No, I was not aware that the the jury acquitted Sandusky of raping the boy I. The locker room. But let’s go with the fondling angle shall we?
A young and presumably upset assistant coach comes to Paterno to report that Sandusky was “fondling” a boy in the locker room shower. So what does Coach Paterno do? He tells Spanier or someone then goes to work for another decade while the boy fondler continues to have access to the facilities.
Again.
That seems legit.
I can just imagine Coach Paterno strolling down the hallway outside the locker room and the fondler, Paterno’s “retired” colleague Jerry Sandusky, approaching from the other direction:
Sandusky: (nods head)
Paterno: Hey. What’s up?
He was told after this 2001 incident not to bring anymore kids to the facilities, and his charity was told as well.
As a matter of fact in the Freeh Report there is a Paterno note in Exhibit 2G regarding Sandusky's use of training and workout facilities in his retirement that reads: for personal use okay, but for 2nd Mile kids -- No, liability issue.