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Penn State University President Rodney Erickson, center left, speaks with other board of trustees members Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier and Chairwoman Karen Peetz, right, as they field questions from the media about the finding of the Freeh Report in Scranton Pa., Thursday, July 12, 2012. The alleged child sexual abuse cover-up by Joe Paterno, then-university President Graham Spanier and two other Penn State administrators allowed Jerry Sandusky to prey on boys for years, said the report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh, who was hired by the university's trustees to investigate. (AP Photo/The Times-Tribune, Jake Danna Stevens)

People at Penn State kept quiet to avoid hurting university’s ’brand,’ report says

PHILADELPHIA - In 2000, three janitors at the football building at Pennsylvania State University saw Jerry Sandusky engaged in activities that one said he found more upsetting than the worst combat injuries he witnessed in the Korean War.

This janitor watched Sandusky pinning a young boy inside a locker-room shower and performing oral sex on him.

At the time, none of the janitors said anything to anyone.

Bringing bad PR to coach Joe Paterno "would have been like going against the president of the United States in my eyes. . Football runs this university," one worker told investigators this month as part of the independent report on the sex-abuse scandal at the university.

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