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most states have laws where you must report any threat of child abuse to the police or child services if not you will be charged with a crime if you do not. I don’t know about PA.

That obligation in many states can usually be satisfied with an anonymous call to the CPS authorities. They do record date and time as well as nature and specifics you give them. I would consider this the safest way thus protecting self and family. The CPS or whoever screen the calls and determine if they even want to go and investigate or not. A call to the authorities is not any gaurantee you will ever be taken serious.

Some Freepers have the notion that if you learn of abuse the Perp is automatically charged, locked up, and that's the end of it. That is not how it works. One consideration is the victim. Can the victim withstand giving testimony not once but many times as in appeal after appeal? Will the victim be too scared or intimidated? Will the victim be accurate each time. Then GOD help the witnesses who do come forward trying too help put a perp away because those persons lives are also fixing to be made hell by the defense.

You do not go into a court room and tell what you know or even what you want too say. Nor for that matter will you be allowed too tell the whole truth. You go on the stand and you will be allowed too tell only very narrow portions of what you know and are allowed too tell. While doing so the defense lawyer will try too twist what you say, make you look like a fool, liar, doing perjury, or say you have a dislike for the perp, you name it they can do it. This treatment is the same if you are a witness, a therapist working with the victim, or a private citizen trying too help the child. You loose your temper {the whole intent of the defense questioning} and you can face going too jail yourself for contempt of court.

The responsibility in this case should have been on the A.D. and the campus security shoulders to handle and see through. That is their job. In this case was the campus police actual state LEO's as they are in some states? You can not testify in court on hearsay either. If Joe didn't see the offenses himself there is little he could have done except tell his boss.

Now for the political realities of it. You have a university of which most are liberal ran. You even have college professors in certain fields even pushing for perverted relationships between perps and innocent kids as being normal. You have clubs on campus for gay and lesbian this and that. The Athletic Department generally does not produce the ones who run the university. IOW as far as the chain of command or who was in charge Joe was low man on the Totem Pole as too the ones the AD should have notified.

Had Joe went around saying hey this creep takes showers with naked little boys {an act he did not actually see but was only told about} Joe could have been sued for slander or defamation of character. Do you think the victim would have testified? What about the witness who did see it fearing hey perp can sue me also? Keep in mind that is civil court.

The AD and campus security and legal department with the knowledge given them by the coach it should have been their place to have handled this entire issue including investigations, depositions, procicution, and in the mean time obtaining restraining orders.