Reply #10: Joe Paterno went to his boss, Tim Curley [View All]

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Within the letter of the law, this was his designated action. Curley and Schulz covered it up, according to the indictments.

That said, Paterno did the minimum possible. Essentially, the graduate assistant came to Paterno's house and told him that he'd seen Jerry Sandusky raping a ten year old boy iy in the football team's practice facility showers. And all Paterno did was report that to Curley. If you call *that* "whistleblowing," I'll leave you to it, but it seems a slim action indeed.

And nothing happened. The police never came to see Paterno about what the graduate assistant had told him. Sandusky was never seemingly brought in for questioning. No scandal ricked tiny State College, where Sandusky's charity is one of the biggest in town, and hosts a massive golf tournament every summer that brings in the Who's Who of the wealthy State College community. Nada. Nothing happened. And this didn't strike Paterno as odd? It may not have been his legal duty to do anything more than move the accusation up the line to Curley, but is there no moral responsibility here? This event happened in 2002. Sandusky continued to rape and abuse boys throughout the following seven years, at least, allegedly.

And what about before that? Why did Sandusky retire suddenly in 1999? Could he really have worked alongside these people for 30 years, and just started with these actions in the mid-1990's, per the indictment? Come on. He founded the Second Mile (for "troubled" teenaged and pre-teen boys) in 1977. He waited 17 years to start with the abuse?

Bad. Bad. Bad.