Judges don't typically just make shit up out of thin air when they write out court orders. They are based on evidence that has been presented to them. Even if this judge just decided to lie in a court order, for some unknown fucking reason, then Paterno only enabled child rape for 15 years. My bad, he is a good guy.
Now ur just being purposely obtuse. The judge didn't say that the allegation is true, merely that the allegation occurred. And the only source of the allegation is one of the insurance companies who is a litigant in the case. Through the countless hours/dollars/investigators who have looked into this case, this "bombshell" has not been discovered by anyone but one insurance company. Not Louis Freeh and thousands of subpoenas, emails, pages of results, testimonies...nope...it's Jimmy CrackCorn Insurance and their ace investigative squad that found this allegation. Oh, and how convenient...it doesn't come up until it most benefits them, and there's no way to be able to present any defense for it. Such amaze, much wow.
If you believe that Joe Paterno knew that Jerry Sandusky was raping children as long as 40 years ago, and chose to not only do nothing about it, but actively covered it up...okay. If you believe that Joe Paterno was donating millions of his own dollars towards the well-being of children, all while knowingly covering up for a monster who was raping children...alright. If you believe that Joe Paterno knew nothing of these atrocities, did the right thing once he heard about it from McQueary, and is still a wonderful, saint-like figure...um, go ahead. If you believe that Joe Paterno was such a leacherous monster, that he knew of Sandusky's crimes, and did nothing about it for the sake of winning football games; all while celebrating "Success with Honor" and not taking the typical "shortcuts" to winning football games...shine on.
I think all 4 of those stances are stupid and make absolutely no sense. I can be nuanced enough to say that I don't want Joe Paterno celebrated, because he himself declared that he wished he had done more, while not calling him a rape enabler because the rest of his life/actions/speech is completely contradictory to that.
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