The problem here is that these victims know that the “judicial” system is going to try to make liars and fools out of them and the media will hold them up as absolute idiots.
In this case, it’s all about how important sports has become to the college image and all stops are out to protect anything and anyone who is driving the sports program.
If I were a victim there would be no way that I would ever disclose it.
Sports is definitely a whole lot today, and I even ventured to wonder if it has obtained idol status if it is willingly being “fed” little boys. (A hypothetical which even the most energetic finger waggers have yet to prove is happening.)
But the personnel running a sport do not remain the same, nor does any school lack plans for replacing unexpectedly lost personnel. If Sandusky was shown to be a rat, Penn State could feasibly, if not without pain, stand to lose him if he was bringing disrepute to the Second Mile and the football programs. Someone else could stand up and bring integrity to a program which had lost it. It’s not like Penn State would have to drop out of college football.
As it looks, some seem to be approaching the mien of that crazed French prosecutor (Javert?) in Les Miserables when the mountainous “problem” turns out to be scarcely a molehill.