Why are people too scared to play their human card?

     On the heels of the Penn State/Jerry Sandusky, child abuse scandal, another shocking story broke last week....about an assistant basketball coach at the university of Syracuse, and a couple of children who were ball boys for the basketball team.  The main difference in the two stories, is that there isn't an eye witness testimony, as far as the assistant basketball coach, who's name is Bernie Fine, and the two children he has allegedly assaulted.  There isn't that person, who has witnessed the transgression, the horrible act, with their own eyes.  For the better part of last week, and the beginning part of this week, it was a, he said-she said case.  Or rather, a he said-he said case.  I'm not going to get into whether or not I think Bernie Fine is guilty of these allegations.  The accuser, Bobby Davis, is accusing Fine sexually assaulted him from the age of 13, up until he was 27 years old.  I don't know we'll ever know the truth about what happened between, Fine and Davis.  Other reports, have surfaced recently, that have linked Davis, sexually with Fine's wife.  It appears as though, there was some sort of sordid love triangle between the three.  There are also reports, that Fine had loaned Davis over 5,000 dollars and was attempting to collect on that debt, and that's what spurred these allegations. 

     I'm not a detective.  I don't play one on tv.  I will let the authorities sort out all the details, and trust in them to arrest all guilty parties.  The one thing that is somewhat similar in this case, and the Sandusky scandal at Penn State....is that there, once again, seems to be a let down in the moral code.  A lack of humanism if you will.  Apparently Davis, recorded a phone call between he, and Fine's wife.  The dialogue coming from Fine's wife, would have you believe that she in fact, knew of the assaults, and had suspected for quite some time, that her husband was a child molester.  Davis, then took copies of the recording and mailed them to ESPN, and to the Syracuse newspaper, the Post-Standard.  From there, there was no action taken by either party.  Now, so far, there have been no new accounts of Fine violating any more children after the telephone conversation recording between Davis, and Fine's wife.  That being said, why on earth didn't ESPN, or the Post-Standard turn in this recording to the authorities!?  If someone gave you a tape of a conversation, and one of the two parties involved in the conversation stated that they were going to kill someone, wouldn't you tell somebody, so that they could stop it?  ESPN is bigger than any, and I mean ANY media outlet, they are owned by Disney, who has built their empire, to pretty much entertain children and their families.  Who are they scared of?  Why were they trying to protect Fine, and Syracuse? 

     It basically comes down to the fact that people these days, are scared to do what they know, down in their heart of hearts is the right thing to do.  People would rather turn a blind eye, and pretend they didn't see anything, than risk personal harm, or any other damage....to help someone else.  When asked why they didn't turn in the tape to the authorities, Vince Doria, who is the head of ESPN news, stated on Sirius XM's Mad Dog Radio sports channel, that he doesn't think it's ESPN's role to play detective and turn in evidence to the police.  He stated that as journalists, it isn't their job to turn over any evidence that happens to come their way.  Well Vince, what if it had been your child?  What if it had been your child that had been assaulted, and it could have been prevented, had someone done what was the morally right thing to do, and that's turn over everything they had, to stop a predator!  Be a human being!