It had enough facts...in fact, if you look just past the "Intro" of the Grand Jury Presentment, you'll see the heading, "Finding of Fact."
And you'll see enough on p. 7 from Paterno to "hang himself" job wise.
If you were a owner of a given company, and your key manager had an incredible positive record, but helter skelter suddenly broke loose under his watch and you discover he concedes to a fire-able offense, guess what? You fire him!
You don't have to immediately come up with a comprehensive checklist to try to retrieve your company from helter skelter. You clean house; and then put it in order.
Now let's very briefly look at what Paterno himself did as a "volunteer goat"...
#1 Dereliction of duty.
When a person in a position of trust and authority fails to ensure that a college to report campus criminal offenses, they have failed to comply with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (the Clery Act).
This act doesn't mandate that this info be passed on to "superiors"; rather, it it mandates that the college reports it.
Paterno can speak; write; talk. He knows how to communicate. If you're an officer in battle and the one you report to within your platoon turns yellow and stops fighting, it doesn't mean you retreat into a fox hole until your leaders decide to act like leaders. No, you're an officer, too. You need to pick up the slack, mister.
This wussy 'tudinalness' that people project past-tense onto Paterno wouldn't even survive a hot summer day of his own football training readiness reps he's imposed on his players. Man up and quit yellow xcusing.
#2 He violated lack of responsibility ethics mandated by the NCAA under its bylaws...
2.4, for example...the NCAA prez has said he is going to wait for the Penn State criminal investigations to finish before they come in to impose ethical violations per their bylaws.
But just because the NCAA is going to wait, it was already as plain as day to the Board of Trustees that Paterno had ethical breeches under 2.4 of the NCAA bylaws: The Principles of Sportsmanship and Ethical Conduct. For intercollegiate athletics to promote the character development of participants, to enhance the integrity of higher education and to promote civility in society, student-athletes, coaches, and all others associated with these athletics programs and events should adhere to such fundamental values as respect, fairness, civility, honesty and responsibility. These values should be manifest not only in athletics participation but also in the broad spectrum of activities affecting the athletics program.
Paterno failed on both the responsibility and honesty ethics. Secrets remain sequestered away at the expense of boys.
#3 Moral lapses
There seems to be near unanimity here, so I won't belabor this too much.
Think of any felony committed in the showers of Penn State that Paterno finds out about almost instantly...and then tell me why it's not a good reason to rescue the victim.
Domestic abuse? What? The beater won't beat again?
Murder & body disposal? What? Is reporting this to your superiors "enough"?
The rape of a 10 yo girl in progress? (One of the few things missing here is feminists jumping all over Penn State's case...had they done this, look out!)
I think of the opportunity lost.
Had the police been brought in the next day, they could have started by viewing the security cameras...maybe a shot of the boy walking in/out of the building with him.
Take that image over to the second mile offices and start with the questions.
It shouldn’t have been all that difficult to find him quickly and get him to the hospital.
Funny how that one meeting didn’t take place FOR A WHOLE WEEK afterwards huh?
It’s almost like they really didn’t have any interest in finding the boy right?