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Six Years Later, Penn State Is Still At War Over The Sandusky Scandal
Washington Post ^ | 28 December 2017 | Will Hobson

Posted on 12/28/2017 1:07:10 PM PST by zeestephen

Six years after the Sandusky scandal rocked Penn State, university leadership is still fighting a civil war over the case, a conflict fueled, in part, by weaknesses that have developed in investigations that concluded top Penn State officials covered up for the convicted child molester.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: joepaterno; joesandusky; paterno; pennstate; sandusky
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1 posted on 12/28/2017 1:07:10 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

They’ll all die of old age before it’s over..............


2 posted on 12/28/2017 1:10:37 PM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: zeestephen

I still wish that we could have seen Joe Paterno cuffed and in prison jammies.


3 posted on 12/28/2017 1:13:50 PM PST by laweeks
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To: zeestephen

I don’t give the Washington post the time of day. Nor do I have anything to do with ped state - including watching their football - unless they’ve figured out some way to steal from my taxes.


4 posted on 12/28/2017 1:18:04 PM PST by onedoug
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To: zeestephen

I still liked the supposed Paterno fan playing violins over and making excuses for Sandusky.
Anyone seen that guy around the forum recently?


5 posted on 12/28/2017 1:19:23 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: zeestephen

Michael Mann was also exonerated by the noted Wife Swapping Studies Scholar Prezzy Spanier.


6 posted on 12/28/2017 1:21:32 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: laweeks

Joe Pa died a broken man, discredited in the sport that once revered him. Mixed feelings about Joe; there is no doubt that he did much good as a coach, but in the end, pursuit of winning and maintaining a facade on his program cost him is honor. I think he realized he’d destroyed his own legacy he’d sought to build for his entire life, and that realization killed him. Whether it was actual remorse in the realization of “my God, what have I done?” or whether it was something else, I cannot know. But it did kill him.

Legal justice would have been served by having him do the perp walk, but in its own way, Joe Paterno imposed a kind of justice on himself.


7 posted on 12/28/2017 1:22:09 PM PST by henkster
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To: zeestephen

Someone refresh my memory. Why was Joe Paterno implicated? As I recall it was because some thought he didn’t intervene or stop Sandusky from what he was doing, and Paterno allegedly knew all about it? I know Paterno was fired and discredited and his memory at Penn State erased. But I thought Paterno himself wasn’t molesting anyone, but he was somehow implicated in a cover up.

Anyone care to refresh our memories as to what crimes Paterno allegedly committed in the case?


8 posted on 12/28/2017 1:25:05 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I’m going form memory here but:

Paterno was never accused of molesting anyone. However, there is credible evidence from multiple sources that he knew Sandusky was a pedophile perv, including possibly direct knowledge of at least one molestation incident that occurred on campus at the football compex.


9 posted on 12/28/2017 1:30:30 PM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: zeestephen

And Ray Gricar is still missing...


10 posted on 12/28/2017 1:31:38 PM PST by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

‘Anyone care to refresh our memories as to what crimes Paterno allegedly committed in the case?’

Paterno was never charged with any crime...he was fired, in my estimation, because he announced to the press that he would retire at the end of the season, attempting to strongarm the administration; however, his days of calling the shots were over...


11 posted on 12/28/2017 1:32:23 PM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Paterno knew. I believe there was evidence that the guy who saw Sandusky in the shower with the little boy told Joe Pa. In any event, yes, Paterno knew. As to how long he knew, I don't know.

I believe everyone in college football knew. Sandusky was the architect of one of college football's finest defenses. After he walked away from Penn State, his name never seriously came up for many of the open positions in Division 1 college football. I think every Division 1 AD knew Sandusky was radioactive and stayed away. The reason it wasn't publicly discussed is that Paterno was an icon and nobody wanted to be an iconoclast.

Everyone knew. Nobody talked.

12 posted on 12/28/2017 1:33:10 PM PST by henkster
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To: Dilbert San Diego

State employees have a duty to notify regarding suspected abuse. That was one issue.


13 posted on 12/28/2017 1:34:13 PM PST by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Darksheare

He’s gone, I think.


14 posted on 12/28/2017 1:35:01 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Darksheare

http://www.freerepublic.com/~fljoepa/

In the dustbin


15 posted on 12/28/2017 1:35:19 PM PST by outpostinmass2
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To: zeestephen

Outside the Nittany Lion nation, it is hard to understand the reverence that many hold for Joe Pa Paterno. They are influenced by his coaching record and good he did for the university. They feel Paterno and his legacy was railroaded by the NCAA and Freeh, and that he never had the due process opportunity to defend himself and his family from the cover up allegations. The schism with what most of us think as reality of guilt will haunt Penn State for generations.


16 posted on 12/28/2017 1:35:19 PM PST by buckalfa (I was so much older then, but I'm younger than that now.)
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To: henkster

Yup. He knew.

To some, It Never Happened, and Penn State Football is simply Too Big To Fail. No matter how many kids got molested.


17 posted on 12/28/2017 1:36:13 PM PST by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: outpostinmass2

That was him.


18 posted on 12/28/2017 1:36:42 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego; henkster
In 1999, Jerry Sandusky was one of the most talented coaches in all of college football. Many teams wanted someone with that talent as a head coach. Then he not only doesn't take a head coaching job, he also resigns his position as DC at Penn State, just as his career was coming into it's prime?

The only reason he retired is there was something came out, and he couldn't avail himself of those opportunities? Something was being covered up, so Sandusky had to retire to a low profile. The school and Paterno didn't want it coming out and discrediting them. Let's face it, a lot of Paterno's success was aided in a major way by Sandusky.

If Sandusky hadn't done something real bad, he would have been head coach at Penn State or somewhere else in 200.0.

19 posted on 12/28/2017 1:36:52 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: mewzilla
All states have mandatory child abuse reporting laws. Most states require not just state employees, but teachers and health personnel to report. Some states say everyone. In fact, the duty to report trumps all of the usual privileges, like attorney/client and physician/patient.

Wasn't the President of the University prosecuted for failure to report?

20 posted on 12/28/2017 1:37:53 PM PST by henkster
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