# Explain The Penn State Fiasco **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 10, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-penn-state-fiasco/602451 "2011-11-10T00:37:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 111
**Author:** ![md2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-penn-state-fiasco/602451/111 "2011-11-15T19:05:58Z")
> [@leftfield6](#): > > Now there are reports that McQueary (correct spelling!) did stop the rape he observed. Apparently that fact was not mentioned in the grand jury documentation because it wasn’t a fact that was requires to get the indictment against Sandusky. > > If that is the case then he deserves a _little_ more slack than we’ve been giving him. Still should have done more after the fact, IMHO. Yeah. He should have reported it to the campus police. After all, if he’d spent 10 years or more on campus, he’d know that gets results. Or he could wait until the mayor or the governor were seated in their complimentary box during one of the games, and told them… (sarcasm alert!) What do you suggest he do after the fact? We’re yapping in circles here, but when the whole small town deck is stacked against you, how much effort do you put into it? Maybe he told the local prosecutor, the one who mysteriously disappeared… I say he displayed a lot of courage by telling Paterno in the first place. I give Paterno credit for not railroading the guy out of town as a threat… maybe Paterno did not believe him, just thought he was misunderstanding what he saw. Willful blindness. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-penn-state-fiasco/602451)._