Penn State Child Rape Scandal

"When the word gets out, when people understand that authorities are actually doing something about this, that they may be believed, then more people come forward," Corbett said

"if you eyewitness the abuse, you have a direct obligation to go to law enforcement."


Former Penn State University football assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky has allegations made against him over an allege cover-up of incidents that occured at the university. Sandusky, a long time defensive coordinator, under head coach Joe Paterno, retired in 1999 but remained access to Penn State's athletic facilities. In 2011 a Penn State janitor names James Calhoun witnessed Sandusky  in the football showers, performing oral sex on a boy between the ages of 11 and 13. He reported the incident to the immediate supervisor, Jay Witherirte, but he passed it along to neither school nor police officials. Another witness, Mike McQueary, told Paterno that he had seen Sandusky sexually assaulting a 10-year old boy in the shower facilites. Paterno then reported the allegations to Penn State athletic director Tim Curley. In Novemeber 2011, Sandusky was arrested on 40 counts of molesting eight boys over a 15-year period. Also, Curley and Vice President Gary Schultz resigned after being charged with failing to report the incident to police and lying to a grand jury regarding what they knew about the incidents. On November 9, Pater announced he would retire at the end of the season but hours later Penn State trustees fired him and forced Spanier to resign.

I am extremely disgusted by this case and even more creeped out that Sandusky got away with so many times of molesting innocent young boys. It's crazy to think that the supervisors of Penn State football didn't doa nything to stop it. With all the complaints and reports made there should have been something done. I personally don't think that Paterno is fully at fault because he did report it. Since he didn't actually see it, taking matters into his owns hands would just make things messier. That's the problem in todays society, people step into other people's business when really the subnject of the matter has nothing to do with them. I think Paterno did what was right by reporting it and not fully intervening by personally contacting the police. Paterno should not be punished like he is because he did what was right at the time.