If the campus police are sworn officers, they are real police, just working for a university rather than a city. I'd guess that a 911 call from campus would be routed to the campus police, and the process would slow response time. In the case of Penn State, at this point it appears that only the earlier complaint, which didn't include an actual sex act, was actually reported to the campus police, and it was fairly extensively investigated and referred to a state agency. This is not to say that campus police departments, like all police departments, aren't subject to cronyism and corruption.
eta: A university or small town force normally turns over a crime like murder to county or state investigators.
I did not know that it was referred to a state agency. So why wasn't it followed through at the state agency level?
Is this where the DA's disappearance comes in?
Here's an article on the '98 investigation: [link]
Hil, a college friend of mine is giving a seminar at PSU today - Michelle Lacey, who teaches at Tulane. Say hi if you go!
(Edit: In Math, natch. She's in Statistics.)
On another topic, I am glad there is such national outrage over the rape of boys. I just wish there were comparable outrage over the rape of girls and women, which I suspect is rather more common in the grand scheme of things.
Oh Ginger.
That's really terrible. I cannot believe that they thought this guy showering with a 10-year-old was "boundary issues." Well, I think the state and the feds need to get involved with this given the police involved may have done something wrong.
I'm disgusted.
I'm really disgusted.
What I want to know is did the custodian and the GA having seen that coach raping a little boy(s) - intervene directly right there and why not?
Yeah, the whole thing is beyond appalling.
What I couldn't remember this morning was how this all came to light now. How did this story break?
What I want to know is did the custodian and the GA having seen that coach raping a little boy(s) - intervene directly right there and why not?
Yeah. I especially want to know this about Mike McQueary. The janitor who saw it was an older man, who has dementia now and was most likely in the early stages then. But Mike McQueary was a 27-year-old former football player. And he continued to see Sandusky around town supervising kids for the next ten years, and said nothing.
What I couldn't remember this morning was how this all came to light now. How did this story break?
One of the kids told a counselor at his school.
