consider this scenario: a police sergeant is in charge of a 10 man shift for 15 years. suddenly, two of his officers are indicted for taking bribes over the last eight years and the sergeant immediately tells anyone who'll listen that he knew absolutely nothing about their illegal activity. would any of you believe him? could someone possibly be in charge that long and not be aware? wouldn't someone have said something? i can tell you from experience that the sergeant would be held responsible for what went on during his watch and disciplined accordingly. probably not charged criminally but certainly held responsible, suspended and probably demoted. in any case, his career would be done.
JOE PATERNO'S case at penn state university is even worse than the police sergeant because he WAS TOLD about the problem and 1) broke the law as an educator by not reporting it to family services, not to mention that 2) he allowed the predator to continue coaching AND running youth camps on campus and 3) failed to notify the police.
i don't care if paterno is 84 years old or 104 or how long he coached at the school; he should be arrested and charged with at least three different crimes that i can think of AND he should be stripped of his pension because he was AWARE of the crimes and failed to report them which makes him an accessory to the forty felonies of which his assistant was charged.
they sent illinois' former governor, GEORGE RYAN, to prison for eight years because he was AWARE of wrongdoing and did nothing about it. why should paterno get a walk? he could have saved dozens of children from a lifetime of nightmares if he had done the right thing TWENTY YEARS AGO so now it's time for him to have some nightmares of his own.
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I agree completely. Joe Paterno's lack of response is horrendous. It was his job to protect these children. Yes, he reported it to Tim Curley, who did nothing (and he should be arrested and prosecuted too), but once action wasn't taken at that level, he should have taken it himself and reported it to authorities.
The comments in the news of people supporting him is baffling to me. "He was the best football coach ever," "like a dad,"etc....so what? That didn't give him the right to knowingly ignore what was happening and do the wrong thing...
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