He isn't being scape-goated.
How crude to think of Islamic goats being used instead of young boys.
You say “I also wonder if Paterno is being scapegoated to keep the homosexual angle off the headlines”.
Paterno isn’t being scapegoated any more than the Catholic bishops who protected pedophile priests were scapegoated. Paterno and the Penn State administration did EXACTLY the same thing the bishops did, and for EXACTLY the same reasons.