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It's disgusting, but it doesn't surprise me. When you think of institutions like that as being something like a mafia family, you really can't say anything without jeopardizing your career/family/reputation since you ARE complicit in it simply by finding out...And trying to accuse "the don" or his higher-ups of something as nasty as child abuse is something a lot of people will, unfortunately, avoid doing because of the risks it makes to their social circles if for some reason the accusations are false or whatever. It is a really sad set of circumstances.

People don't want to hear even when its told to them directly, it's crazy. I lived in State College and worked at Penn State for awhile and I do think there is a certain culture of self protection and sort of a boys club mentality. It wasn't just JoePa that knew, so many people both at the University and in the community, including child welfare services and the guys charity, had been aware of serious allegations against Sandusky and no one did anything. Heck, I think even our governor, Tom Corbett, is partially responsible, he was attorney general at the time and there was plenty of evidence to at least do more intensive investigations. JoePa was a speaker at the RNC back in the day and Sandusky was a big contributor too. It wasn't a question of people not knowing or not alerting the right people. lots had been aware of allegations against him. It's that people had evidence but were too afraid of the consequences of investigating further.