No question Joe followed the law - protocol. He was not indicted. He did not lie to the Grand Jury trying to cover up what happened and what he knew.
The question is whether he had an ethical responsibility to act to rescue the abused kids when he saw the perv continuing to operate his sex abuse scheme. He did have an ethical responsiblity to put a stop to it by reporting him to the police and telling other key people (donors) to the charity that McQueary saw Sandusky anally raping a 10 year old boy on campus.
And the guards at Auschwitz were just "following orders."
“He did have an ethical responsiblity to put a stop to it by reporting him to the police and telling other key people (donors) to the charity that McQueary saw Sandusky anally raping a 10 year old boy on campus.”
Which becomes libel or slander if the accusation turns out to be false. Telling donors and so on that somebody is, or even might be, a kiddie diddler is something you had darned well be able to prove.
The MOST he could have done would be to get McQueary to call the police, which would probably have been futile after the fact. He did take it to his superior, and it went to the person who ran campus security.