To catch up those who are not collegiate football fans: the Penn State football program, for several decades, has been regarded as the ur-type of collegiate sports. Everything that is good is encompassed therein, and many colleges and universities across the nation have patterned themselves after Penn State. This remarkable legend is due solely to their football coach: JP.
Scandal: one of JP's direct reports (defensive coordinator) was caught in the act of doing unspeakable things to a 10 year old boy in the shower. Said person, and the fact he was a pedophile and sexual predator, was well know to JP and the entire command staff up and down the Penn State athletic department. Rather than act immediately to neutralize this demon, they protected him, and this effort continued for years.
Ya know, in my book, if you are aware of a crime and do nothing to bring the evil doer to justice, then you are just as culpable as the perpetrator himself. So, yes, I am suggesting that JP himself might just as well have violated that young, innocent boy himself. His crime would be no greater.
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