Seriously, I'd like to know. I have no reason to protect Paterno, but I wonder why everyone is carrying on like the old guy himself is a pedophile. If there is evidence that Paterno knew Sandusky was raping boys but didn't report it, I would've thought he'd be charged with the athletic & finance directors.
If you know anything I don't please share.
Did he ever even go up to Sandusky, a personal friend he worked with for 30 years, and confront him about it?
“If there is evidence that Paterno knew Sandusky was raping boys but didn’t report it, I would’ve thought he’d be charged with the athletic & finance directors.”
Evidence? It is documented that at least the following knew ...
People we know that knew Sandusky raped little boys.
President Spanier
AD Curley
VP Schultz
PSU Attorney Wendell Courtney
Second Mile Attorney Wendell Courtney
University Police (Detective Ronald Schreffler)
State College Police (Detective Ralph Ralston)
Department of Welfare (Investigator Jerry Lauro)
Child Services
County DA Gricar
County Prosecutors
Coach McQueary
Coach Paterno
Various elementary and high school officials
John DiNunzio (Keystone Central School District Interim Superintendent)
Second Mile officials
Joe Paterno’s staff including down to the janitors
Well, my initial reaction Monday afternoon was to lump Paterno in with the A.D. & VP, too. FREEPER poster Scoutmaster pinged me with the following...and I think he's probably right:
Under 23 Pa. C.S. Section 6311, which is the Pennsylvania Child Protective Services Law, when a staff member reports abuse, the person in charge of a school or institution must notify the Department of Public Welfare by telephone and in writing within 48 hours. Joe Paterno isn't the person in charge of Penn State; his obligations to report Sadusky to legal authorities were moral and not legal.
Since then, I focused on Paterno's JOB -- not prosecuting him.
But keep in mind -- the above is the "bare minimum" for legal considerations. They don't begin to address moral and ethical obligations.
In my mind, Paterno broke NCAA bylaws...including 2.4 which mandates responsibility off the field as well as on the field. He flunked responsibility.
ESPN interviewed the head of the NCAA today. He said that AFTER the criminal investigations had been completed, they would sweep in to evaluate what ethical/NCAA bylaws had been violated.
Btw, the more serious of the two charges vs. the AD & VP is perjury -- lying to a Grand Jury.