This is my last post on the subject as it no longer serves any purpose other than me railing against the illogical need for immediate resolution by the masses.
When Joe is referring to his superiors, included in that meeting was the man in charge of the police force, who is now under indictment for perjury and will likely also be indicted for failing to act.
Joe's problem comes much later when nothing happens to Sandusky. Absent other facts, IMO it was unfair to treat the man in the manner they did, because he his the face of the university.
I'm ready for some football.
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IMO, some of you are stuck deep within the weeds and are missing the big picture here. Based on the outcome of GJ testimony, JP was not indicted for any prosecutable wrongs. Now that's not to say that things could change as more evidence comes out, nor is JP out of the woods as far as the myriad of civil suits that will inevitably come out of all this.
Now let's step a little further from the weeds and consider that maybe JP should have been indicted but due to his beloved status, the GJ simply cast a blind eye to his culpability. I've heard some say that according to PA law, every party was responsible to report what they saw or learned about this sort of crime. I don't know if that was the case back then. But even if it was the case and the GJ dropped the ball, this is not IMO JP's most significant transgression in all this.
Taking yet another step back from the woods, regardless of the law, his lack of making sure
someone reported the incident to the police should be considered a major lapse in judgement. But even that is not the big issue at hand.
IMO JP's greatest transgression is that he, along with others, allowed and even worse enabled this monster to continue to be around young boys while knowing he brazenly sexually assaulted one in their own facility. I just can't get my mind around what in the fricken world were they thinking to keep Sandusky around and even help him grow his pool of possible victims.
Someone posted that there's some report that others might e involved with Sandusky in some sort of distribution channel of these children to other child molesters. I would not be shocked at all if that turns out to be the case considering how long he was at it and how long he was allowed to stick around and use university facilities even though he was no longer on the staff.
---- I'm going off topic a bit here, but what do you think about the following? ----
Maybe I'm a bit paranoid, but
if I was a college president, AD or any type of high level administrator of a large organization that has any type of charitable work with children, I'd immediately conduct a cursory investigation to find out if there are any, what I would call, hanger-on-ers who are deeply involved with these sorts of charitable programs. What I mean by
hanger-on-ers are those who are involved with these types of programs that seem to be sticking around a long time that are either not employed by that organization or entrenched at a level one would think they should have advanced beyond a long time ago. If you find out they have some that fit that category, then it might be worth doing a little digging to see if something ugly turns up. Now this might seem like a witch hunt and could turn out to be such if it's conducted the wrong way, but when it comes to children being at risk, I'm all for being proactive and catching these bastards. It's probably not all that hard to do. If you find out you have someone or more than one that fits that description, you investigate if they have a pattern of doing a lot of one-on-one type of activities out of the site of others, particularly with those who are also involved with that program. I think one-on-one mentoring is a very powerful and effective method to develop young people, but it can be easily conducted in public places where there are others around. Look for those who take just one boy or girl on trips. See if there are some who often selectively give gifts to certain boys or girls. That seems to be a common practice for child predictors that should be easy to spot, though for some reason many simply ignore. If there seems to be some pattern where there is a pattern of some participants in the program dropping out abruptly who were all involved with the same person, that should throw up some red flags. I just think that those who are around these types of predators simply are blind to the obvious signs because they simply can't believe that this seemly nice person could ever do such a thing. FWIW, doesn't it seem that most of the ones who were at it for a while before getting caught aren't the creepy ones, but instead are the ones that seemed not only normal but real nice people?
This sort of things seems to happen way too often and maybe I'm naive, but I don't think it would be all that hard or costly to implement some investigative measures for organizations that work with children, especially at risk ones who tend to be the biggest targets for this sort of crime. It might even be a good idea that the government, implement some sort people auditing practices in place. Yeah, I know this could blow up into a cost cow when it comes to government mandates. It might be hard to coordinate this type of role and effort, but I wonder if there are enough people even volunteers who would be willing to get trained on how to conduct these types of covert investigations and if they find out there's something worth looking more deeply into, an organization could then turn to some government or private organization that has trained professionals to take it to the next level. Just have this type of practice might scare off some of these predators, though my wild imagination tells me that some of these predators could work in concert with each other where some of the investigators could be fellow predators. I wouldn't put it past people. In fact, I wouldn't be shocked if something like this surfaces in the Penn State situation in the form of coverups and enabling. There was a doctor at a hospital in CT that had been at this sort of thing for years before he was discovered. And I'm sure there are many cases that don't hit the news, plus those who are at it and are not being caught as we speak.
