<p>the more I reflect on how McQueary handled witnessing a rape, a rape where a ten year old child and the rapist turned and saw him, I am disgusted. I get that he was shocked, I get that he was scared, but frankly imho his action, his choice, to go tell his father and discuss it, seems to demonstrate he was weighing what to do, considering the fallout. As many posters have already said, how this strong 28 yr old man did not intervene to help is sickening. </p>
<p>Honestly, if you think about it I don’t think he would have had to even physically do anything. It is very likely that if he raised his voice and shouted “let that child go, leave that boy alone!”, Sandusky likely would have and pretended he was just washing the boys hair after all and walk away. McQueary had other choices than physically assaulting Sandusky. He absolutely could have saved that child. His walking away told that 10 yr old child that what was going on was perfectly okay, in fact I’ll leave to give you all your privacy. outrageous. He needs to go too.</p>
<p>Additionally, McQueary’s walking out of the locker room reinforced Sandusky’s arrogance and sense of immunity.</p>
JHS It is my understanding that Curley and Schultz are being prosecuted for lying to the grand jury not for failing to notify the authorities. According to both McQuerys and Paternos testimonies - Curley definitively lied. And as you posted (#397) Curleys actions post his meeting w/ McQuery confirms he knew the extent and seriousness of Sanduskys acts, but he tells the grand jury it was just “horseplay.”
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<p>I do think both Curley and Schultz probably consulted with PSUs legal department and their actions (or lack of action) was based on the legal advice they received. JMO</p>
<p>I agree with you statement. A 28 year old does know what is wrong and right. He should have gone to the police himself. I don’t understand when something this criminal is not report to the authorities. Sure notify the higher ups at the organization but you need to report it to the police. Sandusky was not even an employee so why was the college protecting him. Does anyone wonder why these men protected this animal? Did they profit from it some way? They all need to go. They all need to be in the hall of shame.</p>
<p>I also heard that as late as last week, Sandusky was seen walking around campus. After all the grand jury stuff that was going on for the last few years, it is unbelievable that the school seemingly still let him come and go on campus as nothing has happened.</p>
<p>Well i for one feel so bad for the adult men who coddled a pedophile and the idea they were humiliated. gosh, humiliation for lying to a court, covering up at minimum a rape gee lets just cheer them on for having a good football team</p>
<p>Lets not concern ourselves with the humilation and torment and life long issuesnthe child victims have to deal with.</p>
<p>Yup these good ole boys should be lauded for protecting and providing shelter and a safe haven for a child molester.</p>
<p>@ttpparent : it’s kinda impossible to physically bar him from a campus that constitutes several hundred acres over several dozen square miles…but I hear you, it makes your skin crawl. He does have an injunction against him keeping him from buildings, but again, in practice that may be hard to enforce if he’s so unrepentant as to dare to walk around. Also, we have seen him (with his WIFE!omg, does she need a wakeup call or WHAT?) at a local gym, and just yesterday he was spotted at a sporting goods store, wearing PSU sweats. You coulda heard a pin drop as he came in. Clearly this is an extremely disturbed person. I mean, there aren’t words… What is wrong with the law that he is walking around?</p>
<p>Hearing that Sandusky was out and about town convinces me even more that all of the players are living in an alternate universe of their own making.</p>
Has he been arrested yet? If so, perhaps he’s out on bail. In America, we typically don’t imprison people until they’ve been convicted of a crime, unless they’re a flight risk.</p>
<p>I cannot fully describe or defend what happened in the streets of State College last night, but I will, at least try, to explain the reasoning behind them. </p>
<p>What brought us together was a deep and profound sense of outrage. A sense that led 40 people, after seeing the firing, to silently look at each other, nod, quietly ask “outside?”, and leave together into the cold. For a week we’ve been forced to watch 24/7 media coverage that told us, in order of culpability, it ranked; 1. Joseph Paterno 2. Graham Spanier and 3. Jerry Sandusky- that alone should speak for itself. Then, we had to emotionally watch as our icon stated an intent to resign at the end of the season. 46 years, no NOT ONLY AS A FOOTBALL COACH, but as the greatest thing that has ever happened to the university. He took a small agricultural school and built it into a national brand- when we study, we go to the PATERNO library, the premier liberal arts program is the PATERNO fellowship. More than any other, Joseph Paterno built this school and its Success with Honor brand and now his time was quickly ending.</p>
<p>But then, it happened. The Board of Trustees decided it could not afford JoePa even that courtesy to leave, tainted, but under his own terms. Rather they saw it fit to remove him despite the fact he followed proper protocols, was not indicted by extensive grand jury investigation, and reported the situation to the man with oversight for the university police (Schultz). They saw it fit to retain McQueary, the man who had direct, even physical, control over what happened. They saw it fit to keep an indicted Curley on the payroll. But they didn’t see it fit to allow someone who deserved it most, who is the most responsible for where the university is at now, the dignity to leave of his own accord. In one of their own quotes, "We don’t know all the facts yet."Our Board of Trustees succumbed to the trial of public opinion rather than the court of law or reason and here they failed. They failed to uphold any sense of honor and dignity that the university, that Joseph Paterno had built through our history.</p>
<p>That is what brought us together. That common, united sense of outrage. That hurt and developed anger as a result of an intense injustice. That is why We, still, are Penn State.</p>
<p>sorry, didn’t use the rhetorical question font yes, he is out on bail, and clearly immensely disturbed (well d’uh) And those of you so quick to judge “all of the players” clearly are misinformed. These 18-20 yr old players are going to class and struggling more than you can imagine. I don’t understand why you are so mean to them --what have they done so wrong? Trusted their leaders? Believed in something that was so much less than advertised? (And before somebody says it, YES we KNOW the real victims are the victims. Can we just perhaps assume we all agree on that?)</p>
<p>I think when some of us use the term “players,” we may be referring not to the football team, but to the characters in the sordid drama playing out before us.</p>
<p>@kelly2112 Okay, these are rumors, UNLIKE what is contained in the Grand Jury report. But, if there is truth to those rumors - horrific beyond imagination.</p>
yes, he is out on bail, and clearly immensely disturbed (well d’uh) And those of you so quick to judge “all of the players” clearly are misinformed. These 18-20 yr old players are going to class and struggling more than you can imagine. I don’t understand why you are so mean to them --what have they done so wrong? Trusted their leaders? Believed in something that was so much less than advertised? (And before somebody says it, YES we KNOW the real victims are the victims. Can we just perhaps assume we all agree on that?)</p>![http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Gerald_Sandusky_Sexual_Abuse_Findings_of_Grand_Jury.png[/url]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Gerald_Sandusky_Sexual_Abuse_Findings_of_Grand_Jury.png%5B/url%5D){kind=link}
