Former Penn State Coach Arrested

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

I can tell you that as a physician, I can't just ignore a report of child abuse. It doesn't matter if I don't see it myself. If someone tells me they witnessed something like this, I have to call child protective services. Your responsibility is to assure that someone checks on the child.

That gets into being a mandatory reporter. I had the same responsibility when I was a preschool teacher during college.

I do wonder if Paterno, as a state employee at a college, had a similar responsibility. Like Kevin, I don't know enough PA law to say one way or the other.

Either way, you have to think Paterno made a conscious choice to do only what he thought he was required to do. He heard something awful about someone he had known for years, and chose to limit his reporting of the incident.