Paterno's first "report" was in 2002 (after Sandusky didn't coach there anymore, but was still showering with kids at PSU facilities - wtf) and it was to the PSU AD not the police, so no he didn't do his mandatory reporting. Victims are now saying that he knew (they confronted him) about this in the 1970s. I literally can't believe you're making the case that Joe Pa is getting the short end of the stick.
A graduate assistant reports seeing Sandusky sexually assaulting a boy in the showers at Lasch Football Building on the Penn State campus, around 9:30 p.m. on Friday, March 1. The assault on the boy, who Kelly said "appeared to be about 10 years old," is reported to Paterno the next day. Paterno, in turn, passes the information to Curley one day later.
The graduate assistant, who has since been identified as current Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary, meets with Curley and Schultz, but not Paterno, some 10 days later. According to McQueary, he told them that he had seen Sandusky having sex with a boy in the showers. No report is made to police or to any child protection agency — a breach of state law, prosecutors say.
Two weeks later, Curley tells McQueary that Sandusky's keys to the locker room have been taken away and that the incident was reported to The Second Mile charity.
Sandusky is banned from bringing children onto the Penn State campus in a decision reviewed and approved by Spanier, the university president.