<p>Kayf, it’s not that someone is your superior, when you report something. You report it to the party who is supposed to be taking care of that sort of situation. What I thought happened was the Paterno turned it over to Schultz and Curley and then just went along his way in his job turning a blind eye to the investigation. What was shocking was that he did NOT do that, but instead remained involved with his whole interest being protecting the man, when it was clear he already knew that something was terribly wrong with Sandusky and his interest in young men. He knew about the earlier incident. He knew that there were other showers in the athletic facilities. </p>
<p>I did not think it was surprising that he did not take any further action with McQ’s report, because I know a lot of “Paternos” in that they are people who have very narrow focus on what they feel their job is and do it very well in that narrow corridor, leaving everything else in life up to other. A number of “greats” in a number of disciplines are that way. </p>
<p>Also, do put yourself in a situation where you get a report that someone is doing something untoward with a kid in your facility, someone who is heavily involved in children’s welfare foundations, has adopted a lot of children and who has won a number of awards for good works in that field. If the report were truly direct–he was raping, assaulting a child, a person, it would be one thing. McQ’s testimony to the Grand Jury made them think (and McQ has given different versions on what he said,and wavered in how specific he was to Paterno) that he was vague in what he saw as he reported it to to Paterno. Not so to the other two men. He straight out told them, he said. </p>
<p>I mean what is a police officer in terms of hierarchy? When he is questioning you, he is top dog. You cannot be on top of everything, so that he turned it over to those who are supposed to deal with this was not surprising to me.</p>
<p>What’s scary is that no one, no one, no one was a bit interested in the child, the other children. I absolutely would have wanted some investigation of as many children as possible and how a person is operating around children when a flag of this sort is raised, even if I believe that I know the person, and truly cannot believe the person is a molester. </p>
<p>The other thing is that people were not doing their jobs. They did not bother to read any of the laws regarding these sort of things like the Clery Act, much less have the procedures in the act in place. No one seemed to even know what it was, or have read it. They did not care. They did not seem to even know of its existance as they did not go to it when they clearly had a case that fell under it. I know that organizations often do not pay due dligence to many of the federal ,state and even university regulation that are many pages and a pain to read, but someone, a number of people are required to know that info and at least know when a case falls under those rules. These jerks did not and it was an important part of their jobs. I hope the Act and other regs pertaining these regs are scrutinzed at schools and other places that are subject to them. And even if you are not technically required to go by them, if you are in human resources, you should read and be aware of the provisions.</p>