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Originally Posted by Can't Know
If someone actually KNEW, I agree with you.
HOWEVER, a potentially slanderous report from someone else is NOT knowledge, it's unfounded allegation. Calling the cops at that point might be reckless or worse, you have to look at all of the circumstances.
As I said, if Jopa actually knew something and did nothing more than report it, it's reprehensible. But if not, there is no reason to repeat slanderous, damaging rumors, to the police or anyone else.
And that's the whole point. When you hear some slanderous thing about someone, how far are you expected to go with it? Apparently PS had some manner of procedure in place, and it seems Paterno followed through with that by forwarding what he had heard (again, not his own actual knowledge, just what he heard). Are you saying it was not reasonable for him to assume that the superiors would follow through to be sure it wasn't anything more than an ugly allegation? If nothing came from it, it seems he might have reasonably concluded that there was nothing to it beyond a vicious slur against a coach.
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What is the downside to alerting the police? They find nothing and go away?
It's a moot point anyway, Paterno did know. McQueary (the current WR coach then coaching assistant), according to his own grand jury testimony, walked in on Sandusky having anal sex with a young boy in the shower. McQueary walked out, called his father and asked his father what to do. His father told him to get out of there. He later told Paterno what he saw. Paterno admits that McQueary told him something, he just doesn't recall if it was "fondling, touching or horsing around." Bottom line is Paterno knew Sandusky was naked in the showers with a young boy and chose not to alert the police. Or, if you take Paterno at his word that he did what was required by reporting it to the administration, how does he not follow up on that to see if anything came of any investigation? How does anyone just drop it all together and continue on, with Sandusky visiting the facilities on a regular basis, like nothing every happened?
And somehow or another, that spineless P.O.S. McQueary will be coaching on the sidelines as Penn State takes on Nebraska. It's beyond me how the f--- that can be allowed to happen.