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Originally Posted by David
The one thing that would give a Joe a pass is that once something like this is passed on to your supervisor, not only is it not your responsibility to follow up on, it may not be legal to know what's happening due to confidentiality. So assuming Joe figured an investigation was performed, he would not be privy to the outcome.
If he had witnessed the abuse then it's a whole different story and something he should have followed.
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Maybe. Maybe that's technically legally true.
But as the police commissioner said as quoted in the ESPN article:
"State police commissioner Frank Noonan said, as far as state police can tell, Paterno fulfilled his legal requirement to report.
"But somebody has to question about what I would consider the moral requirements for a human being that knows of sexual things that are taking place with a child," Noonan said. "I think you have the moral responsibility, anyone. Not whether you're a football coach or a university president or the guy sweeping the building. I think you have a moral responsibility to call us."
Maybe you and others would be comfortable in Paterno's shoes, feeling you met some technical requirement.
While this was happening in your locker room.
And by being a little more proactive you might have been able to stop 10 year olds from being raped by a pervert.
Some of you could sleep well at night, I guess. Even consider yourself a "pillar of responsibility." I couldn't. Not even close.