While teaching elementary school I had a student who confided to me that her grandfather was touching her. I had her come with me to see the principal and sat with her while she repeated her story to him. We both stayed in that office as we called her mother first, and the police right after that, and remained there until both entities were present and the girl was interviewed. A substitute was called in to cover my classes.
This is how you handle a sexual abuse claim. You stand up and do the right thing, and you do it right then and there. You do not pass it off to your superior the next day and then not bother to see things through. Paterno practically ran that school. Curley, Schultz and the others would have done anything he said. All he had to do was say that he wanted the police contacted right then and there, and wasn't going anywhere until they all met and told the story of what happened.. A man of integrity would have done just that.
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