(11-10-2011 09:41 AM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(11-10-2011 09:36 AM)bladhmadh Wrote:  

(11-10-2011 09:20 AM)Eagleweiser Wrote:  Hard to think about trashing Joe Pa unless he specifically was aware of the situation and covered it up.

He was and he did

I know that "new facts" are coming out on this story almost by the hour, but I haven't heard that from any media-source. what I've heard is that Paterno did not witness anything but was told by a grad-assistant that some bad sh*t happened. And Paterno told either the A.D. or school president, or both. Now, just so we're clear, I think that is an incredibly lame response. I think Paterno should have -- minimum -- instructed the GA to contact the police, and then followed up to make sure the GA did so. But that is not the same thing as "covering it up", IMHO

The 2002 incident you are referring to where McQueary allegedly walked in on Sandusky sodomizing a 10 year old boy wasn't the first.

In 2000, the year after Sandusky retired, two janitors said they saw Sandusky hold a young boy against a wall while forcibly preforming oral sex on him.

Before that, a mother contacted State College police about Sandusky, but the cops never sought criminal charges.

Paterno wasn't just the head coach, he was a board member of The Second Mile, the charity Sandusky used to lure boys as young as six years old. That charity was started by Sandusky in 1977. You really believe he just started abusing kids out of the blue in the 1990's? More likely, it was much earlier...he just got more brazen about where he choose to abuse the children.

Even if 2002 was the first he had heard of it...why was Sandusky still walking around campus and in the locker rooms with kids as late as 2008, and showering by himself in 2011? Why was Sandusky still getting $58,000 a year from Penn State even after 2002?

Paterno ruled that campus for 46 years...there's no way he didn't know about the mother's report to police in the 1998 (funny that Sandusky retired shortly after), what the janitors saw in 2000, and the 2002 incident.
So, that's three chances, at least, that were missed, not just once.

Once is a mistake. Three and it's on purpose.