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Originally Posted by Aytumious
Call the police and have them to talk to the witness?
He reported it to his immediate supervisor and within a week the witnesses that reported what they saw to JoPa were interviewed in person by the A.D.
Again, what should JoPa do?
I am sure a lot of stuff comes to JoPa's attention and I am sure he just reports it to his superior as he is required to do. JoPa is the not the judge and jury; he is not privy to what happened once he reported it up the chain other than the person he reported it to (and to whom he was required to do so) investigated the matter.
The AD screwed up here as he tried to pawn it off to the charity by reporting it to them. That was a terrible decision and guess what? The AD is going to lose his job and he has been indicted for perjury.
As far as JoPa goes, he did know that Sandusky was barred from the locker room thus there was immediate discipline; he knew his superior investigated the matter; and he knew his superior reported it to the charity.
I will agree that without knowing more, JoPa should have followed up and assuming the AD tells him what was going on, JoPa should have tried to convince him to report it to the police directly rather than relying on the charity.
We went into this whole type of discussion with the Coach Kelly at ND thing. People who hate ND are going to insist the coach is a total POS regardless of the facts. People who hate Penn State will hate on JoPa regardless of the facts. In both cases, perhaps sticking to protocol is a cop out, but at this point, we really don't know. We do know that Penn State people have been arrested for perjury; we do know that JoPa is not one of them.