[twigs]

He DID report it and it was investigated by campus police. He shouldn’t have gone to the local police with only a hear-say story. He was a great man who was treated shamefully by Penn State.

[mom4kittys]

DITTO
For the life of me I can’t understand why people don’t understand this.

[Oztrich Boy]

It was either a case of him telling himself "I told them, it's their problem now", or him telling them "If this gets out, it could damage the football program. Take care of if"

Neither makes him a great man.

[martinidon]

Well, even if you feel he reported it and that was all he needed to do; at the very least he should have had Sandusky banned from the sports facilities. I would have demanded he be banned from the campus.

[FreeReign]

He shouldn’t have gone to the local police with only a hear-say story.

Why not?

[King Moonracer]

Hear-say? McQueary witnessed it first hand, and Joe made some calls. He should have got off his dumb ass, and dragged that pussy McQueary to the REAL police, and let the DA decide. He’d have been a hero, instead of a goat. Eff the football at all cost idiots!!,,

[Prince of Space]

If he was a parish priest who was told a fellow priest was raping young boys in the rectory or on church grounds, that priest is REQUIRED to call the police to report it, even a mere accusation. Reporting it to diocese officials isn’t good enough anymore.

So why the double standard for JoePa?

Mrs. Prince of Space

[catroina54]

“He DID report it and it was investigated by campus police. He shouldn’t have gone to the local police with only a hear-say story. He was a great man who was treated shamefully by Penn State.”
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mc queary physically went to paterno’s home to tell him what he saw and the right action would have been for both men to go in person to the police with or without an atty.
Then mc queary could have made a complete statement as to what he witnessed.