Apache;2030068; said:
Let's say Coach Sandusky is innocent of these allegations. If that were the case when he knew of the accusations, he should have immediately gone to the police and told them of these accusations. He could have told them that these were unfounded and false. He could have initiated the investigation by himself. However, failure to do so will always lead people to believe the accuser.
This guy>
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/08/02/Missing-prosecutor-declared-dead/UPI-41441312261957/
is reported to have been the prosecutor who declined to pursue prosecution. This is after he heard a telephone tape of Sandusky apologizing to the mother of the victim, virtually admitting the abuse.
In spite of the shower incident revelation, Sandusky was
still permitted on the grounds of Penn State with a child in tow, reportedly as recently as 2009. Furthermore, there is this,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/sports/ncaafootball/penn-states-paterno-is-not-a-target-in-sexual-abuse-inquiry.html
including this paragraph of note:
"Even after Sandusky 'made admissions about inappropriate contact in the shower room' in 1998 to the Penn State campus police, 'Nothing happened,' Noonan said. 'Nothing stopped.'
"He said that janitors witnessed a sexual act in the football facility's showers two years later, and still ?nothing changed, nothing stopped,' because the janitors feared for their jobs and did not report the incident. Then, in 2002, according to prosecutors, another sex act involving Sandusky and a young boy was witnessed by a Penn State graduate assistant coach, who reported it to Coach Joe Paterno yet the police still were not contacted."
The "graduate assistant" repeatedly referred to in the article is, of course, current Penn State wide receivers coach Mike McQueary. In 2002, he was a
28-year-old man at the time he witnessed the abuse. Gotta ask: Just how many of you, walking in on a man molesting a child (in the shower incident, said to have been a 10- or 11-year-old boy), have as your first thought "I'm gonna call my dad as soon as I get home." When is he going to explain why he did nothing to intervene? And once the report was made to Paterno, what possible justification can old Joe find for his weak response? Joe Boylan penned a rage-filled article about this:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/929863-penn-state-football-the-complicity-of-joe-paterno-and-mike-mcqueary
This is a supernova that has just begun to explode. The repercussions from the negligence and cover-up, the outright perjury by Curley & Schultz, never mind the disregard for the safety and future of countless children that might have been spared had those in power chosen to act instead of cower, is just beginning to ripple out. More and more, it appears that among those ripples there is not one atom of innocence, except for the innocent children abandoned to the clutches of Sandusky.
(IMHO)
side note:
Relativity being what it is, those Pryor tats are starting to look downright
beautiful.
