It might help if you had been paying at least a vague amount of attention.
JoPa is on the board of The Second Mile. The responsibilities that come with that make him a mandatory reporter and indeed these are the responsibilities that are going to have him in hot water as this plays out. There is nobody who is over him in a chain of command as regards his position with The Second Mile, so the question itself is moot.
JoPa’s position with the university is secondary.
While I have my own speculation regarding what Paterno (and a bunch of other people) MUST have known about Sandusky, McCloskey’s story about victim No. 2 is even more convoluted.
It’s not at all clear that Paterno was a mandated reporter under Pennsylvania law based on what McCloskey (and his dad) told him. There was one story told to the grand jury, and Paterno probably has a different take on it. In any event, he had only hearsay to report. He could have called the cops and said “This guy told me that he saw a crime occuring yesterday. Here’s his number, I don’t know anything else. You should question the witness directly”.
But really, that’s about all, from an LE standpoint.
Of course, the cynical among us might paint a more conspiratorial picture. I mean, really, if McClosky saw a crime, there really is no logical explanation for his failure to either a) stop it, or b) call 911 and report it. Oh, there IS one logical explanation: he was looking for some kind of quid-pro-quo from the football program, which would then pitch Paterno and the rest of the sorry lot into a big old pot of hot water....