Maybe the lesson we'll take away from this is that when you base an entire region's economy on Football it destroys any incentive for the administrators of The Football to operate with any form of ethics, or, you know, prevent children from being raped.
I disagree. I think the lesson we should take away from this is that there is still a FUCKING STRONG incentive to operate with ethics and prevent children from being raped.
To wit, the rather obvious point I made pages ago, that anyone covering up child abuse because they think this will have a POSITIVE impact on their reputation is fucking delusional.
This is an object lesson. This is a signal to all the amoral shits out there who are missing the part of their brain that would make an ordinary person report child abuse simply because that is The Right Thing to Do. This is a reminder to sociopaths engaging in cost-benefit analysis that hey, guess what, you WON'T get away with it, people WILL find out, and THIS is what will happen.
Everyone has to suffer for being part of the culture that allowed this to happen.
Now, THAT interpretation is a little shoot-'em-all-and-let-God-sort-'em-out for my tastes. I don't think a guy who sets up a sports store, a sports bar, or for God's sake just a regular ol' restaurant that just happens to do good business because of its location, shoulders any blame for the specifics of the football program. I don't see them as enablers, I just see them as people doing what they can to make a living -- same as anybody else.
I agree that it's unfortunate that ordinary people's livelihoods may take a hit over this. But I also agree that it's the second-order consequence of a punishment that is absolutely justified, even necessary.