That's not surprising given all the "reporting" that is going on.
Everything I have read says the grad asst went to Paterno's home, not his father reporting it second hand.
And most of what I've heard on ESPN has the dad telling Paterno. The SeeBS timeline someone linked to above has the dad and the GA going to Joe's house the day after the event.
Now maybe the Grand Jury report has testimony about the conversations with Joe and perhaps the GA and his father weren't pulling punches and telling Joe the straight scoop. But I'd like to know Joe's side of what exactly was told to him before I am willing to throw away everything good he's accomplished. But no one seems to be doing that heavy lifting and that is sad too.
The graduate assistant went to his office and called his
father, reporting to him what he
had seen. His father told the graduate assistant to leave the building and come to his home. The graduate assistant and his father decided that the graduate assistant had to report what
he had seen to Coach Joe Paterno ("Paterno"), head football coach of Penn State.
The next morning, a Saturday, the graduate assistant telephoned Paterno and went to Paterno's home, where he reported what he had seen. Joseph V. Paterno testified to receiving the graduate assistant's report at his home on a Saturday morning. Paterno testified that the graduate assistant was very upset. 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.
From page 7 of the grand jury report.