Quote Originally Posted by Gregoshi View Post
According to the grand jury report, the 2002 McQueary incident is the only one of which Paterno was informed. The earlier incidents seemed to have gone through other channels - the State College (town) and university police. The other Penn State incident with the janitor was never reported reported to police - only his fellow janitors and supervisor. In a third case reported outside the university via the victim's mother, the university police appeared to be aware of the investigation and requested that the State College police drop, which, for whatever reason, they did. Of the eight victims, those three were the only ones in which the university had some level of involvement via a reported crime.

According known information from the grand jury report, Paterno was in the loop on one and he reported it. This is why many Penn State students, alumi and fans are still supporting him and are rather irrate over his firing. The national outrage over his (in)action is based on 1) assumption that he knew more, and 2) hindsight (Monday morning quarterbacking?) of the full and very graphic testimony of eight victims/incidents of the grand jury report. If further investigation reveals Paterno was involved, knew more and was involved in a cover up, then I will drop my support for him and toss his shattered image into the Funeral Pyre of Disillusionment and Innocence. Until then, he has my full support cultivated from a lifetime of outstanding contributions and service to Penn State and the betterment of its students.
Nope, sorry Gregoshi. Paterno doesn't get off the hook for doing his "job" and then leaving it well be. This isn't some allegation about stealing, this about child rape. Sanduski had been exposed for doing this kind of stuff since the late 90s, there is no way that Paterno, the head organizer, would not know all about this. Then for someone to come along and say that they caught Sandusky, mid rape, inside a 10 year old boy, and Paterno does what? He just tells his superior and goes back to his job? This was not some "isolated event" that Paterno could not have made a judgement call about. This was about Sandusky's perversion happening again, after it had already been long known, and long swept under the table by the university. If Paterno was a good man, he should have called the police. What was Paterno thinking when this event was swept under the rug, and Sandusky wasn't charged with anything? When Sandusky was still able to walk among the campus as if nothing had happened? Paterno was an enabler who didn't do the right thing, for whatever lame reason. He deserved to be fired, and to stick up for him because "of all the good he has done for Penn State" is ******* tribalism at its greatest, no better than the 2,000 students tipping over cars, rioting.

Grand jury report showed this pedophile committing heinous crimes since the late 90s, and all these Penn State apologists come out on every forum I frequent talking about Paterno as if he was some scapegoat who had nooooooo idea about what was going on in his own **** football program. It's disgusting.