“all Paterno knew was that a graduate assistant had sort of witnessed Sandusky engaging in highly inappropriate contact of a sexual nature in a Penn State shower.”
Highly inappropriate is a professor with a college student in the shower.
A middle aged man having sex with a young boy in the showers is freakin rape. Forget the “required reporter” cop out, anyone who knew this was happening had a duty to report it and make sure it was handled. That includes the cops who apparently ignored these crimes.
Apparently folks are willing for fatherless boys to be raped in order to protect their sports business.
One of those with knowledge was Jonathan Dranov, M.D., who was called to the McQueary household that night after John McQueary heard his son's story and couldn't decide what to do. He knew something was going on in that shower - he pressed Mike McQueary three times on whether he saw actual sex and all three times McQueary broke down and couldn't answer.
Physicians are required under Pennsylvania law to report suspected sexual abuse; Dranov reported nothing.
In the interest of full disclosure, Dranov was medical director of a clinic to which the Paternos had given over $1 million. He advised telling Paterno and not the police.
“Apparently folks are willing for fatherless boys to be raped in order to protect their sports business.”
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This has been a real eye opener for me. I am stunned that Paterno has the defenders that he has. Stunned.