Penn State scandal (merged)

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Vercingetorix said:
Don't forget that the janitors didn't say anything in 1998 because they were afraid of losing their jobs. Think about what that says about the culture around the PSU football program.

This is bigger than one individual decision by Paterno not to report allegations of a single awful crime.
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It is obvious that Jerry Sandusky could basically do whatever the hell he wanted.
 
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Dbake005 said:
Cover up?

So the kid's mother didn't keep pushing/going to the cops? And no other kids did?

There's just a big disconnect in those 12 years for me. Don't get it.
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The cops told her not to talk to anyone. Later the prosecutor disappeared and the body has never been found.
 
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knucklehead_vol said:
The cops told her not to talk to anyone. Later the prosecutor disappeared and the body has never been found.
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Could you imagine if the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal is found out to be connected to that? Might be the biggest scandal in the nation's history that isn't Watergate.
 
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knucklehead_vol said:
The cops told her not to talk to anyone. Later the prosecutor disappeared and the body has never been found.
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So the mother of a son who had been molested and raped by an adult just... dropped it, kept quiet? Don't see that happening. Ever.

And that is why a lot of this doesn't add up to me. 12 years of SOME people knowing SOME stuff and then all of the sudden it blows UP on a random Monday.

Lotta weird, shocking stuff. For certain.
 
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greggdoyelcbs Gregg Doyel
I see 4,000 students. And 3 cops. Gotta be more cops somewhere. But more students are coming too

Lulz Surely they knew something like this would happen and would have been prepared.
 
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milohimself said:
He is, but JoePa meant more to Penn State than Bear did to Bama. Bear might have been the greatest coach in major college football history, but Alabama was already neck and neck with Notre Dame as the biggest deal in college football for forty years prior to his arrival. Aside from a short period about 100 years ago, Penn St football was nothing before JoePa took the reins, and he built that program, brick by brick.

I think it would be accurately described as such: Bear Bryant will likely forever be the biggest name ever in the history of college football's greatest program. JoePa is Penn State.
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Unless you were alive and in the south during Bryant's reign, I don't think you can appreciate what those people thought about that coach. I don't disagree with you at all that Paterno has been more important for Penn State, but what the PSU community thinks about Paterno is a lot more reasonable than what the Bammers thought (and still think) about Bryant. They love Joe Paterno. The Bammers took their obsession for the Bear to a whole different level of idolatry.
 
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Dbake005 said:
So the mother of a son who had been molested and raped by an adult just... dropped it, kept quiet? Don't see that happening. Ever.

And that is why a lot of this doesn't add up to me. 12 years of SOME people knowing SOME stuff and then all of the sudden it blows UP on a random Monday.

Lotta weird, shocking stuff. For certain.
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You are talking about a HOF caliber DC that was revered at Penn State as a great person of the community. Maybe she thought there would be no chance of anything happening. Wouldn't be the first time.
 
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zjcvols said:
You are talking about a HOF caliber DC that was revered at Penn State as a great person of the community. Maybe she thought there would be no chance of anything happening. Wouldn't be the first time.
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I seriously doubt that's the case.
 
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GBO18 said:
greggdoyelcbs Gregg Doyel
I see 4,000 students. And 3 cops. Gotta be more cops somewhere. But more students are coming too

Lulz Surely they knew something like this would happen and would have been prepared.
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Actually, I don't think they did. They figured "Okay, this is bad, but hey, he enabled a child molestor. People will understand." Obviously, college kids aren't reasonable.
 
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Dbake005 said:
So the mother of a son who had been molested and raped by an adult just... dropped it, kept quiet? Don't see that happening. Ever.

And that is why a lot of this doesn't add up to me. 12 years of SOME people knowing SOME stuff and then all of the sudden it blows UP on a random Monday.

Lotta weird, shocking stuff. For certain.
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She was told to keep quiet, then the DA, who later disappeared, said there was not enough evidence. None of the victims knew about each other. And people did know stuff, they just kept their ****ing mouths shut.
 
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