Yeah that makes more sense. Mandatory reporting applies to a certain set of professionals (teachers, docs, psychologists, etc) in most states afaik

Maybe, maybe not. We don't know the extent of what was known by him regarding the investigation. Put yourself in his shoes; his job is to coach football, not to become an investigator. I suppose JoPa has a lot of "stuff" reported to him and he has to follow protocol. I am sure a large number of reports are investigated and nothing comes of it (well, it would be a fair point given the story to say, "I wonder why").

Here, JoPa was at least aware that it was being investigated. We don't know what he knew after that.

It is indefensible.

Ahh, alright. Thank you for that. I way I read it in the articles was that any superior had the obligation to report it and since JoePa would be considered a superior to a grad assistant he would have the obligation as well. Guess he didn't lawfully have an obligation then but he still should have reported it from a moral perspective...

So, what happened to Baylor?

http://twitter.com/#!/sportsbybrooks

Read through about the past 25 tweets.

they were on probation for a while, lost scholarships, postseason ban,and one year they weren't allowed to play non conference games, conference schedule only

Some of you guys just ****ing baffle me.

He started this charity in the 70's. All of these ppl involved had to know about it at some point. People found out a guy who runs a charity based in small children rapes small children.

I don't give a **** what their legal position was. Or whether they are a coach or AD, or police, or a ****ung garbage man. They are despicable human brings for doing nothing, and in at least one case they not just did nothing they ****ung helped him.

Yeah, but I don't think that came about directly because of the murder. The murder only put a light on Baylor so the NCAA was able to discover payments in the form of tuition to players and other infractions.

did penetration occur?

He wasn't cooking the books, or cheating on his wife, or any other petty bull****. He was raping children!!!!!!!!!

yeah, i know all the details there

was just making the point that if Penn State fires everyone and hires a good coach they can easily recover from this

Well, fortunately the law is cited in the Grand Jury indictment:

(I have OCR for Acrobat, but I can't seem to copy and paste) 23 Pa.C.S. Section 6311 (Child Protective Services Law) provides that when a staff member reports abuse, the person "in charge of the school or institution has the responsibility and legal obligation to report or cause such a report to be made by telephone and in writing within 48 hours to the Department of Public Welfare .... "

JoPa would not be required to report under that statute; I am sure he was required to report to his superior under school policy.

First off, no-one so far has suggested that the AD and Schultz are not despicable for essentially covering the matter up (or that Sandusky should spend the rest of his life in prison). The consensus is also that Paterno should have done more, as well as potentially the graduate student himself.

However, there is stuff worth working through here apart from simply screaming "BURN THEM ALL" in terms of what the legal obligations were, the sequence of events, and who exactly was involved.

Oski - I've already put the above section of the report in the thread!

So JoePa isn't a criminal, just a huge scumbag

I know all you Penn State haters want to tar the entire institution with the Sandusky Brush, but it ain't going to happen: http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/ind...tml#incart_mce:

"Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno did the right thing and reported an eye-witness report of child sex abuse by Jerry Sandusky in the football locker room in 2002, according to the indictment released this morning by the state Attorney General.

A source close to the investigation tells The Patriot-News that Paterno will not be charged, and will be a prosecution witness who will testify.

Friday, Sandusky was charged with 40 counts of child sex crimes, and this morning athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz were charged with perjury and failure to report a crime.

The sources said the deputy state prosecutor handling the case said that Paterno did the right thing, and handled himself appropriately in 2002 and during the three-year investigation that ended Friday."

The Harrisburg "Patriot" has been following this story since March of this year. Paterno testified before the grand jury, and is considered to be a key prosecution witness, probably in the perjury cases of his superiors Curley and Schultz.

not really Lloyd. "burn them all" seems pretty appropriate given the circumstances. Parsing the charges, or equivocating the circumstances is pretty dumb, so why are you doing that?

In an institution full of huge scumbags it seems.

Are you serious? Football has to be the ultimate macho sport. No kid is going to want to play there for years until this fades from the public eye IMO. Any top tier talent is going to be recruited by multiple schools. I guarantee this will be brought up at every school this kid visits.

And if it's true that Paterno watched this guy bring kids to practice he needs to be fired today. The sad thing is I think people are going to pity Paterno here when the real victims are the kids.

Yeah, the part about the kid at practice is not in the Grand Jury report, nor has it been mentioned in the news articles I have read. I would like to see this "fact" verified before you guys start the witch hunt.

Also, Sandusky had emeritus status at Penn State. That means that even after retiring as a football coach (actually pushed out by Paterno) Sandusky had access to all campus buildings and the football program had no jurisdiction over him.

The football team had a rule that Sandusky could not bring children with him to football facilities. The school admits that could not be enforced given Sandusky's status within the University. (That is in the Grand Jury report) - Page 11 (or around there).

lol pretty sure your AD and vice president being charged with perjury and covering up your long time coach raping young boys on campus has appropriately covered the entire institution with tar.

How so? That is exactly what will happen in court. Also, I'm not "equivocating" anything. This is a huge sports story that may have significant consequences for a giant program, so I want to know exactly what happened rather than just rant about how morally bankrupt they all are - as that is a given.

Yeah, I see. However, you put it under a list of people "that failed to act." That is a gross mischaracterization given the fact certain people's actions are certainly bound by University policy. They did act. The people up the chain failed them.

In central Pennsylvania I would imagine they take the rape of children just as serious as anywhere else in this country.

I sincerely hope that no one in law enforcement would be worried about their own career while investigating a prominent figures involvement in sweeping this under the rug.

I think when it comes to investigating child molestation that the "living legend" status goes out the window.

If you were in Joe Pa's position would you of called the police?

Or would you have just told your boss and forgotten about it?