The facts cited by Freeh are familiar by now. Several people had a chance to stop Sandusky. But a failure of personal courage combined with an institutional coverup enabled a child molester to stalk, groom and assault his victims. Sandusky's access to the campus and its locker rooms gave a pedophile the "very currency that enabled him to attract his victims," the report found.
Freeh's report identifies the enablers: Paterno, president Graham Spanier, vice president Gary Schultz and athletic director Tim Curley. And it strips away any excuses.
Could they really be expected to believe that a close friend and associate could do something so heinous? Well, yes, because each of them was alerted not once but twice.