Penn State Scandal Thread

[Steelerfan2k1]

I have looked around for a thread on this, but haven't seen one yet. Sorry if this is old news.

But - this is just devastating. I am a huge Pitt fan, but have always had great respect for Penn State's program and can't believe that something like this could happen there.

I was hoping that someone on here might be able to shed some light on this. I just can't believe that something like this would have happened at Penn State.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...rjury-sex-case

[Jasong7777]

Re: Penn State Football - Jerry Sandusky Arrested, AD Tim Curley Charged

Sickening

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[Travis40]

Re: Penn State Football - Jerry Sandusky Arrested, AD Tim Curley Charged

Everyone that is currently at PSU that knew about this, and didn't report it to the authorites should be fired. And that includes Paterno. This is absolutely sickening.

[Psyblast]

Re: Penn State Football - Jerry Sandusky Arrested, AD Tim Curley Charged

Read details earlier...this is heinous. Lots of people will be in trouble here.

[Tovarich]

Re: Penn State Football - Jerry Sandusky Arrested, AD Tim Curley Charged

Everyone that is currently at PSU that knew about this, and didn't report it to the authorites should be fired. And that includes Paterno. This is absolutely sickening.

Article said Paterno reported it to the AD after hearing about one incident.

[Psyblast]

Re: Penn State Football - Jerry Sandusky Arrested, AD Tim Curley Charged

Article said Paterno reported it to the AD after hearing about one incident.

It's not an NCAA violation. It's a perverse criminal offense. You don't report that to the AD.

[Travis40]

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Article said Paterno reported it to the AD after hearing about one incident.

It should've also been reported to the police. It's ridiculous that NOBODY at PSU contacted the police. Child molestation shouldn't be handled as an internal issue at Penn State.

EDIT: Here's the Att Gen link. There are some VERY disturbing details in this.

http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/uploadedFiles/Press/Sandusky-Grand-Jury-Presentment.pdf

[Tovarich]

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It's not an NCAA violation. It's a perverse criminal offense. You don't report that to the AD.

It still pertains to a university employee. No one's going after Paterno, just the AD and another administrator, so apparently no one thinks he did anything wrong. One of the mom's of the kids reported it to the high school when she found out. If even relatives aren't going to police with it and choosing to go to school admins, then Paterno doing the same seems fine to me.

[Steelerfan2k1]

Re: Penn State Football - Jerry Sandusky Arrested, AD Tim Curley Charged

Ok - the part of the story on Paterno's reaction really astonishes me. Over the years, we have heard lots of stories about how he has personally gone to great lengths to punish players who have had discipline problems and basically gone to great lengths to have zero tolerance for any shady recruiting practices - both among his coaching staff and his recruits.

As such, I find it absolutely astounding that he heard of a legitimate incident involving Sandusky sexually assaulting a kid in Penn State's locker room - yet the only thing he did was call his AD. You're telling me that he didn't call Sandusky on this?????

Am I missing something here?

[Tovarich]

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And a grad assistant see something directly himself, and he chooses to go to Paterno instead of police too. Janitor sees something himself, he doesn't go to police either. If Paterno didn't see anything directly himself, I don't blame him for not going to police, all these relatives of the alleged victims and the people who saw it directly should have done that long before Paterno ever found out about it.

[AUChase]

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This is some ridiculous, sickening ****.

[Sportsbuck]

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Sickening.

Given how OSU, Miami, USC, etc have been raked over the coals for NCAA violations, PSU deserves whatever comes their way. Absolutely ridculous that this isn't a bigger story than it is.

[Buckeyes_Doc]

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I just can't grasp why the police were not contacted. That is ridiculous, there is no excuse.

[ex carrabba fan]

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Dude must have had some serious dirt on PSU officials to keep them quiet.

Not sure why that grad assistant went to Paterno of all people. Smh. Why would your first thought be "I gotta tell coach" after witnessing something like that?

Either things aren't adding up, things are fishy or everyone involved are just jackasses.

[SuperBowlNachos]

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I can see why the grad assistant would tell Paterno and not go to the police right away. None of us have ever been in this position and you can't know what you would do if you saw what he saw(read some of that .pdf it's worse the the ESPN article describes).