` ` Penn State to honor late coach Paterno five years after scandal - This piece of garbage knew of and did absolutely nothing, to stop one of his own coaches, Jerry Sandusky, from sexually abusing at least ten boys. Penn State should be publicly brought to account for this greedy and insane act of theirs.
We have been having a Royal Commission into 'Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse here in Australia. It has been ongoing since 2013. I am not sure what the point of it is but I think it has something to do with establishing rules for institutions on how they handle child sexual abuse claims. Did this enabler do anything illegal? And is it possible that he wasn't sure that abuse was occurring? Why did the boy tell this guy and not his parents? What is the universities policy on reporting abuse allegations? Is there an internal investigation before it is reported to the police? I agree with you that all abuse claims should he reported directly to the police and I am not trying to excuse this guy for not doing that - and I do not know the details of what he knew exactly - but would you agree that laws could he clearer on reporting of abuse allegations? Do you think it would be a good idea to make it illegal for a person not to report abuse allegations to police? The problem that I see with many if the families of abused children in the Australian Royal Commission is that a lot if these kids parents went to talk to the church or school before reporting the abuse - and many if them did not take it any further. Do we need laws to make it illegal for a person or institution to not report abuse allegations to police immediately?
` 1) Anyone even remotely informed about this case knows that Joe Paterno was investigated and fired in disgrace because he knew exactly what Jerry Sandusky had been doing and deliberately chose to do nothing about it. 2) This issue here is the greed behind a multi-million dollar university sports program v. the lack of ethics and morals by honoring such a individual. ` ` ` ` `
I think the Australian Royal Commission in Responses to Child Abuse is relevant to this topic because we are trying to determine ways to prevent things like this from happening. I do not see how it is not relevant. Don't you think the global community needs uniform laws for all nations on institutional responses to child abuse? If Australia comes up with some laws that will help things like this from happening in USA then wouldn't you want USA to adopt the same laws? All of the solutions do not need to come from USA do they? And like I said - I am not remotely informed on this case - but since you inform me that the guy did know for sure that abuse was occurring then should he have gone to jail? We may come up with laws that send abuse enablers to jail from our Royal Commission. Wouldn't you agree with that if we do and want that for USA? So all that happened to this enabler was that he got fired? Is that really enough? And yes I agree with you - it is very poor form for the university to honour a child abuse enabler, but I would think this decision would hurt them more than help them right?
