[Husker] In defense of JoePa

[RJ Wessel]

Sorry, I have to disagree here.

Someone, anyone comes to me and says that they saw something inappropriate between and adult and a minor. I would feel obligated to ask at least what you saw.  JoePa is making it sound like he did not ask a darn thing about what was saw. was it sex, drinking what was it. Come On Man.

For some reason this crime seems to be reported to superiors first and not to the police?  if you saw a person getting robbed or assualted or rape - would you call your dad? no you call the police. 

Yet in child sexual assault cases it seems the police are the last to be called by any institute. 


---- Tommy Thompson <huskertt at charter.net> wrote: 
> I don't have all of the facts on the Sandusky scandal, but I wonder if Joe Paterno isn't getting wrongly vilified.  From what I have read, the grad student informed JoePa of what he had seen, and JoePa reported it to his superiors.  After his superiors "investigated" the incident, including speaking with the grad student, they cleared Sandusky of any wrong doing.  Following that trail of logic, JoePa would have assumed it was a false allegation and would have (rightly) done nothing further.
> 
> Again, I don't know all of the facts, so JoePa may have known: 1) that the allegations were not really investigated; 2) that the university was covering it up; and/or 3) that the grad student have given him specific information that should have led him to contact the police (or at least instructed the grad student to do that)
> 
> Bottom line is that I'm not going to judge anyone in this until all of the facts come out.  It's very possible that JoePa did due diligence, which is why he is not under investigation.
> 
> Tommy Thompson (Pa)
> "GO BIG RED"
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