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Originally Posted by BackinBlackSS/RS
Legally they acted appropriately. How about morally? Again, they knew what he did to that child. I just can't get past that. Anyways, good debate, I'm sure many answers will come over the next weeks and months.
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Morality and Legality go hand in hand. Unfortunately in this litigious society that we now live in, it could have gone very bad for PSU (monetarily I mean) had they acted hastily and handed Sandusky over or made the accusations public.
Nowadays morality takes a back seat to legality. I'm sorry but if I'm told by a superior to STFU and GBTW and that they will take care of it, I'm going to do just that. This then covers me and my company legally. Morally, I'll hate myself but unless I can assure that I can get this to the police under complete anonymity, I'm going to stop. It's then the responsibility of the lawyer (as they know of an on-going crime) to notify the authorities.
The only way they could have gone further is if they had actively encouraged the GA to go to the police as he was the only eye witness that they knew of at the time (I don't know if they knew what the Janitors had seen).