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Joe Paterno appears to have played a greater role than previously known in Penn States handling of a 2001 report that Jerry Sandusky had sexually assaulted a boy in a university shower, according to a person with knowledge of aspects of an independent investigation of the Sandusky scandal.
E-mail correspondence among senior Penn State officials suggests that Paterno influenced the universitys decision not to formally report the accusation against Sandusky to child welfare authorities, the person said. The universitys failure to alert the police or child welfare authorities in 2001 has been an issue at the center of the explosive scandal having led to criminal charges against two senior administrators and the firing of Paterno last fall.
The universitys much maligned handling of the 2001 assault began when Mike McQueary, a graduate assistant in Paternos football program, told Paterno that he had seen Sandusky assaulting a boy of about 10 in the football building showers. McQueary has testified several times that he made clear to Paterno, and later to university officials, that what he had seen Sandusky doing to the child was terrible and explicitly sexual in nature.
To date, the public understanding of Paternos subsequent actions has been that he relayed McQuearys account to the universitys athletic director and then had no further involvement in the matter.
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Not reporting the accusation to the authorities, the men determined, was the more humane way to deal with Sandusky, according to the e-mails.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/sports/ncaafootball/paterno-may-have-influenced-decision-not-to-report-sandusky-e-mails-indicate.html?_r=1&hpw
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Not reporting when you are a mandatory reporter is HUGE.
If all of this is indeed in writing, they are in a world of shit, and rightfully so.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)I figured they picked this putz because he would cover up for them.
unblock
(52,511 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)handle it so the higher-ups did...right...it has Holy Joe's fingerprints all over it.
Initech
(100,152 posts)malaise
(269,353 posts)Did he really die or did he just do a Ken Lay - the timing was rather suspicious despite his age