The enablers are “mandated reporters” (well, some may be). They actually do face potential criminal charges. Most on this thread seem to have those convictions completed as well already. But ask yourself,why does PSU hand down these punishments within HOURS of the facts coming to light? And why are the punishments beyond what most mandated reporrters (like teachers, police, and social workers) get for their first failure to report? I believe that we’re just feeding a media circus, and that, if it was not a famous coach, then the punishments would’ve taken months, would not have involved firings, and would have been left to the police and the courts to hand out the first responses, and the school can act upon those factual findings, done under oath and with proper civil procedure. Why abandon them here?
Very well -- and very succinctly put, Mrs. Lougitude.
'Teach,' though aiding and abetting is criminal, "Enablement" in and of itself isn't necessarily a criminal charge, right?
Employees can be held accountable for enabling an abuser to go on abusing. It doesn't have to bleed over into the criminal, tho the DA looks at that & can consider where it has bled over.
The Board doesn't have to wait for a legal determination of enabling. It can simply act on...
...entrenched enablement,
...ethical violations (violation of NCAA bylaw 2.4),
...failure to report issues that leave them civilly exposed,
...dereliction of duty [failure to strongly encourage underlings to do their civic duty -- like report crimes when those above you have ducked their legal duty...McQueary was such an underling of Paterno],
...immoral failures to act in common-sense ways,
...etc.