[NCAA Football] Report: Penn St. Disregarded Child Welfare

[JetWing34]

The late Nebulous Paterno, former head coach of Penn State football team and other top Penn State officials hushed up child sex abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky more than a decade ago for fear of bad publicity, allowing Sandusky to prey on other youngsters, according to a scathing internal report issued Thursday on the scandal.



http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8159195/report-says-penn-state-nittany-lions-senior-officials-disregarded-children-welfare

 

[DrLeftover]

Penn State spent $6.5 million dollars and came to the conclusion that their best possible course of action was to put most of the blame on the dead guy.



How predictable was that?

 

[Fatal Dawn]

As much as I am a NebulousPa fan, I was disappointed with how he handled it. Paterno could have (and should have) done more. Forget about Spanier for a moment, Paterno is the figure head of Penn State. Paterno understood the situation (especially since McQueary witnessed it). But - for some reason - chose not to get the police involved or at least follow the situation with management more closely. Sandusky was a predator, and his trail of victims could have been stopped earlier if the Penn State officials had done something to directly address the situation.

 

[DrLeftover]

Paterno was from the generation that DIDN'T talk about it.



Hard to overcome that tendency no matter what. He did report it up the chain of command, where it was ignored by a much younger group of bureaucrats.

 

[Fatal Dawn]

Paterno himself acknowledged that he should have done a lot more. I would agree with the Freeh report, in that avoiding negative publicity was priority for Paterno and the other Penn State officials.