Scott Paterno Says Dad Joe Paterno Has Lung Cancer
Joe Paterno’s month just got worse.
After getting fired from Pen State for allegedly allowing his defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky to sexually abuse young men, the former head coach has revealed that he has lung cancer.
The former head of the Penn State Nittany Lions’s son Joe Paterno made the announcement to AP on Friday, explaining that his father has a treatable form of lung cancer, is responding well to treatments and asked for some privacy during these difficult times.
While undergoing treatment, Joe Paterno who leaded Pen State for over 46 years has hired several high powered lawyers and may take legal actions against the university for firing him without real probable cause.
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Regarding Penn State coach’s sexual abuse of crdhilen. I’m too upset to call on air. I’m so grateful for Mike Papantonio’s strong outrage about the responsibility and cowardice of Penn State men who chose money and football over the young crdhilen who will be damaged for life. I read the Grand Jury’s report which can be accessed from the Pennsylvania State Attorney General’s website. It summarizes in horrifying detail the testimony of many young males who were recruited, given special privileges and gifts, and then sexually abused and assaulted by this trusted coach Sandusky. There are probably dozens more crdhilen that were abused by this predator. It is impossible not to believe there was a deliberate coverup at multiple levels and on multiple occasions at Penn State just as in the Catholic church.My family lived in State College (home of Penn State) in the 1960 s. In that era, there were cases of young women being raped on campus by fraternity men. I don’t know what the university did then to deal with the perpetrators of those crimes and to prevent further sexual assaults. Sadly our society in general too often fails to protect crdhilen or women (and occasionally men, especially gay men) from sexual assault often in their own families, schools, athletic and social organizations, churches, etc. The physical, emotional, psychological, financial and social costs of such failure are huge and long lasting,often impacting generations.