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Completely Unbiased Final Judgement Of Paterno

Found January 31, 2012 on SPORTS by BROOKS: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Joe Paterno
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Not many are truly qualified to pass judgement on Joe Paterno’s actions following the the Nov. 4, 2011, arrest of former longtime Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky on dozens of charges related to child sexual abuse. Let alone those who might try to accurately characterize Paterno’s reaction to Sandusky frequenting the Penn State locker room in the nine years after Paterno was first made aware of a child rape allegation against Sandusky in the shower of the same PSU facility. But, with the bolded text below, SbB hopes to accurately ascribe the behavior of the late Penn State football coach in the aftermath of Paterno first learning of the Sandusky child rape allegation in the Penn State locker room in 2002. – Paterno (11/6/2011): “As coach Sandusky was retired from our coaching staff at that time, I referred the matter to university administrators.” Paterno (1/12/2012) “I backed away and turned it over to some other people, peopl...
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