowledge of the event nor do we know exactly how it was described to Paterno.
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No you do not have it correct. Paterno said Mcqueary (not his dad) told him it was “fondling or an act of a sexual nature” in his testimony to the grand jury.
You should read the grand jury report if you want to know the facts of what happened.
http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/uploadedFiles/Press/Sandusky-Grand-Jury-Presentment.pdf
It is going to be an absolute circus this Saturday
Nebraska fans are some of the best in college football, so hopefully they won’t go overboard. This is bad enough as it is without the fans getting into it.
Hopefully, Sandusky kills himself. No need to call the victims as witnesses so they can relive it.
It appears that everyone involved was either more worried about losing his job or in keeping PSU safe from any involvement. To hell with the kids - they were just poor kids who didn’t matter. It just makes me sick.
Yes. Why turn what should be the most mournful game in Penn State's history into a "let's glory our local god" celebration?
Penn State needs to repent with sackcloth and ashes and needs to feel the pain of its local victims who were failed by otherwise responsible people.
He had to go. He was going rogue out there shooting his mouth off about how “in hindsight, he should have done more”.
That’s absolutely true, but as an employee, he brings more liability on the university by admitting that. As it is, PSU is probably looking at potentially millions of $$$ in damages over this. Paid by whom? - the taxpayers of PA, of course.
JoePa supposedly has his son, Scott (who is a lawyer, but not practicing right now) advising him, if you can call it that. JoePa lives in a bubble where he is loved and revered and he has always called the shots. He needs a very good lawyer now. Maybe he won’t be found culpable in a criminal case, but in a civil case where the bar is lower, he very well could be.
He needs to shut up and go away. The sooner he’s out of the picture, the sooner the damage from this to the reputation of a fine university will abate.
What a way to end a stellar career. He outstayed his welcome by about ten years.
Ew!
And, per Rintense’s post #53 (whose word is always good), this has been going on and known about since at least 1998?
1998!!!
Fire ‘em all. And then call in the District Attorney.
The Westboro protesters have announced they will be there @ the game.
This is actually a practice that ALL coaches adamantly adhere to. It teaches young men good hygiene. I was ALWAYS instructed by my coaches that showers were required - we always took them, it makes sense. It is an important aspect of athletics that carries on through life - that being the need for good hygiene.
Not busting your chops, but to say that he used a good practice as his "MO" is a bit incorrect and disingenuous.
Because Sandusky founded a charity called The Second Mile thirty four years ago to help disadvantaged kids. This enabled him to look for and gain access to children from troubled homes who had little parenting.
Pedophiles look for an easy mark with no support.
Sandusky was able to get away with this for three and a half decades.
It won’t make those molested whole, but at least some action is being taken.
And they're gonna need millions and millions to repay the victims.
Wow! Hadn't heard that. Thanks for sharing.
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