This whole scandal at Penn State is infuriating and maddening and everywhere I turn, I see people asking, "Why didn't they stop it? Why didn't someone report this?" Good questions. Much of America is going to be talking about this until we get some good answers…or at least as good as we're likely to get.
Journalist Joe Posnanski is in the midst of writing a book about Joe Paterno. I'm not sure how I feel about all the points Mr. Posnanski makes in this blog post but I'm sure some of them are valid…and if one is interested in this case, it's probably important to consider them all. To some extent, this story is feeling like a jigsaw puzzle that everyone is trying to assemble without all the pieces.
A few pieces might be found in this article about the points of legal jeopardy that various parties now face.