Joe Pa needs to go today
November 9th 2011 20:30
According to ESPN, Legendary coach Joe Paterno will retire at the end of this season with the grace and dignity that his legend has afforded him. This means he will be afforded the gracious exit of being lifted upon the shoulders of the players he cared for one last victory lap. This will be the last time we can spit in the face of these victims whom were harmed immeasurably by the actions of Jerry Sandusky and the inaction of the Penn State hierarchy.
This is not the normal player's having sneaker boxes filled with cash type of scandal. This one hits deeper to the core of humanity. According to published reports, then graduate assistant Mike McCreary in 2002 caught Sandusky in a compromising position with a ten year old boy. McCreary reported this to Paterno who reported it to his superiors Athletic Director, Tim Curley and senior vice president Gary Schultz. After these reports no further action was taken by the university other than to ban Sandusky from bringing children on campus.
Penn State gave Sandusky a strong message: You can be a pedophile but not on this campus.
Sandusky who was arrested Saturday for 40 criminal acts of child sex abuse is one of the worse kinds of child predators, a predator with connections. He used his "Second Mile" program for underprivileged children as a perverse dating service and had unquestioned access to not only the Penn State facilities but the most famous man in the state, Joe Paterno. The question isn't how much of a sexual deviant Sandusky is, it’s how could Penn State allow this monster to put more children in danger?
After 2002, seven more children alleged that Sandusky had sexually inappropriate relationships with them. Yet not only was he allowed on Penn States campus, he still had an office there! While children were being scarred for life Sandusky had free reign and access of everyone and everything on campus after it being discovered that he was a pedophile.
A child's innocence is the one thing all parents and human beings try to protect. Joe Paterno who has been at the forefront of helping children and has been known as a beacon of light in education made a conscious decision. He decided that the Penn State brand was more important than children's innocence and justice being served. For that decision he deserves to never coach another game where he molds children into men
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