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Alright you are the boss and someone on your staff told you he saw your colleague in the shower with a child and you don't ask for details?  Come on. It's his **** locker room and if Paterno didn't bar him from the locker room at that time and call the police he is lower than a snake's belly.  Period.

 

Perjury and failure to report charges were also filed against university Athletic Director Tim Curley and Vice President for business and finance, Gary Schultz, after prosecutors say they ignored a report in 2002 from then-graduate assistant Mike McQueary that McQueary had witnessed Sandusky performing a sex act with a boy in the Penn State football locker room.

Paterno, 84, told Curley about what McQueary witnessed, but said in his statement that he was never told the specifics of what McQueary saw.

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"As my grand jury testimony stated, I was informed in 2002 by an assistant coach that he had witnessed an incident in the shower of our locker room facility. It was obvious that the witness was distraught over what he saw, but he at no time related to me the very specific actions contained in the Grand Jury report. Regardless, it was clear that the witness saw something inappropriate involving Mr. Sandusky. As Coach Sandusky was retired from our coaching staff at that time, I referred the matter to university administrators."

 

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The jockaholic culture, which elevates big college sports to a wildly inappropriate level of prominence, is a part of the reason that this evil incident was under-reported and whitewashed. Football is EVERYTHING at Penn State.  Joe Paterno did the bare minimum required under law relative to reporting this sordid incident in the shower.  He failed, however, to do what is required of an upright and moral person in a leadership position in such circumstances.  Who knows how much more of this perversion went on in the 7 or 8 years that the slimy predator was allowed to use the university facilities and to have access to young boys? 

 

Watch for the multimillion-dollar civil lawsuits that will come out of this!  Penn State should pay through the nose!

Can you believe this tripe?  Never mind that he looked the other way after someone buggered a little boy in his locker room.  Really?

 

Hundreds of Penn State students spilled into the streets of State College in what started as an apparent celebration of Paterno, but it turned into a riot. The crowd tipped over a news van and decried the media in anger over Paterno's departure.

Penn State's Daily Collegian newspaper reported that "thousands of students gathered at Old Main at around 10:30 p.m., chanting "f--- the trustees" and "we want Joe."

"We stand united as students. We don't care what anyone else has to say. We want Joe," the Collegian quoted a student named Jimmy Gallagher as saying.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/10/...index.html?hpt=hp_t1

The Penn State students protesting Paterno's dismissal just might be persuaded to change their minds should they take the trouble to read the findings of the grand jury that describe the reported actions of Coach Sandusky and of other irresponsible university officials and the lackluster performance of Paterno in this sick sorry episode.   Read up on this if you can stand it.  Have a barf bag at the ready.

 

http://www.attorneygeneral.gov...Jury-Presentment.pdf

Hubby and I went to Penn State. Up til now the sports program has been pretty squeeky clean. The cover up is so sad. Joe Paterno is a good man; for the life of me I don't understand why he didn't do more.

 

As for the beanhead students that rioted-- they're about 20 years old, their whole life is college, they don't have kids and so aren't thinking of the innocent victims.

 

One good thing that will come out of this is that people will now be more likely to report child abuse, I hope.

 

I keep hearing that there is more to come in the scandel and I'm wondering how much worse it can get.

There aren't sufficient words to describe how shameful the situation is.

 

Common sense tells you that in one or more discussions by PS administrators, a decision was made to cover up what they knew.  If Paterno had as much influence on all university matters as sources familiar with PS say he did, then you have to believe he agreed with the decision. 

 

And I think Curley and Schultz lied to the grand jury about the extent of what they were told.  Can anyone believe for one minute that they heard "inappropriate sexual conduct" and didn't ask "what do you mean, exactly?"  Actually, it would have been their responsibility to find out.

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