RIP Joe Paterno

I can assure you that if I were in a high ranking position and someone brought such egregious actions to my attention I would go to the police. We are not talking about a violation of company policy here, we are talking about CHILD RAPE!

 

or for the sake of another example:

Employee: "I just witnessed John Doe murder someone in the bathroom"
Supervisor: "Ok, I'll tell my boss. Have a nice day."
Employee: "Ok, thanks you too."

Halloween, is this acceptable because it was pushed up the chain of command?

 

Exactly, Penn State isn't the Military, there was no code red ordered. We are talking about raping, and molesting children here, not some schmo stealing tests, or textbooks, or drug violations.

You get wind of this you take it to the police immediately.

 

Don't forget, "I'll watch this man regularly bring kids into the PSU Football locker room, but I won't think much of it. I'm sure the kids' families are aware that Jerry is at best a perv, at worst a pedophile."

 

This is what I got out of it all as well. Joe Pa was Penn State, so in essence he was more worried about his own reputation than the health and well being of innocent children. Absolutely UNFORGIVEABLE!

 

You might try reading this LAST INTERVIEW if you care: Joe Paterno’s first interview since the Penn State-Sandusky scandal - The Washington Post

Here is an extract for those that are to busy:

“He was very upset and I said why, and he was very reluctant to get into it,” Paterno said. “He told me what he saw, and I said, what? He said it, well, looked like inappropriate, or fondling, I’m not quite sure exactly how he put it. I said you did what you had to do. It’s my job now to figure out what we want to do. So I sat around. It was a Saturday. Waited till Sunday because I wanted to make sure I knew what I was doing. And then I called my superiors and I said: ‘Hey, we got a problem, I think. Would you guys look into it?’ Cause I didn’t know, you know. We never had, until that point, 58 years I think, I had never had to deal with something like that. And I didn’t feel adequate.”

At that point, Paterno set up a meeting for McQueary and Curley, the athletic director, and Schultz, who oversaw university police. McQueary has testified that he gave both men a far more graphic description of what he witnessed, which he believed to be Sandusky sodomizing a boy of about 10, who had his hands against the shower wall. At the preliminary hearing for Curley and Schultz on Dec. 16, McQueary said he had been reluctant to go into similar “great detail about sexual acts” with Paterno, out of respect for the coach, who was 75 at the time.

 

Ya know, it gets lost in all the hoopla, that JoPa was not the one who walked in on Sandusky! If anyone had an obligation to go to the state police, it was mclary. Mclary went to JoPa, and JoPa told him he needed to report this. Then JoPa called his boss and told him about mclarys story.

Bottom line, anything that JoPa said would have been hearsay, as he was not a material witness.