Joe Paterno needs to be in prison

Pennsylvania doesn’t dick around with rape:

§ 3121. Rape

(a)Offense defined.–A person commits a felony of the first degree when the person engages in sexual intercourse with a complainant:

  • (1) By forcible compulsion.
  • (2) By threat of forcible compulsion that would prevent resistance by a person of reasonable resolution.
  • (3) Who is unconscious or where the person knows that the complainant is unaware that the sexual intercourse is occurring.
  • (4) Where the person has substantially impaired the complainant’s power to appraise or control his or her conduct by administering or employing, without the knowledge of the complainant, drugs, intoxicants or other means for the purpose of preventing resistance.
  • (5) Who suffers from a mental disability which renders the complainant incapable of consent.
  • (6) (Deleted by amendment)

(b) Additional penalties.–In addition to the penalty provided for by subsection (a), a person may be sentenced to an additional term not to exceed ten years’ confinement and an additional amount not to exceed $100,000 where the person engages in sexual intercourse with a complainant and has substantially impaired the complainant’s power to appraise or control his or her conduct by administering or employing, without the knowledge of the complainant, any substance for the purpose of preventing resistance through the inducement of euphoria, memory loss and any other effect of this substance.

 

(c) Rape of a child.–  A person commits the offense of rape of a child, a felony of the first degree, when the person engages in sexual intercourse with a complainant who is less than 13 years of age.

(d) Rape of a child with serious bodily injury.–A person commits the offense of rape of a child resulting in serious bodily injury, a felony of the first degree, when the person violates this section and the complainant is under 13 years of age and suffers serious bodily injury in the course of the offense.

 

(e) Sentences.–Notwithstanding the provisions of section  1103 (relating to sentence of imprisonment for felony), a person convicted of an offense under:

  • (1) Subsection (c) shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment which shall be fixed by the court at not more than 40 years.
  • (2) Subsection (d) shall be sentenced up to a maximum term of life imprisonment.

(Dec. 21, 1984, P.L.1210, No.230, eff. 60 days; Mar. 31, 1995, 1st Sp.Sess., P.L.985, No.10, eff. 60 days; Dec. 19, 1997, P.L.621, No.65, eff. 60 days; Dec. 9, 2002, P.L.1350, No.162, eff. 60 days; Dec. 16, 2002, P.L.1953, No.226, eff. 60 days)

Guess you know my feeling.  What’s yours?

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  • Jay

    I don’t understand this article. Why does Joe need to be in prison? He was not the one that raped anybody. That was Jerry Sandusky who (allegedly) did it. If convicted, then yes….he deserves prison…many, many times over.
    Keep in mind that the only legal document we have to go off of at this point is the Grand Jury Report (not testimony). The subject of the report was Jerry Sandusky- therefore it was not necessary to focus on what Joe Paterno did or did not do.

  • http://moonagewebdream.com Moonage

    Guess I should have been more specific. By knowing what was going on and doing nothing to prevent it, he aided and abetted several felonies. I just assume people understand that aspect of the law.

    I think it is necessary, to send the message out to anyone else who might be aware of something like this happening and doing nothing to prevent it. Sandusky will be forgotten in short time. Paterno is a name people will talk about for generations to come.