[SWAMPSNIPER]

How old is Paterno? I pushing 70 and I can't remember not being aware that the creepy crawlers existed.

If people actually shelter their kids enough that they don't know what to watch for it is a form of abuse.

[Scoutmaster]

How old is Paterno?

85 last December (born December 21, 1926). One of grandfathers was born in the Indian Territory in 1902. He could have been Paterno's father. When I was a boy, he warned me about 'friendly' men on more than one occasion.

[cherry]

if you grew up in a traditional Catholic home, as I assume Paterno did, with traditional values, facing up to a grown man doing perverse things with children is a totally foreign predicament...

I can imagine how my own dad would have reacted: with dismay, and disbelief, and totally unprepared....

in a sense,I can understand Paterno's predicament...maybe he did feel others were handling the case, maybe he himself felt totally impotent to handle it....