The Penn State Child Sexual Abuse Cover-up: A Timeline

[ccfinlay]

Appropriate outrage over the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal and the response of Penn State University has been expressed much more eloquently by Scalzi and othersDespite this outrage, I still hear people standing up for Joe Paterno or defending the actions/inactions of the university. Because I like you -- no seriously, I like you a lot

Comments

[frigg]

I am not familiar with the case, most likely partly because of my location and partly because I haven't been following the news much lately, but...I am speechless.

[frigg]

You should read the grand jury report yourself. While it will probably be the ugliest thing you EVER read you will see that this author has taken some libertys when stating who told who WHAT. Also NPR has a timeline that states the FACTS not opinions

[ccfinlay]

Hi, anonymous.

Here is the timeline from NPR: http://www.npr.org/2011/11/08/142111804/penn-state-abuse-scandal-a-guide-and-timeline

What liberties do you think I've taken?

I only got as far as

[frigg]

Schultz/Curly met with Paterno and I stopped reading. If it isn't accurate, no point in reading it. Paterno wasn't present at that meeting. It's immportant to be accurate; doesn't make it any less unconscionable. :(

[ext_782404]

This is so disgusting. I'm saddened and disheartened and furious, which I know everyone is saying--but how else can a person feel? Thanks for posting all the facts, I'll be sure to point people in this direction when they say anything stupid so they can get their freaking information straight.

[cathshaffer]

This is really helpful. Yesterday I was getting opinions from all over the map, so I sought out this information so I could understand what was going on. It's very disappointing, very disheartening. This sort of thing keeps happening. It seems no matter how often a pedophile is covered up and protected by others, then exposed with maximum resulting scandal, it still happens over and over again. Part of the problem may be denial.

Many of the people who support Paterno mistakenly believe that he called the police.

[unrealfred]

Thank you. I didn't quite have the stomach to wade through the grand jury testimony myself, only the parts of it that have been widely reported. But even then, I thought the university made the right call in firing Paterno and Spanier. (And I say that as an alum and one-time University employee, who generally liked both of them up til now.) Turns out the failure to report, particularly by Paterno, is significantly worse than I'd thought.

It's a shame his career has to end like this, and that this has to tarnish the school's reputation, but it's much more a shame that he and others failed to protect those boys.

[renoir_girl]

Good god. Thank you for applying your considerable skills to this.