Scott Paterno claims the victims are are lying
Here is an article breaking down some of what was released today about sandusky & Penn State
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/07/12/joe-patern…
In a world struggling to provids a safe outlet for rape victims to prosecture their offenders how in the hell can Scott Paterno stand their and claim the victims are lying. I don't have anything constructive to say except that you sir are a douche.
More like psychopaths.
Or whoever left the orange juice in the refrigerator with just a dribble left in the carton.
You sick bastard.
Oh yeah. Those fuckers.
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Even if the victims were 100% full of shit, there were a host of allegations raised to Paterno's attention as early as 1971 according to one victim, and definitely by 1976 according to PSU documentation.
The fact that Paterno was aware of these allegations, while PSU subsequently paid settlements in 6 different cases, including cases in 1987 and 1988 - a full decade before Sandusky mysteriously "retired" to focus on his "charity" work (Second Mile creeper van) but retained access to all PSU football facilities for his use in grooming future potential victims - means his legitimacy of plausible deniability doesn't exist.
Even if the victims are lying, Paterno knew, PSU paid settlements, and Sandusky lost his PSU paycheck. Even if the victims lied, Scott Paterno can't save his dad's legacy. He failed to act and he both enabled and covered up for a child rapist. This moral failing colors and overshadows every bit of good he did in his life.
And to be clear, the repeated allegations, over decades, with consistent modus operandi for Sandusky and consistent stories from the victims, if nothing else, supplied enough smoke for an employer to reasonably conclude there's enough probability of fire to act, and Paterno and PSU didn't.
...can rot together in Hell
of news reports of court developments that have continued as Sandusky seeks a new criminal trial and civil trial proceedings bring about new disclosures. It's not like Scott Paterno has denied his father's failure to report when the judge in a lawsuit over Penn State cash settlement payouts to victims in the Sandusky allegations issued an opinion in early May noting that Joe Paterno had six opportunities to report based on settlement claims and basically never did. This is a judge's opinion, not some investigation by a former FBI director. This is documented legal opinion.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/paterno-son-denies-allegations-father-sandus…
I just went over to PSU's Rivals board to see if their reaction was/is as inappropriate as the readership around here claims.... it is. That said, they do make some good points in terms of what people are saying in their depositions. Of course PSUNation sees only impossibilities and contradictions.
What I see are a whole bunch of grown men constantly saying whatever it takes to maintain their own viability. Usually containing just enough truthiness to pass muster. Of course everyone had suspicions or worse about Sandusky's conduct. Not one of them said a word. Everyone is lying except perhaps for McQueary who was caught entirely in his see-no-evil act and therefore has nothing to lose. The shame continues in Happy Valley.
Think about this.... We got Bo after missing on Paterno. We got Rich Rod after missing on Schiano. I'm no fan of RR, but I doubt he's the type to enable/excuse child rape. Another near miss. Sometimes it's (much) better to be lucky than good.
McQueary getting caught in anything is his own doing.
Seriously.
How do you not walk into that shower and beat the living shit out of Sandusky and help that kid out?
Most decent human beings can relate. McQueary took the chicken shit route out. He's just as culpable in all of this as St JoePa.
Fuck Penn State.
Ummm... I'm not here to rank wrongdoing.
I think my post is clear to what I think of McQueary.
Scott is like a child on the playground (excuse the irony of the analogy) who was just told by another child that their dad could beat up his dad. Except the world and facts are telling Scott that the world would have been better off if his grandmother had swallowed.
Sandusky and all pedophiles need to be removed from the gene pool. I have no problem extending that solution to anyone who protects said pedophiles to serve their own interests either. Glad your scum dad's legacy is trash now, Scott.
Fuck Penn State.
"ScoPa"
I'm sure there is something someone testified to that is in some way exaggerated or incorrect (almost certainly unintentionally) in some capacity. I can understand someone nitpicking a particular detail or claim. (For example, abuse was reported to coach Kevin O'Dea in 1988 supposedly; Kevin O'Dea did not come to Penn State until 1991.)
But to act like none of this happened and its a giant conspiracy is just absurd. Even if only 90% of what is getting testified to is accurate, Penn State's coaches over multiple decades institutionally covered up child abuse and the only common denominator along those decades is Joe Paterno, the man who also -- just coincedentally!! -- would be the person most able to put into place and enforce said institutional blind eye to child abuse. To claim otherwise takes a special level of hubris and evil.
I just watched Spotlight the other day on Netflix, and besides how well done that movie was, it showed just how deep an institution will go to cover up something as severe as child abuse. And considering the time period of both the PSU and the church events, it was practically impossible for young boys to come out and say they've been molested, especially when you consider who the molesters are. Police turned blind eyes. Anyone in a position of power turned blind eyes to this becuase it was not socially acceptable to bring about such claims against godly figures such as bishops, cardinals, and JoePa.
It's sickening to believe that so many people ignored the cries of little kids, all so their life would remain steady. Nobody was willing to rock the boat.
Flip to current times, and now it's a nightmare with how often people get offended and cry about it. Talk about a complete 180.
I can't see any reason why Penn State should still have a football team. Why they haven't been kicked out of the B1G. Why the NCAA didn't give them the death penalty indefinitely. It's sick and everyone involved with have to live and die with the choices they made. It makes me sick.
Fuck Penn State. And Fuck any lowlife scum that has committed and/or enabled child abuse and molestation. The worst of the worst.
That's what I understood from that movie as well. It was beyond belief that people could keep protecting child molesters for so long. Then when you listen to one of the interviews Sacha had in the movie, where the ex-clergy talks about the difference between what is child molestation and what is not, one can start to see the depth and abnormality of the problem.
They should make a sequel about Penn State. Spotlight was great.
Scott Paterno: "Because... ahh.. because... ahh... because... hey, what's a got gotta do to get a Big Mac around here?"
Can't you people just move on??
There's clearly nothing to see here...
The thought of him bringing Sandusky here and him opening a Second Mile in Ann Arbor or Ypsilanti...just scary as hell to think about.
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if it would have somehow disconnected him from Sandusky and instead Sandusky would have been caught before raping children for a decade.
Nah--the Sandusky thing merely turned my dislike of Joepa to hate. I was never a fan of his political orientation or the stances he took on issues I care passionately about. He was also pretty soft on rape accusations against his players--every accusation was downplayed with a "boys will be boys" type of line.
They must really be lying if they are ARE lying.
We can officially add JoePa, Greg Schiano, and Tom Bradley to this chart
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While what he's saying is awful, I at least understand the impulse. I can't image how difficult it would be to live with that legacy of your late father. Denial is a part of the process for someone in his position.
the Joe Pa Cult. As someone else here just said, they'll take their belief that he is a Saint to their graves.
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All of those idiots signed that ridiculous petition to have his fucking statue put up. You looked stupid then, you look even worse now, congratulations.
It's the only thing that makes sense. Id start investigating the Paterno family for new accusations.
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HIs reaction is not surprising to me. If my 11 year old son came home today covered in blood, clutching a knife and holding the severed head of another child in his hand but told my wife "he didnt do anything" she'd believe him. I mean she'd honestly believe him and would get pissed at me if I suggested our little angel just might have done something bad. The power of love is an amazing thing and makes some people utterly incapable of seeing things as they REALLY are and not as they want them to be.
Scott Paterno loved his dad. Scott Paterno will NEVER accept the fact that the man he loved knowingly enabled and subsequently protected a child rapist because that doesnt "fit" inside his view of his father.
Not defending him in the least here (I think he's a delusional asshole) but I get why he's doing it.
It goes beyond that. Everything Scott Paterno is and has in life is based on his relation to The Great Man. If the accusations are true then it affects him financially by killing any future career he may have (which at this point seems to be devoted solely to preserving his fathers lagacy).
Scott Paterno can have any delusions he wishes about his father in the privacy of his own home, but does he have to publish his "detective work" on Twitter and accuse rape victims of lying?
Pretty high probability that Scott Paterno knew everything. His Dad had to talk to someone about all this.
Scott,check up from the neck up!!!
I guess one of the victims, who was at a PSU football camp many years ago, testified that when he confronted Joe Paterno, or was referred to him rather to tell him what had happened, Paterno turned him away, saying that he didn't want to hear it and had a football season to worry about. If that's the case, wow....there are no words to express how far that fucking statue should be buried beneath the Earth.