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Agreed.
There are a lot of people with a lot of bravado about what they would do if they were in that situation. Most of them would crumble like the grad assistant and the janitor. I was in that situation, followed the company policy, reported that I was contacted by the accused and the incident was properly handled. I was told by the boss that I had followed the policy perfectly and as a result, the accused’s lawyers folded their cards. I was also told that if I hadn’t followed policy, I and anyone else who tried to wing it would be dismissed. Multimillion corporations with multimillion lawyers who have expensive risk policies and strategies that they teach every year to their employees don’t look kindly on wildcatters.

"I was also told that if I hadn’t followed policy, I and anyone else who tried to wing it would be dismissed."

Okay, that might be a good excuse for the janitor who witnessed Sandusky sodomizing a boy. However, do you really think that Joepa was in danger of being fired for not following policy? Seriously? He makes the policy!!!!

"Paterno called Tim Curley ("Curley"), Penn State Athletic Director and Paterno's immediate superior, to his home the very next day, a Sunday, and reported to him that the graduate assistant had seen Jerry Sandusky in the Lasch Building showers fondling or doing something of a sexual nature to a young boy."

So by Joepa's very own testimony, he was told in the 2002 incident that Sandusky was in the showers with a young boy doing something sexual. Do you really think that Joepa did everything in his power to stop his former assistant? Let me ask you something, if McQuarry had told Joepa that Sandusky was in the shower doing something of a sexual nature not to a young boy, but to one of Joepa's grandchildren, do you think Joepa would have just reported it up the chain and left it at that? No, Joepa would have went to the police and got an investigation started. He would have had Sandusky banned from the campus. Which is what Joepa should have done in this situation. If McQuarry would not have went with him to the police, then he should have told the police what McQuarry told him and the police would have interviewed McQuarry. This is Joe Paterno. He's a god in Happy Valley!! He could have made things happen.