Joe Paterno knew. And he did nothing. The report even stated that Paterno and crew contacted Sandusky to tell him about the allegations from Mike McQuerry. Paterno never even bothered to find out about the child, whether he was alive or not. His first act was to contact Sandusky, a man who Paterno knew was accused two years early of doing the same thing. No what I think, I think Sandusky killed that child he molested in the shower shortly after being tipped off by Paterno.
That’s the other disturbing thing to consider, if indeed there was a “pedophile ring”, those don’t exist over a long period of time, without some bodies being buried somewhere.