Just note. His wife, Sue Paterno (from the WashPo interview article): “I had no clue,” she said. “I thought doctors looked for child abuse in a hospital, in a bruise or something.”
I’m not buying the “I didn’t know it existed” defense. Big towns, small towns, cities, country... it has existed and always existed. It is more “out in the open” and discussed nowadays but my own parents knew such horrible things happened. They were both raised in a very small town and it was known in those days.