Why joe paterno is innocent

The Paterno report had a predetermined conclusion. It is as believable as a Tobacco Institute report on the dangers of smoking. Joe Paterno is innocent! I am against sexual abuse, especially when it comes to children. I pray for those raped by Jerry Sandusky. It's gonna have to be somebody from the other side of the ball.

I'm sorry, Jerry. It's not enough to keep points off the board anymore. I know this is gonna seem unfair to you. But I have to look in the mirror and know I've done the right thing for this whole football program.

February Athletic director Tim Curley tells Paterno that officials intend to report child-abuse allegations against Sandusky to the state Department of Welfare. After their conversation, the plan is abandoned. The implication is that Paterno discouraged the university from acting against Sandusky. But what if it means he had the opposite reaction? Turn the perverted bastard in! I can't believe the lies he got away with.

I'll be the first to testify against this animal. This will destroy the football program, and it will destroy the university, and by God, we deserve it, letting an abomination like this happen, on our watch.

I'll tear the stadium apart with my own two hands! Yes, OK, yes, absolutely, Joe. We'll report everything. You're right. We'll email in a report tomorrow, first thing, how about? Is that how you do stuff like that, these days?

Don't worry, we'll handle it. Email on him. I really oughta learn how to use this stuff. Summer Sandusky brings one of his victims to Penn State preseason football practice. It's obvious Paterno knew that his then defensive coordinator and heir was apparently being investigated for molesting a small boy. Now, Paterno may very well have in his heart believed there was a thorough investigation and Sandusky was cleared.

Charges were never filed after all. Same goes for Spanier, Schultz and Curley. Nothing wrong here. But the fact they all knew there were allegations in should've set off 10 fire houses worth of alarms when McQueary came to them three years later and reported witnessing Sandusky raping a child. Instead of being alarmed they kept calm, they thought things over and after Curley and Paterno met, they decided to protect the Penn State football program, the University's fund raising abilities and the legacy of Beloved Ol' Joe Pa—instead of stopping a child raping monster.

Curley and Schultz are up on charges and will most likely be going to jail and they deserve to be. Graham Spanier should be up on perjury and obstruction charges as well and had he lived, based on the evidence acquired by the Freeh group, Joe Paterno should be charged with perjury and obstruction of justice and he too should go to jail.

To paraphrase Buzz Bissinger, dying was probably the best thing that could've happened to Joe Paterno in Let's just lay this out there. Let's pull no more punches.

Joe Paterno was not a great man. A great man does not put his legacy, his football program or even a university above the welfare of children. Spanier, Schultz and Curly are not great men either but they don't have bronzed statues of themselves on campus. Great men are not responsible for allowing a child raper to continue his child raping for 13 years after his heinous child raping actions are brought to light.

Paterno did nothing to stop Sandusky for 13 years. In fact, had victim number one and his mother not stood up and spoke up, Sandusky very well could be continuing his atrocities right now. No one from Penn State ever did anything to stop him at all. In fact, as the Freeh report shows, they all conspired to do the exact opposite. You'll still get the arguments though from the "the sky is blue and white because God is a Penn State fan" sect:.

But Joe was such a great guy, he put grades and graduation rates above winning. A dubious claim, I don't recall any of his losing seasons being attributed to him cutting dumber players who were flunking out. Regardless, he apparently only cared about the welfare of children who went to Penn State and not the poor vulnerable ones from broken homes who merely visited his campus.

But Paterno was a regular guy, down to earth, he lived in a ranch house just off campus. But as of now, we are dealing with speculation and wild suppositions. That number is meaningless if there is any evidence that JoePA knew about it. He said in an interview that he knew about the abuse in He died a decade later. How is that not a cover up? I do not believe Joe Paterno covered up for Jerry Sandusky; however, I do believe the Second Mile, who was run by Republicans, covered up the sex abuse scandal.

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