There's no reason to let a 10 year-old be in a shower with an unknown assistant coach
Cannoli Send a noteboard - 11/11/2011 05:15:14 PM
your view of parenting is extremely simpleminded. Just what was my mother supposed to do, never let me play with the next door neighbor (another kid my own brother's age) who had never shown signs of touching children or being creepy before? She couldn't read the kid's mind.
Yes, but no one is calling for the prosecution of peripheral figures in that scenario because they should have known. By the same token, how is Paterno supposed to know enough to take allegations seriously, based on what he thought he knew of the accused?
Could she have known? Probably not and that happens to be the case with many molestations. They often happen to be the people that parents are supposed to be able to trust, oh like say, a nationally known football coach in one of the most respected colleges in the nation who started a foundation to help struggling, underprivileged kids by taking them out of their shitty element to a place where education, discipline and hard work are celebrated? Oh those naive (dumb?) parents!
I don't know the details of how the kid came to be in a Penn State shower with the coach, but I have a hard time imagining any scenario where a parent shouldn't be looking for more information. I can't imagine my own parents allowing me to be on a college campus with only strangers at age 10, particularly around a football program, who probably have the worst media presentation of their behavior of almost any other college demographic short of frat houses.
Cannoli
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
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“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
*MySmiley*
I am getting really sick of opponents of pedophilia.
- 10/11/2011 10:07:02 PM
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to bad your parents didn't exercise their right to drown you in your bath water *NM*
- 10/11/2011 10:39:27 PM
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This is one of those rare moments where we are on the same page. *NM*
- 11/11/2011 02:08:43 AM
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I agree regarding Paterno
- 10/11/2011 11:15:36 PM
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Do you really believe that first part?
- 11/11/2011 01:52:59 AM
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Re: Do you really believe that first part?
- 11/11/2011 03:39:34 AM
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What evidence did Paterno have exactly? I have not found anything definitive on that. *NM*
- 13/11/2011 07:33:48 PM
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Leaving football coaches aside, I definitely agree on some points
- 11/11/2011 12:35:48 AM
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As someone who had a good mother and still was molested I have to say...
- 11/11/2011 01:25:53 AM
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There's no reason to let a 10 year-old be in a shower with an unknown assistant coach
- 11/11/2011 05:15:14 PM
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You kinda, um, conflated a lot of things there; were you TRYING to ensure everyone would disagree?
- 11/11/2011 12:49:51 PM
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I think that Cannoli is more opposed to the idea that people were being convicted in the court of
- 13/11/2011 07:51:53 PM
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no he argued the pedophilia is not a big deal because are kids are tough and can take it...
- 14/11/2011 02:36:54 PM
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Okay.Can't argue witht that after all. That was over the top even for him. Apparently my eyes had
- 15/11/2011 01:29:05 AM
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