reclegend22;969074 wrote:I did read the whole report, and it doesn't answer some very important questions. The most important being, what was Paterno told by Penn State administration -- the athletic director and university president -- about the internal investigation that Paterno most certainly thought had been conducted after he had alerted those proper administrative authorities of McQUeary's accusations. What I believe we will hear from Joe Paterno eventually, is that he was told the situation had been resolved and he was then given the all-is-clear. Remember, Paterno only was aware that what McQueary saw was perhaps sexual in nature, which could have just been a touch or weird angle that was deemed inappropriate by McQueary from his point-of-view and surprise of seeing Sandusky in the shower with a kid. Paterno was NEVER told that intercourse was actually happening.
Again, think about it, Paterno was probably in such shock that any allegation of this type could be brought upon his long-time friend and fellow coach that he probably had a hard time believing it initially as it was. After he had performed his moral and legal obligations of alerting the proper authorities for a situation that he only had word-of-mouth evidence of, Paterno probably asked Sandusky himself the next time he saw him exactly what was going on. What do you think Sandusky told him? Well, Joe, I've been in your shower raping a lot of kids from the foundation. Please. To think that's how that conversation, if it happened, would have gone down is absolutely stupid.
Paterno believed that a situation of this magnitude had been taken care of, and had no reason to believe that elite PSU administration would ensue in a cover-up of this scale behind his back.
If a grown man is taking shower with a 10 year old. That in itself should have led to PSU barring him access to the facilities. Paterno certainly had the power to bar him from any football facilities. Instead he allowed him to keep an office and use the facilities. What possible reason would a grown many have for taking a shower with a 10 year old?
