The long-standing question of when former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno first learned his assistant Jerry Sandusky had sexually abused children was amplified Saturday morning by a CNN story claiming the coach may have known before whistleblower Mike McQueary told him about an incident involving Sandusky in 2001.
The story is based on a one-page Pennsylvania State Police report provided by a source. It details Mr. Paterno telling Mr. McQueary in February 2001 that Mr. McQueary’s account of witnessing a sexual incident between Sandusky and a young boy “was the second complaint of this nature he had received.