"The most saddening finding by the Special Investigative counsel is the total and consistent disregard by the most senior leaders at Penn State for the safety and welfare of Sandusky's child victims," Freeh wrote in his report.
"There was no 'attempt to investigate, to identify Victim 2, or to protect that child or any others from similar conduct except as related to preventing its re-occurrence on university property,'" Freeh wrote, quoting an earlier grand jury report.
In June, a jury found former assistant football coach
Sandusky guilty
of 45 out of 48 charges of child sex abuse. The
university appointed Freeh
as a special investigator in November 2011 to review the case.
Penn State's top administrators "failed to protect against a child sexual predator harming children for over a decade," the report claims. "These men concealed Sandusky's activities from the Board of Trustees, the university community and authorities. They exhibited a striking lack of empathy for Sandusky's victims by failing to inquire as to their safety and well-being, especially by not attempting to determine the identity of the child who Sandusky assaulted in the Lasch Building in 2001."
The report also criticized school leaders for failing to notify authorities, after assistant football coach Mike McQueary reported seeing Sandusky with a victim in the locker room shower on Feb. 9, 2001. "They exposed this child to additional harm by alerting Sandusky, who was the only one who knew the child's identity," according to the report.