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So someone who SEES a rape, and someone who KNOWS someone raped AND PROTECTS THEM FOR YEARS is ‘less guilty’ to you.

I pray that none of your children are ever preyed upon. Then you won’t be as ‘fair’ about those who aided and abetted the perpetrator-thus allowing him to attack other children.

The ‘recognizable names’ here enabled this behavior.So now Paterno is a ‘victim’ of his icon status!!!??

You make my point.
The ‘stardom’ of these people is more important than the violated children.

A no-name in Paterno's position wouldn't be accused of the same things Paterno is being accused of. No one would think twice about their role.

So you make MY point. I guarantee half the people out there hearing these reports share your opinion that Paterno was 'protecting' the rapist. Even though there is no such evidence.

So someone who SEES a rape,

is a witness and is obliged to report and testify about it.

and someone who KNOWS someone raped

and has nothing about which to testify doesn't "know" someone was raped. And remember, hearsay is generally not admissible in court.

AND PROTECTS THEM FOR YEARS

Is a pretty rotten person but how, specifically, did Paterno protect Sandusky? He pushed Sandusky out after the '98 investigation ended with no charges being filed, and he passed on the information regarding the 2002 case to people who should be presumed to be have been better able to investigate it than an 80-year-old football coach. And while they didn't take him out to the woods and shoot him like they should have, or call police like the should have, they did put new restrictions on his behavior to the point which appears to at least have been somewhat effective as there were no further reports of locker room abuse as per the Grand Jury report.

The act that brought Sandusky down occurred off campus.