Do you remember when your parents found out that you did something, like not turn in a homework or pick a fight and they would punish you. You know you didn't do what they were claiming you did but you still got punished regardless. A couple day would pass and then the truth would surface and lo and behold your parents were apologizing for making you suffer for a couple of days. You eventually forgave them because there were no long term effects. Well in the following story the victim was not so lucky.
You may or may not remember Austin Scott but 2 years ago he was kicked off the Penn St football team. The team gave no thorough explanation, only citing that he broke team rules. Joe Pa at the time was taking a lot of heat for having several players, within a span of one year, in trouble with the law. So he waited no time in making his decision to, not just suspend, but eliminate Austin from his team all together. It left the media quite puzzled until word leaked out of what exactly Austin was "Accused" (and I stress that word) of doing. A Penn State University female pressed charges against Austin stating that he had raped her.
The choice to kick Austin off the team instantly was a very popular choice at the time within the media. The media hears something like this and they automatically create a popular sentiment in the population as to who is good and who is evil. The popular "black" masculine football player could not possibly be the victim in a case against a defenseless weaker "white" woman? Thats what the media sadly builds on because thats what the public wants to believe. Well now it seems as though Coach Paterno and Penn State University should have taken their time to evaluate the situation a bit longer. Mr. Scott was never convicted and as a matter of fact the trial got thrown out because the "Victim" had done this before. Hmmm, you mean to tell me that their are people out there that purposely target others? People in the spotlight, as much as one might not subconsciously sympathize, are constantly vulnerable to their own success.
Well now Mr. Scott plans to take action and rightfully so. His hopes of going to the NFL were crushed and his reputation was ruined all because of a false accusation. Can you really be punished for "gossip" or talk? So why did Penn St. feel they had the authority to kick Austin off of the football program because he "might" have broken a rule? It should be a very interesting trial to follow in the coming months.
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