[mewzilla]

State employees have a duty to notify regarding suspected abuse. That was one issue.

[henkster]

All states have mandatory child abuse reporting laws. Most states require not just state employees, but teachers and health personnel to report. Some states say everyone. In fact, the duty to report trumps all of the usual privileges, like attorney/client and physician/patient.

Wasn't the President of the University prosecuted for failure to report?

[billslugg]

“State employees have a duty to notify regarding suspected abuse. That was one issue.” mewzilla

Correct, the law requires them to report it to their immediate superior, which Joe did. It was the head of athletics and the head of the University got fired for not reporting it to police. Joe did his job.

[MPJackal]

I believe that Joe reported the incident to campus police. But I think the administration wanted to keep it in house, so it never really went anywhere. How much of that involved Joe's complacency I do not know. Also don't know if Joe knew Sandusky was a pedophile, but since there was an ice cream store that had a flavor called the “The Sandusky Blitz”, which featured two scoops of banana flavored ice cream with the pointy end of a cone sticking up.” (so it resembled a penis and testicles) it kinda sounds like everybody knew.