Here is what happened in 2002.
McQueary tells Paterno he saw Sandusky with a boy in the showers having sex.
Paterno has McQueary tell Curley and Schultz, who tell Spanier.
Spanier gets Sandusky in and asks him if the sex with the boy was consensual. Sandusky says “yes” and the matter is closed.
Spanier tolerates radical homosexuality, including the concept that minors can give consent.
“Spanier tolerates radical homosexuality, including the concept that minors can give consent.”
From Wikipedia:
“Spanier graduated from Highland Park High School (Highland Park, Illinois), and earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Iowa State University where he was honored with the Distinguished Achievement Citation by the ISU Alumni Association in 2004.[2] He earned his Ph.D.. in sociology from Northwestern University where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. While a researcher, he contributed to the publication of ten books and over 100 scholarly journal articles. As a family sociologist, demographer, and marriage and family therapist, he was the founding editor of the Journal of Family Issues.[3] Spanier was also an author of a study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior concerning the practice of mate swapping, or “swinging”.[4]”
I assume you are speculating, or is there a source for this?
She has said that Paterno is not a target.