Penn State...what did Paterno know?

[Panthro]

They should let every kid from Penn State transfer without penalty.

[4Corners]

Panthro that State game hurt big time dude. I'd be willing to bet that it also cost Withers the coaching gig next season and saved TOB for one more year.

[Panthro]

TOB is becoming the Jon Bunting of NC State....anywhosie

The program should fold after this year for a minimum of 5 years. That stadium should stand empty as a reminder of what happened there.

[Happy Panther]

Unless I have completely missed something, JoePa never alerted police. That's the crux of the issue here.

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He specifically had a meeting with the guy who was in charge of campus police. I don't know the official title or his thought process but I can see why Paterno may have thought he had sufficiently alerted the authorities.

[Carolina Husker]

Fire Paterno yes, but you can't cancel the rest of the season. The players on the team had nothing to do with and thats not fair to them especially with them having as good a season as they are. And this had nothing to do with the football program anyways. Sandusky wasn't a coach, his office wasn't in the football complex and from all reports he didn't have much contact with Paterno or the team. He was on campus and had communication with the AD to schedule his camps.

I also want to know the mothers of these kids say that Sandusky admitted to them that he touched them a long time ago why didn't the moms go to the police, and if they did why wasn't something done here? Am I missing something from the articles?

The moms were going to the police as early as 1998. Supposedly he was heard confessing to the crimes at his home in 1999, but the original case was dropped (they're still digging into this) and the DA was later killed and his laptop was dumped in a river. Victims after the 2002 (the year Paterno knew) incident reported him again, and the case was reopened in 2006. The indictment that came out this week is the result of that 4 year investigation.

[Guest]

They should let every kid from Penn State transfer without penalty.

What fans could show up for their game Saturday? I'd throw up.

[Carolina Husker]

He specifically had a meeting with the guy who was in charge of campus police. I don't know the official title or his thought process but I can see why Paterno may have thought he had sufficiently alerted the authorities.

No he didn't.

Paterno did what he was legally obligated to do – he informed his boss, athletic director Tim Curley, about the allegation the following day.

He did nothing else though, and a lack of action that has been criticized by many, including the Pennsylvania law enforcement entity that eventually charged Sandusky with dozens of counts of abuse of a minor and Curley and a school vice president for perjury and failure to report the abuse

It's only because he alerted Curley that he's not under arrest for perjury and failure to report abuse. Had he told a police officer, this wouldn't be nearly the shitstorm for him, and it's pretty safe to assume Sandusky's rape spree would have ended 9 nears ago.

Wetzel

[ladypanther]

I did not realize the incident was witnessed in 2002. There is no way to defend anyone who let him stay around. They need to clean house at Penn State.

[The_Cannon]

He specifically had a meeting with the guy who was in charge of campus police. I don't know the official title or his thought process but I can see why Paterno may have thought he had sufficiently alerted the authorities.

I know at UNC Charlotte the campus police are trained Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officers so if its the same at PSU this is horrible. The whole thing is horrible. The fact that the mothers went to the police and dude confessed and nothing happened is sickening. The fact that a grad student saw it and did nothing until the next day is sickening. The fact JoePa told the AD and the police and nothing happened is sick. They just need to bomb State College and start over. I'm a Joe Paterno fan but the more I watch ESPN and the more I read the more I can't see him surviving this nor should he.

[Kitten Diver]

the AD & President have more blood on their hands than Joe, but it all goes back to the fact that there was no leadership at PSU because of the cult-like atmosphere that had been build around Paterno and his bizarre quest to win more games than Eddie Robinson & Bobby Bowden.

THIS.

And say what you want about Bowden and what he let the Criminoles get away with in his day, but I highly doubt he wouldnt beat the poo out of anyone he found raping little kids. Same goes for lispin Lou, the Ol ball coach or any decent human being.

[Carolina Husker]

I did not realize the incident was witnessed in 2002. There is no way to defend anyone who let him stay around. They need to clean house at Penn State.

"Stay around" is a nice way of putting it.

He retained an office and a salary from the Second Mile Foundation in the Penn State athletic offices, ran overnight camps for boys age 9-14 on PSU campuses, brought young boys with him to stay in his hotel room for away games, and was using the training and weight room facility as late last week.

[Happy Panther]

It's pretty straight-forward and all in the report. Paterno was told directly by McQueary in 2002 that he had witnessed Sandusky anally raping a 10 year old boy. .

Are you all ******* high? Joe was told directly by a former player, team captain and current assistant that he witnessed another employee raping a 10 year old in the team's lockerroom, told his direct superior,

If you read the report this is not true. Or at least not described as you say it.

He was told about "something of a sexual nature" and "folding." While still disgusting it is not clear from the report exactly what Joe was told.

[Epistaxis]

HP, there is no way Joe didn't know.

[Happy Panther]

No he didn't.

Yes he did.

He initially told Curley and a few days later specifically had a sit down meeting with Curly and Schulz who was in charge of the police.