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The man who witnessed Sandusky sodomizing the young boy was a graduate assistant---about 22,23 years old at the time...More than likely, he held the coaching staff, and anything affiliated with Penn State football in high regard...To walk in on such a dastardly act was more than shocking, to say the least..I'd like to think I'd know what I'd do in his situation, but never having been, I can't say for sure what I would have done facing such horror and shock...He was the age of many of Wierwille's victims of sexual abuse, where adulation for one's mentors and the moral right path can conflict with eachother... What he saw, and what the Penn State administrators 'heard' were two different stories according to the Grand Jury report..."Sodomizing" and "horsing around" are not the same thing....There is no excuse IMO, for everybody from Joe Paterno on up the Penn State administrative ladder to not directly find out exactly what the grad assistant "saw"...Sexual abuse allegations are dead serious---you don't take a vague accusation and pass it along to you're superior unless there's some substance to it...Paterno spoke to the eyewitness---he had the first duty to find out exactly what the eyewitness saw...Why report to your superior something you're vague or unsure about?...The eyewitness went to his father first---distraught...Why would his father tell him to 'sugarcoat' what he saw, rather than just tell him to not go to Paterno in the first place?... Along with the fact that many other victims have been abused by Sandusky after this incident, it's sad to see an icon brought down by not doing the morally right thing, when morality was his supposed calling card...Overall this has been and will continue to be a tragedy of epic proportions....

I find sexual predators in general to be blights on society, without qualification. I find it disturbing when I see someone trying to excuse serial predators. For example, vpw set up an elaborate structure to facilitate sexual predation. He set up so he could find women to target, he set up places to prey on them, a network of people to conspire with him, and walk them through an innocent arrival somewhere through "exit counseling" them to keep their mouths shut or report they were going to speak up so he could have them excoriated. That's not even addressing setting up doctrine so he could have a "script" to work from they'd already accepted. Then people come along and make it sound as if vpw walks into his office one day and a woman's sprawled nekkid across his desk with a flower in her teeth. "What's he supposed to do?" Well, even IF such a fantasy thing happened, the MARRIED MINISTER is supposed to turn and run from his office until he can get one or more people to accompany him back to his office. This is why Billy Graham has made it a practice to arrange never to EVER be alone with a woman- not even in an elevator. It allows him to be faithful to his marriage before God, anf it allows God's people to trust him to refrain from opportunistic sin. All of this is different from conspiring to commit sin, making elaborate arrangements, then carrying them out- which vpw did and taught lcm and others to do as well, making them two-fold the child of hell he was, if at all possible.