Posted on 09/10/2017 8:46:16 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
A previously unreleased police report written 10 years after the most infamous incident in the Jerry Sandusky child-rape scandal at Penn State revealed more evidence that Joe Paterno knew about his assistant coach’s horrific behavior before 2001.
The report, which CNN obtained and released Saturday, says when assistant coach Mike McQueary told Paterno he had seen Sandusky with a young boy in the showers at Penn State’s football facility, that the head coach told him it was “the second complaint of this nature he had received.”
After the news broke of Sandusky’s behavior and his arrest, Paterno, his family and many Penn State fans loyal to the winningest coach in NCAA history denied over and over that he had any prior knowledge of Sandusky’s decades-long practice of sexually abusing young boys.
The coach testified under oath that the meeting with McQueary was the first he’d heard of it. His family has continued to defend him after his death.
This police report, which was written in 2011, was never mentioned in court by McQueary or the prosecution, in part because it was that legal team’s strategy to keep the focus on Sandusky and away from Paterno and Penn State. The CNN story reports the prosecution even threatened Sandusky’s lawyers to stay away from it, or they would add even more accusations from Sandusky’s past to his list of charges.
One man testified during a civil trial that he went to Paterno in 1976 to tell him of Sandusky’s molestation and the coach dismissed it, saying, “I have a football season to worry about.”
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Free Republic used to have its own Sons of Paterno who rode to the defense of Ol’ Joe and the Penn State Football program at a moment’s notice.
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I remember one of them posting that the uproar sent poor Joe to an early death. I pointed out that “poor Joe” was 83 years old and had terminal cancer.
I just wish that lowlife scumbag would have lived long enough to see his statue removed. And maybe done some jail time.
Bkmrk.
>>Oh come on, don’t equate Pete’s betting on baseball with Sandusky’s heinous crimes. Are you that dense?<<
It seems to me that you are the one who made the mental gaffe here. He was comparing Pete Rose to Joe Paterno. No one accuses Paterno of the crimes that Sandusky committed. His failure was an ethical one of not reporting the abuse and taking the subsequent fallout to the team. Both Paterno and Rose are guilty of ethical lapses.
He “should” have reported it the first time it was made known to him.
There are some people who take everything literally.
I won’t watch them.
Mike McQueary definitely paid a price for witnessing what Sandusky had done to that kid in the showers. The university basically ruined him. He eventually won a civil case, but not until after he lost his job, all employment prospects and his family. He probably wishes he had that moment back and beat Sandusky to a pulp, then called the cops himself.
Personal opinion: I think that the 'word was out' on Sandusky back in the late '70s. He ran one of the top-ranked defenses in the country, yet never got any serious job offers to be a head coach himself. In the early-80s Fran Ganter, the offensive coordinator, was the heir apparent (and PSU offenses were mediocre). If I'm right, then there were probably people within the NCAA fraternity that heard rumors... and didn't believe them enough to investigate. But it was enough to keep Sandusky from being hired.
My father was born 3 years before Joe Paterno. When I was 13 years old, my Dad and other men of his generation were assembled to investigate (true) charges that our Scoutmaster was molesting boys.
When I think about Joe P., born in 1926, I remember how literally unbelievable these men found the concept of a grown man wanting to have, and having, sexual relations with young boys. These are men who were successful in business and trades, men who had fought in the Pacific and Northern France - by no means babes in the woods.
And yet, the hardest thing for them in getting at the truth was imagining it in the first place.
Men of Joe P.’s generation were not raised drowning in filth, the way most boys and girls are today. Whatever he may have been told about Sandusky, the important thing in terms of his culpability was what he believed, and I’m not one to judge him too harshly in this regard.
‘I have no idea why Penn State is still allowed to have a football program’
what should have happened is PSU de-emphasizing its football program for a period of years, so as to garner public support for its battered reputation...instead, they hired a coach (the cultists ran the first one out of town) with his own scandal, but who can recruit lights out and now they’re ranked 4th in the country, the toast of PA, and everything is coming up rainbows and unicorns in State College...
magis mutant res, magis manent constantes...
Ethics is a moral dilemma. Paterno faced no dilemma. His failure to act was a felonious moral failure.
Penn State football is simply Too Big to Fail.
1976!?!
HOW and WHY did Paterno allow such evil to exist under his nose for literally decades? Is winning football so important that you stand by and allow innocent boys to be horribly violated for thirty years? Soul crushing, spirit breaking life ruining sexual abuse.
What is it Jesus said about harming a child and a mill stone around the neck?
‘According to John Ziegler, Paterno knew nothign about it and Sandusky is not guilty.’
Ziegler is a pompous ass; regardless, I might be on board that Sandusky was overcharged, and his trangressions were less than believed...
but it is indisputable that he used his position as a youth mentor to browbeat young boys into weird, clinging relationships, at times stalking them in order to reestablish a superior-subservient status which may have eroded; FWIW, I believe he was homosexual, and chose ephebophilia to express his sexuality in a controlling manner...
‘its hearsay.’
you don’t know what ‘hearsay’ is, do you...?
I’m not following your logic...
‘Penn State football is simply Too Big to Fail.’
that’s true now; an economic crisis would be the result, at least in central PA, if PSU football even just slacked off, much less disappeared, but it wasn’t always that way...
before Paterno and his mentor Rip Engle arrived in 1950, PSU was content in playing the likes of Bucknell and Holy Cross, Lehigh and Colgate, at a stadium in the middle of the campus seating about 30,000, a nice way to spend a Saturday afternoon, but no monetary monster...Engle upgraded the schedule, with good results, establishing PSU as an eastern powerhouse, and created Beaver Stadium, eventually more than doubling the seating; Paterno upgraded the program into national prominence, and the rest is history...the difference between PSU and SMU is stark; SMU could have shuttered football forever, and the Dallas area would have yawned and moved on-—PSU, well, the whole state of PA might have shut down...
Same reason why they won’t give Baylor the Death Penalty. The Waco economy would collapse.
But I was very happy to see that Baylor lost to UT-San Antonio on Saturday. They probably wish they got the DP after that.
SMU got the death penalty. PSU, got a slap on the back.
There will never be another school that gets the death penalty now. All they have to do is say “Are we wore than Penn State?”
‘The Waco economy would collapse.’
not really; Baylor was as bush league as it gets for years before Briles, famous for its 1-10 records and monstrous fan base disguised as empty seats...Waco did just fine with irrelevant Baylor football...
‘But I was very happy to see that Baylor lost to UT-San Antonio on Saturday.’
not surprising; but for a bad bounce, UTSA would have beaten Arizona State last year...
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