Joe Paterno talks for 1st time since his firing

CBS News ^ | January 14, 2012 | Sally Jenkins

[Scoutmaster]

To me that means Paterno didn't really know what happened.

A deposition of Joe Paterno was read in court on December 16, 2011. According to Paterno, he was told that Sandusky and a boy were in the shower. He knew Sandusky (58) and the boy were boy naked.

Jo Paterno said under oath "(McQueary) had seen a person, an older person, fondling a young boy. I don't know what you would call it, but it was of a sexual nature."

According to McQueary: ""I told Paterno I saw Jerry with a young boy in the showers. It was way over the lines, extremely sexual in nature."

Paterno may not have "really known what happened," if by that you mean, Paterno didn't know it was anal rape.

But Paterno knew it was a naked older man with a naked boy, doing something of a sexual nature ('extremely sexual' according to McQueary). When Paterno said "I don't know what you call it," Paterno is talking about the it activities that McQueary described to him - the 'extremely sexual' activities.

Based on that, do you still think Joe Paterno is off the hook?

[Neoliberalnot]

You could not be more correct in your assessment. Great comment.

[TheOldLady]

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[palmer]

The choice at that point was call the cops or report it up the chain. The choice Paterno made is poor in hindsight, probably motivated by protecting the school and not the child. The problem he is really not the right person to call the cops based on that second hand description, that was McQueary. But by that logic, Paterno's bumping it up the chain is equally useless since he knew less than McQueary.

Paterno is basically off the hook because he has McQueary saying sexual and fondling, but not other evidence (AFAIK). At that point he has to ask himself if the potential crime is serious enough to call the cops right away and it's at that point that Paterno makes the mistake of thinking it was not.

[bobby.223]

I don’t care if they rename every building in the state after this scum paterno. The fact remains, (except for the brain dead denial idiots), this bastard KNEW of these child rape events and did NOTHING.

[bobby.223]

The bastard scum paterno’s accomplishments? May God strike me down if I ever allow a precious child to be raped on my watch. Yeah sonny, I really want to have an accomplishment on my record like that.

[sand lake bar]

Joe will always be loved here, and I say that mostly to piss you off. Things are just not as simple as yo think.

[353FMG]

I wish it were true — leadership is presently non-existent.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Thanks for the comment. While child abuse, regardless of the sex of the victim,is horrifying, little attention is being paid to the fact that Sandusky apparently abused boys only. And so the role of his homosexuality in all of this is left out of the story.

[Gaffer]

The wheel chair, the chemotherapy, the cancer, the broken pelvis don’t mean sh!t when you’re talking about a person who knowingly allowed a pervert to abuse young boys for perhaps decades.

[Neoliberalnot]

The same can be applied to the homosexual invasion of the Catholic Church. The homosexual rape of little boys is never identified for what it is: homosexual predation, a practice far more common than the old media cares to report.
CNN: Corey Feldman: Biggest problem in Hollywood is pedophilia
According to former child star Corey Feldman, child molestation is rampant in the entertainment industry, as he told Nightline in an interview.

“The No. 1 problem in Hollywood was and is and always will be pedophilia,” he said Wednesday. According to Feldman, the “casting couch” exists for children, too.

Feldman asserts that directors and other adults in the industry take advantage of young aspiring actors on a regular basis. “It’s all done under the radar... But it’s the big secret,” the 40-year-old said.

Feldman also claimed that former co-star Corey Haim’s death last year was the end result of sexual abuse by an unnamed “Hollywood mogul.” Feldman said that his friend’s substance addiction was “a symptom” of the molestation he experienced.

The actor previously revealed to GQ that he was raped by his assistant as a child. “It’s something that will be addressed in my inner soul for the rest of my life, and it’s something that truly affects me,” he told the magazine.

Is this a surprise to anyone? Merely homomsexuals seeking the object of their loving obsession.