Life isn’t an episode of Law & Order. Most legal matters never get to the trial phase. Personnel actions are taken every day based on in-house investigations, affidavits and admissions, without resort to the courts.
Here, many of the asserted facts are admitted by multiple people, even if Sandusky denies them because he’s the one looking at life in prison. The facts alleged are that McQueary walked in on Sandusky raping a 10 year old boy in the locker room shower. He didn’t try to stop Sandusky or call the police. He waited until the next day and reported it to .... Paterno. Who told the Athletic Director. None of them called the police. And
Sandusky went on to another 9 years of access to the showers with children he picked up from his “Second Mile” children’s charity. And from foster care. Who besides Sandusky is denying those facts? And to the
school, they may have admitted much more than you are going to read about in the media.
The law requires an employer to investigate and take appropriate action
without waiting around for the court system. (Remember the Rest. Assoc. internal investigation report that cleared Herman Cain?) The school would
compound its already glaring exposure to civil damages if it continued to
expose young people to school personnel who admit to behaving as irresponsibly as this crew has.
So yes, that IS how it’s done in this country.
Thoughtful post, thanks.
I’m sure the trustees would enjoy reading it while forking over the millions of dollars they’ll be shelling out when the hysteria calms down and they realize they were influenced by media frenzy, not proper legal procedure or common sense.