Former Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno, along with three of the university’s top administrators, knew about abuse allegations against the football program’s longtime defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, as far back as 1998, but “repeatedly concealed critical facts” from police, the public and the university’s board as Sandusky continued to molest children, a Penn State internal investigation has found.
When Sandusky retired in 1999, the investigation’s report found, the administrators allowed him to do so “not as a suspected child predator” but rather as a “valued member of the Penn State football legacy.”
