He didn't let Sandusky go unpunished. He ended his career as a coach. The District Attorney, OTOH, did let him go unpunished. You know the 1998 matter was reported to and investigated by police, right?
Sandusky, btw, retained his office and access to university facilities as a retired professor, not a coach.
Football coaches don't get a say in the retirement agreements of faculty members.
One phone call from Paterno would have got Sandusky banned from the whole campus for life, and probably from all of State College borough. Instead, he was recruiting high schoolers for Paterno within the last few weeks.
“Football coaches don’t get a say in the retirement agreements of faculty members.”
Joe Pa, as you PSU fans creepily call him, was no ordinary football coach and you know it.