Paterno had the obligation to report this to the police. Paterno accepted and enabled the crimes. His name should be removed from anything associated with the university, beginning with that awful statue.
Paterno was to report it to law enforcement....
To the same campus police and local State College police who had already covered up and refused to investigate previous Sandusky child-rapes?
In fact, since the incident in 2002 happened on campus...Paterno would have reported it to the PSU Campus Police...who were under the authority of the PSU President Spanier. Dirt...meet rug you are being swept under
This is the tired MSM cunard to try to hang JoePa....when he did probably the best thing he could...with the cops already covering for Sandusky
“Paterno accepted and enabled the crimes”
Let’s face the facts. The whole of the actions of Penn State personnel was to “protect” their football program. They did it at the expense of who knows just how many young, innocent boys. Right now with Freeh “on the job,” the mission is to try and get the rest of the $hit back in the horse. Curley, Shultz and Spannier should all be tried based on what is already known about their actions (or more correctly inactions). But now with Sandusky put away, I am sure Freeh is going to give us the “move along, nothing else to see here, we need to get Penn State’s football program up and running again” spiel.
We know the police had been investigating Sandusky as early as 98. Ray Gricar (now legally dead) was the DA and he chose NOT to prosecute Sandusky. There must have been a reason why...
That said, in a town where football is king and everybody knows everything I don't understand how this was such an open secret. There are a lot more layers to peel back on this onion.
Exactly!