# Pitting ALL those who are Ok with a man watching a child being raped

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**Created:** [November 15, 2011, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-all-those-who-are-ok-with-a-man-watching-a-child-being-raped/602982 "2011-11-15T05:24:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_In_Black)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-all-those-who-are-ok-with-a-man-watching-a-child-being-raped/602982/13 "2011-11-15T20:16:09Z")

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> [@Explain The Penn State Fiasco](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-penn-state-fiasco/602451/111):
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> 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!)
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> 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…
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> 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.

Your attitude makes me sick. What fucking town was stacked against him? Your telling me that you think if he called child services and reported the rape, that they would have told him it was kool with them and to let it go?

And how about the children that were harmed after he watched the rape? He could have potentially saved those kids from going through it. But he chose not to.

I am really starting to think you are one of those people who feel that rape isn’t a crime. Or that it dosn;t really happen. If so, you have a real problem.  
md2000, Ann Hedonia is right. There is a special place in Hell for you.

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