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| Joe Paterno to be fired by Penn State | |
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| Deleted User | Nov 9 2011, 08:08 PM Post #21 |
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You are 110% correct. This is despicable and unconscionable that anyone would not immediately report this to police |
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| Pat | Nov 10 2011, 12:14 AM Post #22 |
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Here in Washington they follow the same protocol as Colorado. It sounds like the nation's education community believe they are better at investigating crime than the police. It matter not, the voice of the people such as Joe and myself won the day and Paterno is out. He now admits he should have done more. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2016721255_apfbcpennstateabuse.html STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State football coach Joe Paterno will retire at the end of the season, his long and illustrious career brought down because he failed to do all he could about an allegation of child sex abuse against a former assistant. "This is a tragedy," Paterno said. "It is one of the great sorrows of my life. With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more." Paterno has been besieged by criticism since former defensive coordinator and one-time heir apparent Jerry Sandusky was charged over the weekend with molesting eight young boys between 1994 and 2009. Athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz have been charged with failing to notify authorities after an eyewitness reported a 2002 assault. |
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| Thumper | Nov 10 2011, 12:20 AM Post #23 |
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My monies on Nebraska this weekend. |
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| campingken | Nov 10 2011, 02:51 AM Post #24 |
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Wow I had no idea that so many states take such a mild posture on educators reporting suspected child abuse. California may be on the "left coast" and filled with fruits and nuts but there Old Joe would be on his way to jail. In Ca. a teacher is required by statute to personally report any reasonable suspicion of child abuse directly to either CPS or the police. School policy may require that he or she also tell his supervisor but this alone would not meet the legal requirement. CPS is also mandated to pass the information they receive to law enforcement. Someone telling you that a 50+ year is in the shower with a 10 year boy who is not his son rises to the "reasonable" level. Add in anal intercourse and well you be the judge. |
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| colo_crawdad | Nov 10 2011, 03:20 AM Post #25 |
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Why do you say that? In no case except allegations of a teacher asbusing a child does the School District to any investigation. Then the investigation is concurrent with the poliice investigation.
Yes he is/was disappointed in the chain of administrative command, something drummed into him for years and years in the athletic culture of authoritarianism. |
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| Pat | Nov 10 2011, 03:50 AM Post #26 |
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At Penn State Colo, it could be argued that Joe Paterno had more power than either the Ad or school president. When you use the term authoritarian, you descried Joe. He is Penn State. and I stand by my earlier statement. It sounds like the school systems believe they can do a better job of investigating child abuse than the police. Why would you need a middle man to report abuse to the police? This Penn State case should be proof enough that schools can't be trusted to do what is right. It's not up to you or me or a school administrator or counselor to determine if enough evidence is available to turn over ot a prosecutor. That's what we pay trained cops for. |
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| Deleted User | Nov 10 2011, 04:33 AM Post #27 |
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Anyone who believes he did the right thing by only reporting it to school authorities need their moral compass checked. If it happened in front of me I would have reported it to the police as soon as the coroner got there |
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| tomdrobin | Nov 10 2011, 06:51 AM Post #28 |
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Incidents like this make you wonder how pervasive stuff like this was years ago, when it was something no one talked about. |
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| Jim Miller | Nov 10 2011, 07:34 AM Post #29 |
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Pat, you disappoint me. You go on and on about something you know nothing about. Were you thrown out of Penn State or something? |
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| Deleted User | Nov 10 2011, 09:04 AM Post #30 |
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But you do that daily Jim with your endless cut and paste propaganda articles and photoshopped pictures............. You post what you are fed............whether it be bs about Obama taxing xmas tree sellers to the ows protesters defecating on a flag |
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