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The NCAA has banned Penn State's football team from postseason play for the next four years, slashed the number of football scholarships and vacated more than a decade of the team's wins as sanctions for a lack of oversight that led to the child sex abuse scandal involving former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.

July 12--The 267-page report released Thursday on the Jerry Sandusky scandal at Penn State reveals some disturbing details, and shows how a university can be taken over by its football program.

The alleged sexual abuse of minors and cover-ups at Penn State, other instances involving the Catholic Church and cases where school administrators concealed educator misconduct in exchange for resignations all form an alarming pattern that must be addressed. The incidents involve two phases and trusted institutions. The first phase is an allegation or suspicion of abuse; the second phase is a failure to report - or attempt to hide – the incident by persons of authority and responsibility. The abuse is more egregious on the criminal scale, but on the scale of moral responsibility, the failure to report the events to law enforcement or social services is as disturbing and even more bewildering.