That was not his place to do that. That was McCreary's place. He was the eye witness -- not Paterno. If McCreary believed what he saw was serious then he would have called the police or atleast broken up what was going on -- but he didn't because he obviously didn't find it serious enough.
And the police that McCreary would have called would have been the police that had jurisdiction over the incident -- the Penn State University Police Department, whose head he met with anyway a few days later.
That is shameful, dishonorable and disgusting.
Paterno arranges for McCreary to tell what he saw to the Athletic Director and the 2nd in charge of the University who heads the Penn State University Police Department -- and that is "shameful, dishonorable, and disgusting" to you. What world do you live in???
The hell it wasn't. Paterno should have called the police immediately and confronted Sandusky. Paterno admitted he should have done more. The whole administration and authority figures were gutless, dishonorable and disgusting, just as are their defenders.