Paterno why now

These are vulnerable children who's lives we're rolling the dice with for God's sake. Spanier testified to the Grand Jury that he was unaware of an investigation into alleged child abuse by Sandusky in E-mails uncovered by the Freeh group show that Spanier was very much aware of this investigation. That's perjury. There was another person who swore to the Grand Jury he knew nothing of the incident involving Sandusky inappropriately showering and touching a boy: Joe Paterno.

E-mails from show that Paterno was very much aware of the investigation and was following it closely. That's also perjury which, in this country, is a crime. He resumes his schedule promptly once the investigation into Sandusky is dropped. It's obvious Paterno knew that his then defensive coordinator and heir was apparently being investigated for molesting a small boy. Now, Paterno may very well have in his heart believed there was a thorough investigation and Sandusky was cleared.

Charges were never filed after all. Same goes for Spanier, Schultz and Curley. Nothing wrong here. But the fact they all knew there were allegations in should've set off 10 fire houses worth of alarms when McQueary came to them three years later and reported witnessing Sandusky raping a child.

Instead of being alarmed they kept calm, they thought things over and after Curley and Paterno met, they decided to protect the Penn State football program, the University's fund raising abilities and the legacy of Beloved Ol' Joe Pa—instead of stopping a child raping monster.

Curley and Schultz are up on charges and will most likely be going to jail and they deserve to be. Graham Spanier should be up on perjury and obstruction charges as well and had he lived, based on the evidence acquired by the Freeh group, Joe Paterno should be charged with perjury and obstruction of justice and he too should go to jail.

To paraphrase Buzz Bissinger, dying was probably the best thing that could've happened to Joe Paterno in Let's just lay this out there. Let's pull no more punches. Joe Paterno was not a great man. A great man does not put his legacy, his football program or even a university above the welfare of children. Spanier, Schultz and Curly are not great men either but they don't have bronzed statues of themselves on campus.

Great men are not responsible for allowing a child raper to continue his child raping for 13 years after his heinous child raping actions are brought to light. Paterno did nothing to stop Sandusky for 13 years. In fact, had victim number one and his mother not stood up and spoke up, Sandusky very well could be continuing his atrocities right now. No one from Penn State ever did anything to stop him at all. In fact, as the Freeh report shows, they all conspired to do the exact opposite.

You'll still get the arguments though from the "the sky is blue and white because God is a Penn State fan" sect:. But Joe was such a great guy, he put grades and graduation rates above winning. A dubious claim, I don't recall any of his losing seasons being attributed to him cutting dumber players who were flunking out. Regardless, he apparently only cared about the welfare of children who went to Penn State and not the poor vulnerable ones from broken homes who merely visited his campus.

But Paterno was a regular guy, down to earth, he lived in a ranch house just off campus. Although prosecutors made clear that Paterno would not face charges, critics said he should have done more to stop Sandusky, particularly after being alerted to a assault at the football building.

The coach had announced earlier that day he would retire at the end of the season, but the trustees said they had to act immediately. Reporters were hit with tear gas, lamp posts were ripped down and a news van was flipped over, Belculfine said.

Two days later, the family learned Paterno had lung cancer, despite having never smoked and receiving a clean bill of health only four months earlier. My dad was not a person who harbored anger; it was more hurt, first, at what had happened to the young people. His father reported it to top administrators at Penn State, and according to university policy was not authorized to do more. Paterno rejects allegations that his father had heard whispers that Sandusky was molesting boys and ignored them to protect the high-profile football program.

I was around him all the time when I was a kid. Do you honestly think we would have allowed that to happen if we had any idea of what kind of person he really was? On Jan. Joe Paterno dies at 85; transformed Penn State into football power. In June , a jury found Sandusky guilty of 45 counts of child sexual abuse.

Still proclaiming his innocence, the year-old former coach was sentenced that October to 30 to 60 years in state prison. It concluded that Paterno, fired university President Graham Spanier and two other high-ranking administrators had actively concealed the allegations against Sandusky to protect the football program.

Spanier and the other administrators — former athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz — served time in jail. When they were sentenced in , judge John Boccabella castigated them for not reporting Sandusky to the police. He did not spare Paterno. However, the NCAA retreated from the sanctions in after a judge questioned whether it had the authority to impose them.

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