He was 70 when Sandusky was first accused. And Paterno informed the administration at the first accusation. Sandusky ran a large children’s charity in town with Judge’s and virtually all the elite of middle Pennsylvania behind him. The authorities that were supposed to be watching Sandusky were vast and did not include the head football coach.
I understood that Paterno was an old man and perhaps not the most technically savvy person on the planet, but he was likely aware that telephones existed.
With his telephone, he should have called the police and reported that Sandusky was sodomizing ten year old boys in the shower room.