OrpheusMoon
11-08-2011, 08:12 PM
School administration had moral obligation to do more about Jerry Sandusky
It was not a priest with a boy in the dark rooms of a church this time, it was the church of football at Penn State University, and a coach who once coached there for the great Joe Paterno alleged to be the sexual predator.
Now all of them at Penn State touched by this hideous story — touched by it the way this former coach, Jerry Sandusky, is alleged to have touched young boys in his care — try to protect themselves, when clearly not enough was ever done to protect these boys.
If these charges against Sandusky are true, then shame on all those who were told about Sandusky at Penn State and expected somebody else to do something about him.
If the government can make its case against Sandusky — once Paterno’s top football sergeant, and so a priest of football at Penn State — then nobody involved should survive this, starting with a coach who came out of Brooklyn Prep nearly 70 years ago to make his name one of the most famous and respected in the history of his sport.
Of course Paterno,
now 84, will get a chance to tell his side. For now he only speaks through a statement issued by his son. But if Joe Paterno was another one at Penn State who didn’t go right at Sandusky and right to the cops when informed of what an eyewitness saw Sandusky doing with a boy in a football shower room, then Paterno should step down and so should the president of the university, whether they are facing charges or not.
They are no better than high clerics who did not do enough, or nothing at all, when informed of priests in the church forcing themselves on young boys.
We keep hearing that everybody at Penn State followed the letter of the law when a graduate assistant named Mike McQueary, now on Paterno’s staff, went to Paterno in 2002 and said he saw Sandusky with a 10-year-old boy in the shower room.
But what about the spirit of the law?
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/joe-paterno-penn-state-football-coach-center-unholy-mess-article-1.974071#ixzz1dB6BQ2Gi
Opinions--anyone?
It was not a priest with a boy in the dark rooms of a church this time, it was the church of football at Penn State University, and a coach who once coached there for the great Joe Paterno alleged to be the sexual predator.
Now all of them at Penn State touched by this hideous story — touched by it the way this former coach, Jerry Sandusky, is alleged to have touched young boys in his care — try to protect themselves, when clearly not enough was ever done to protect these boys.
If these charges against Sandusky are true, then shame on all those who were told about Sandusky at Penn State and expected somebody else to do something about him.
If the government can make its case against Sandusky — once Paterno’s top football sergeant, and so a priest of football at Penn State — then nobody involved should survive this, starting with a coach who came out of Brooklyn Prep nearly 70 years ago to make his name one of the most famous and respected in the history of his sport.
Of course Paterno,
now 84, will get a chance to tell his side. For now he only speaks through a statement issued by his son. But if Joe Paterno was another one at Penn State who didn’t go right at Sandusky and right to the cops when informed of what an eyewitness saw Sandusky doing with a boy in a football shower room, then Paterno should step down and so should the president of the university, whether they are facing charges or not.
They are no better than high clerics who did not do enough, or nothing at all, when informed of priests in the church forcing themselves on young boys.
We keep hearing that everybody at Penn State followed the letter of the law when a graduate assistant named Mike McQueary, now on Paterno’s staff, went to Paterno in 2002 and said he saw Sandusky with a 10-year-old boy in the shower room.
But what about the spirit of the law?
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/joe-paterno-penn-state-football-coach-center-unholy-mess-article-1.974071#ixzz1dB6BQ2Gi
Opinions--anyone?