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Originally Posted by Mr. Ford95
See, this is where I have a tiny bit of experience. Guy worked at a tire shop where we get all our tires, we didn't hang out with each other but we were friendly and joked around while I was there mainly because his brother drove a truck also. Out of the blue he isn't there one day, or the next day, open the paper and see he's been arrested for "raping" a 15 year old. Of course he bonds out of jail and goes back to the tire shop to let them know what is going on and see if he can still work there until the trial(they did allow him to keep working.) I never once looked at him as some bad guy just because of what I read in the paper. Instead I asked him about what I had read on him, he told me his side and I still came away feeling the same as I did before. There was no hatred towards him. He was convicted and got like 8 years but he maintained that it was consensual and she had told him she was 19 just like he had told me. When he gets out, if I see him around I won't pop him in the mouth or turn my back on him. You don't toss a friend under the bus just because you hear something about them. You find out what is going on, if they tell you it's BS and you don't believe them, then by all means toss them under the bus and go to the police.
What does that have to do with ANYTHING? Not even close to the same. YOU had no responsibility to do a thing. The guy was already under arrest and whether you choose to believe him or not is irrelevant.
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Originally Posted by Mr. Ford95
Apparently Joe went to Sandusky to find out what was up, apparently he believed Sandusky enough to not call the police right then and there. Hindsight is 20/20, Joe admitted he made a mistake there in believing Sandusky.
First of all where are you getting this? Secondly thats your answer? Joe says "hey Jerry did you rape that kid? Jerry says no Joe. Joe says OK friend dont worry about it. Give me a freakin break. And even if it happened that's OK with you even though Joe was wrong? Cmon man! Joe was aware of accusations back to 1998. McQueary told Joe exactly what he saw and Joe and the others told McQueary to forget what he saw. McQueary is a pssuy for letting them push him around but he was crystal clear in court on what he saw. He finally manned up. There is so much more beneath the surface that we dont know. It stinks to high heaven. Thats why Penn State is laying down, they just want it to go away before any more dirt gets discovered.
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Originally Posted by Mr. Ford95
Joe did inform the school of a possible issue with Sandusky, it was their job at that point to dig deeper not Joe's.
This is the part you dont want to believe. Joe informed them alright, not just in 2001. Sandusky was a problem on their hands for years. And they collectively decided it was best to not say anything. Granted it was probably a lot of whispering and finger pointing. It would have been difficult to prove. But they knew, they knew for years. They just didnt want the bad publicity. And you're crazy if you think for a minute Joe wasn't involved in those conversations. He was involved in everything.