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tjohnsont

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Posted: Nov. 10, 2011 - 1:35 PM ET #76

Quote Originally Posted by HutchEmAll:

Joe can admit that he didn't do enough (which he did). Why can't you.

You can argue that many others were complicit in keeping this covered up....and they were. Some even more so than Joe (hence the reason for the charges for others). But that doesn't take Joe off the hook for not doing something.

Joe admitted that McQueary told him he witnessed something "sexually inappropriate and fondling" in the shower.

And all Joe did was report it and just forget about it forever....and you think that's OK? Never asked McQueary for details. In fact, I don't think he was ever involved in a discussion about what should be done after he pawned the responsibility off on the AD.

It's unforgiveable.

How do you know? I wasn't there so I won't assume.

How often do you hear of a crime and call the police and tell them you heard something?

He handed over information he heard just as if you would call the police to tell them something you witnessed or heard. From there would you call the police to follow up or would you assume that the police will take the necessary steps to do their job? Joe had a job and he did it, it's now up to his superiors to do their job. Just because his superiors higher up in the chain didn't do their jobs or maybe did there jobs doesn't mean Joe is to be blamed.

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tjohnsont

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Posted: Nov. 10, 2011 - 1:37 PM ET #77

Quote Originally Posted by HutchEmAll:

has a job to do also- he has to feed his family and do what he had to do.

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So he can't do his job or feed his family if he reports some alleged illegal activity at his school?

Are you really this dumb?

He did his job and reported it. He did his duty. What else do you expect him to do? He don't have to do anything besides what he did. Didn't you hear what the police said?

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PokeSmot13

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Posted: Nov. 10, 2011 - 1:38 PM ET #78

https://www.nesn.com/2011/11/jerry-sandusky-rumored-to-have-been-pimping-out-young-boys-to-rich-donors-says-mark-madden.html

I guess in the end the Donors/Stockholders were more important than the public. Where have I seen this before???

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joewashington

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Posted: Nov. 10, 2011 - 1:38 PM ET #79

Again......this COVER UP was not conducted soley by Paterno.....I would ask whether local law enforcement got involved after the university police were informed.....If they were not then this COVER UP goes from the athletic dept to the upper levels of univ administration......But still.....Paterno could have exposed these atrocities if he had chosen to....

Time for the FBI to get involved....until they do it's the fox guarding the hen house.....

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Ice4Blood

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Posted: Nov. 10, 2011 - 1:38 PM ET #80

Quote Originally Posted by joewashington:

Everyone is saying Paterno commited no crime.....Well folks....being complicit in a COVER-UP of sex crimes...

thanks Joe! nice to see someone around here has a brain on this subject...

and not only is it a cover-up... by definition, it is a conspiracy...

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PokeSmot13

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Posted: Nov. 10, 2011 - 1:42 PM ET #81

From NESN :

In April, Pittsburgh radio host Mark Madden wrote a story revealing Penn State for much of the cover-up of Jerry Sandusky's alleged child rape that has been exposed in the past week. While it didn't raise many eyebrows back then, six months later it looks to be incredibly accurate.

On Thursday morning, just hours after legendary head coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier were fired by the school's board of trustees, Madden was asked on The Dennis and Callahan Show what he believes the next piece of news will be.

What he said was twice as shocking as anything that's been released thus far.

"I can give you a rumor and I can give you something I think might happen," Madden told John Dennis and Gerry Callahan. "I hear there's a rumor that there will be a more shocking development from the Second Mile Foundation -- and hold on to your stomachs, boys, this is gross, I will use the only language I can -- that Jerry Sandusky and Second Mile were pimping out young boys to rich donors. That was being investigated by two prominent columnists even as I speak."

After the news spread, Madden later explained via Twitter why he went public with the rumors.

"I normally abhor giving RUMORS credence," Madden wrote. "But whole Sandusky scandal started out as a RUMOR. It gets deeper and more disgusting all the time. One of state's top columnists investigating. That adds credence. I am NOT rumor's original source. [Why does] Sandusky deserve benefit of doubt?"

Madden also spoke more definitively on Dennis and Callahan to the cover-up efforts at the school and beyond that he expects will be made public soon.

"The other thing I think that may eventually become uncovered, and I talked about this in my original article back in April, is that I think they'll find out that Jerry Sandusky was told that he had to retire in exchange for a cover-up," Madden said. "If you look at the timeline, that makes perfect sense, doesn't it?

"My opinion is when Sandusky quit, everybody knew -- not just at Penn State," Madden added. "I think it was a very poorly kept secret about college football in general, and that is why he never coached in college football again and retired at the relatively young age of 55. [That's] young for a coach, certainly."