No, you don’t tell campus security and then wash your hands of it. You tell the real police and report a crime.
The accused was also a foster parent it is the job of CPS or whoever to investigate foster parents regularly. Not Joe's. Lot's of people over Joe's head at Penn State knew it seems. Campus Police knew more than Joe because Joe would not be Privy to their own and the CPS investigation info. Why? Because crime was against a child and privacy laws apply.
If you saw a kid being abused and you reported it do you believe they would investigate? They might or they might not but YOU won't know. If Joe, the janitor, or Binky The Clown had called the Children's Protect Services known as Dept of welfare they might or they might not take anyone serious. You call and ask outcome? You will not be told. It wasn't just Joe who wasn't told but also Second Mile. The system that is supposed too protect abused kids as far as abuse goes stink in most states.
I'll tell you one better and it is the truth. If it is your blood relative abused and you are not the parent you will be told Zilch by these by most such agencies about the investigation and likely the findings.
BTW after agencies who are supposed to investigate abuses against kids botch a case they go looking for scapegoats. It sure won’t be them. I know that for a fact.
Campus security is the real police there.
It’s an arrangement that’s bound to be abused, but that’s the way it is.
For clarification purposes, he reported it to a person who oversees the campus police, not the campus police itself.