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Penn State Police Buried Investigation

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Into Sandusky child sex abuse reported in 1998.

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An internal Penn State police file has revealed that the university was warned that Jerry Sandusky molested a child in 1998, when a psychologist who spoke to Victim No. 6 said Sandusky's behavior was "consistent with a pedophile." During an investigation, Penn State police heard the boy's mother ask Sandusky if he touched the boy's private parts, to which Sandusky replied that he didn't think so, but wasn't sure. But the investigation was dropped after another psychologist said there was no evidence of sex abuse.

Read it at NBC News