Anyone who was expecting the Penn State case to go away because Joe Paterno was fired and the Nittany Lions got back on the field clearly isn’t paying attention.
This case is going to linger for months. And every time it pops up, the cloud surrounding Penn State grows a little larger.
A few people have managed to do an incredible amount of damage to a revered – and by the way very important - institution in Pennsylvnia.
One day after we heard from suspected child molester Jerry Sandusky in an ill-advised TV interview in which he denied being a pedophile, but pretty much admitted a bunch of other inappropriate activities with young boys, the lead accuser in the case is being heard from.
Sort of.
Penn State Assistant Coach Mike McQueary told the investigative grand jury that brought charges in the case that he witnessed Sandusky sexually abusing a young boy in a shower back in 2002.
McQueary did not indicate that he did anything to stop the attack, nor did he say that he reported it to police. What he testified is that he went home and told his father, and the next day he reported what he saw to Coach Joe Paterno.
Now an email has surfaced in which McQueary tells a slightly different story, that he did intervene to stop the attack and that he also notified police. You can read the full story here.
This case has all the makings of a “he said, he said” standoff.
In the meantime, a great institution is being bruised and battered.
That is not to diminish the victims in this case, nor what is alleged to have been done to them.
It is only to point out that the school is also a victim in this sordid affair.
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