Emails show Paterno talked to PSU officials & they nixed going to the authorities about abuse
A CNN report aired Friday night detailed how former Penn State officials responded to then-graduate assistant Mike McQueary's 2001 account of Jerry Sandusky's abuse of a boy in the Nittany Lion locker room with an exchange of e-mails and, eventually, a failure to report the incident to state authorities.
According to CNN sources, e-mails show that vice president Gary Schultz, athletic director Tim Curley, and president Graham Spanier had initially settled on a plan in which they would speak with "the subject" -- Sandusky -- as well as his Second Mile charity and the Department of Welfare.
Those emails took place 16 days after McQueary offered his account. But Curley backed out of that plan in a second e-mail exchange.
"After giving it more thought and talking it over with Joe [Paterno] yesterday," CNN quoted Curley from an obtained e-mail, "I am uncomfortable with what we agreed were the next steps. I am having trouble with going to everyone, but the person involved."
Curley later emailed that if the athletic department could "work with" Sandusky and get him "professional help," they could avoid going to either Second Mile or the Department of Welfare. In an e-mail CNN reports was sent two hours later, Spanier agreed with that plan.
“I am supportive,” Spanier was quoted as writing. “The only downside for us if the message isn't heard and acted upon, and then we become vulnerable for not having reported it.”
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more here:
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/blog/eye-on-college-football/19449273
Paterno can rot wherever he is.
As for the rest, Hang 'Em High!
That entire athletic department should be cleaned out because there are still many people who have been working there for a long time. I'll bet a lot of them knew something. They deserve the SMU treatment until it's scrubbed. This is worse.
To those who say that SMU was different because they gained a competitive advantage, PSU gained years to operate without the scandal that finally ensued.
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