Posted on 07/12/2012 6:16:38 AM PDT by iowamark
Agreed. It just that simple.
Joe Paterno knew. And he did nothing. The report even stated that Paterno and crew contacted Sandusky to tell him about the allegations from Mike McQuerry. Paterno never even bothered to find out about the child, whether he was alive or not. His first act was to contact Sandusky, a man who Paterno knew was accused two years early of doing the same thing. No what I think, I think Sandusky killed that child he molested in the shower shortly after being tipped off by Paterno.
That’s the other disturbing thing to consider, if indeed there was a “pedophile ring”, those don’t exist over a long period of time, without some bodies being buried somewhere.
I believe Pennsylvania filed a bill or made a law recently making it a crime not to report child abuse.
Massachusetts had to place a law on the book after the Catholic priest molestations. We call it the Cardinal Law law.
It's a shame that this case wasn't prosecuted years ago, when Paterno might have been punished as well.
I suspect most of them will be settled to avoid lengthy trials.”
Hopefully the NCAA will sanction and expel PSU football for many many years. Joe P was an enabler; big time!
Every current PSU player should be allowed to transfer to other schools without having to sit out a year.
Jerry Sandusky was correctly found guilty and will go to prison.
The very important point you and some other Jo Pa and Penn State defenders are missing is that Sandusky’s predilections for sexually molesting young boys under his care and charge was not exactly an unknown to some Penn State officials, including Paterno going back to at least 1998. While Sandusky may have met his victims through Second Mile, he abused many of them while on the Penn State campus and during Penn State football games as acting as a Penn State employee in various parts of the country.
Paterno totally ruled Penn State and what he said went; whether that was covering up for football players engaged in on or off campus criminal offences; riding rough shod over university rules and other officials to keep those matters quiet and insisting on disciplining players himself by things such as merely making them clean up the stadium after a game when they should have been booted out of the university or even to have faced criminal charges, to, after testifying to the grand jury that after he (Paterno) reported Mclearys’ accusations to his superiors, had no further involvement what so ever when the emails in the Freech investigation indicates that Paterno did intervene after his initial report to his superiors, Curley and Schultz and ultimately Spanier, and contrary to his grand jury testimony he convinced them to go easy on Sandusky and not report his crimes to the authorities.
Judging from the lack of any (reported) offers from other Universities, strongly suspect many others outside of PSU had to have known something.
Sorry, but I did not see you getting any sort of personal attack. You have just chosen to defend the indefensible.
Have a nice day yourself. I am sure the victims wish they could “Have a nice day”
MissH, you said it nicer than what comes to my mind, so I'll simply quote you and add:
I would be embarrassed and ashamed to be associated with Pedd State in any way - as a student, teacher, coach, janitor, etc.
swpa_mom - Do you really assign NO BLAME to Paterno??!! REALLY?!
>> “Jerry Sandusky is the guilty one here.” <<
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Sandusky is the convicted one, but Penn State “University” ia the most guilty one here. They are an institution of sexual deviance, not education.
Sexual deviance permeates every element of that cesspool. Shut it down!
Louis Freeh’s one of the good guys. Totally trust worthy - have faith in his work. Yeah, he’s that good.
“The Pennsylvania State University’s football program won’t be shut down. The football program didn’t molest the children, the former coach did. Jerry Sandusky met the children through a charity.’
Mom, thou doest protest too much. The report correctly identifies the leaders of your revered university as enablers. They included Spanier and Paterno in that. Get over it...Penn State, the University, was responsible in many ways for the evil atrocity brought on innocent young boys by an evil pedophile, Jerry Sandusky. Spanier and Paterno were responsible. Spanier needs to be charged along with those already charged. It is time for you and others in Pennsylvania to come to grips with the stench that has been pouring out of (Un) Happy Valley.
Pull down the statue and rename the library.
My thoughts exactly. Release all of the players now to transfer to another school and be immediately eligible to play.
There is nothing new about this coverup. It has gone on in the Bay Area of San Fran for decades, in the Catholic church for centuries, and in every “gay” bar on the planet since the ancients. Same-sex rape of young boys is the part of the “gay” lifestyle yet remaining in the coprophile’s closet. Others in the Sandusky case stated that several of Sandusky’s victims were passed around the “gay community.” This same practice is not just prevalent in the gay community, it is a primary obsession in the gay community.
And by the way, this is not just pedophilia, it is pederasty, the same-sex rape of young boys by male homosexuals.
While Sandusky is the real monster here, tt can't be stressed enough that PSU officials need to be held accountable for their part in this, too.
That accountability should best be in the form of shutting down the football program for a few years.
It's a no-brainer, actually.
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