Pedophiles in coaches clothing

Well well well. Another day, another scandal involving a priest who likes little boys. Oh, wait, not a priest this time. Thank god, let me go back and read the news.

I live in Pennsylvania and the big news is that a former assistant coach of the Penn State University football team apparently abused a bunch of young boys while he was an assistant coach and a volunteer at a summer camp during the 90's amd 2000's while coaching under the reign of Joe Paterno, arguably one of the greatest coaches in the history of college football.

Which is kind of like saying that some priests molested children while Pope Jone Paul was in charge of the church, a great Pope, who turned a blind eye to his priests lusting ways.

So the story out of state college goes something like this. About a decade ago a grad student happened to see an old assistant coach raping a young boy in the football teams showers. He told the head coach, Joe Paterno, who is a saint in State College. Joe told the athletic director, who told someone, who may have told someone else, but that is about it. The rapist continued to host football camps for young boys and probably continued to rape, or at least have access to young boys. Joe Paterno had to have been aware of his assistant coaches lustful ways and apparently did nothing to stop it.

So, last night the board of trustees fired old Joe and the schools presidents. Good bye, have a nice retirement. Joe is 85, he should have been gone a long time ago. In fact, just yesterday old Joe had promised to retire at the end of the year and had even said something to the effect of, "the trustees should go about their business and forget about me, I will retire at the end of the year." The trustees, acting for the first time in a long time like responsible adults, said, fuck you Joe, leave.

See, it's one thing to be a sick pedophile, we all hate sick pedophiles and we all think they should be locked up and left there, that part is simple. What do we do with the enablers of the pedophiles? Well, we fire them. That's the least we do. Chances are the parents of the children will sue the school, the pedophile and the former coach, which is fine by me. See, really, this is not some sort of Shakespearean tragedy, although the retarded students at Penn State who rioted last night in protest of poor old Joe being fired would like you to believe that, no it is not a tragedy, unless you a 10 year old boy who was anally raped by an old man in a public shower, then that is a tragedy. No, this is what I believe the police call a crime.

It is a crime to rape a child. It is also a crime to know about a man raping a child and not report it. Shame on Joe Paterno.

I am pretty sure there could be a deeper meaning here, something about repressed sexuality in a society focused on shopping and reality TV and shit like that, but I am too stupid for that sort of thinking. What I know from personal experience is that sometimes old men like to touch young boys for whatever reason, and those old men are flawed and need to be put away, hopefully with other old men who touch young boys, so they can spend the rest of their days touching one another in ways only they can comprehend. I am not sure the death penalty if a deterrent or if it makes victims families rest easier, but I do know it seems to stop the criminals from ever doing the same crimes again. With pedophiles, they seem driven by these inner demons that they have no control over. Locking them up and throwing away the key seems like a nice way to deal with them, but if that is not an option, putting them down like the rabid dogs they have become does seem to be all that we have left. You can not allow grown men to abuse young boys and girls and ever walk around free again.

In this case and cases like it, I would say the same is true for the people who knew of the criminal and did nothing to stop him or turn him in. I know, we throw out Nazi Germany whenever it fits or seems to fit, but this time, it fits. How many times do we turn this blind eye to evil? How many times are we going to allow this sort of evil to exist and the witnesses who could have done something decades ago to have done nothing and just shrug their shoulders and walk free? No, Joe Paterno had a pedophile working for him, over a decade ago he knew he had a child rapist in his locker room with innocent 10 year old boys. He allowed him access. He is as guilty as the pedophile for not shutting that down. Joe Paterno has been the Pope of Penn State, and in this case, like that one, the abuse has to stop and the people who allow abuse need to be held accountable, not by god, but by a court and a judge.