A bigger question is why didn't he report to police. As to why he reported it to Paterno it appears to be because his father told him to.
And, yes, Sandusky was not part of the football program. He was a emeritus professor with a right to access the training facilities.
2) I don’t think Paterno needed to be “told” anything. It is clear he had a very good idea that this was much more than “horseplay”, and of a serial nature.
I'm inclined to think he thought Sandusky was doing something he shouldn't be doing but that the authorities tasked with determining such things found that it didn't reach the level of being destructively traumatic and had it under control. I really don't think Paterno believed that Sandusky had raped a 10-year-old.
So he didn't believe his grad assistant accusations? I goes beyond reality that he would then turn around and hire McQueary after McQueary made false accusations against his coach and PSU icon.
You are correct. Fifty year-old guys fondling ten year olds in Joe's showers is not that big of a deal. After all, was the boy crying or did the boy get off during the fondling.
Well the facts will eventually come out, but the evidence is pointing strongly toward enormous culpability on Paterno’s part.
That’s REAL world.
In the legal world, deployment of lawyerly techniques such as your obfuscations, shadings, misdirections and subtleties may actually save his rear-end.