UNITED STATES
Boys Don’t Tell
Joe Paterno: JoePa was the winningest NCAA Division 1 football coach of all time. He worked at Penn State University for 61 years and was head coach for 46 years. Besides helping thousands of young men grow up with the best sports had to offer, he and his wife gave four million dollars to Penn State and funded the library.
Graham Spanier: President of Penn State University for sixteen years at a salary of over a half a million dollars per year. He was one of the top paid public college executives in the country. …
There is also a separate front where our courts are demanding accountability from leaders in the Catholic Church for their role in covering up for suspected and know child molesters. Monsignor William Lynn of Philadelphia and Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City are the first religious leaders being put on trial for protecting perpetrators and the church, instead of protecting the children.
We have things happening here that never would have taken place even two years ago. Our courts are holding administrative representatives of institutions to a higher standard. And the institutions themselves are saying stop to child sex abuse and the culture that supports powerful perpetrators over protecting kids from abuse.
Although we have a long, long ways to go in protecting our children from abuse, this demand for accountability by the courts, the public, and the offending institutions themselves represents a tremendous level of success in the fight against child sex abuse. Those who have worked long and hard to get to this point have a right to celebrate their success. It’s going to take a lot more people and effort for the next steps, so please invite others to join in the fight as we move forward.
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