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Originally Posted by kane
he could have gone to the police himself or at the very least he could have fired Sandusky, but he did nothing.
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at the time of this event Sandusky was no longer a coach, at one time he was supposed to be Paterno's successor as head coach, Paterno told him it wasn't going to happen and Sandusky took some nice retirement package. As an ex-faculty member he had a lot of perks, and continued to have full access to all the athletic facilities so was around there a lot still, but not working for Paterno.
the only thing Paterno can be blamed for is not following up and not sure that's fair - you'd expect that the President of a major university and the Athletic Director to whom he reported what he knew would do the right thing. what people and the media are trying to pin on Paterno is why this didn't play on his mind, you hear that a 57 year old man is playing around naked with a boy in the shower and you report it to your superiors but you don't ever ask yourself at any point later 'gee, i wonder what happened, did they report it to the police, is Sandusky going to be arrested? i need to find out just in case my bosses are going to sweep this under the carpet'.
if you read the Grand Jury report, Sandusky had been investigated more than once about his inappropriate behaviour with other young boys by the cops and nothing was done even though there was lots of evidence of what he was up to - including a phone recording of a very creepy phone conversation with the mother of a boy he had put the moves on in a shower where a guilt ridden, or maybe fake guilt ridden Sandusky, tell the mother 'I should be dead'.