Cops: Sandusky apologized to boy's mom in 1998

Former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky had a history of complaints at Penn State University, and CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports that some people now say the complaints were missed opportunities.

The first major miss was in 1998, says Keteyian, when the mother of an 11-year-old boy told police her son said he had showered in the football locker room with Sandusky. According to the grand jury report, with police listening in, Sandusky apologized to the mother, telling her, "I wish I were dead."

University police investigated, but no charges were ever filed.

"The showers in the locker room of the Penn State football team, Sandusky apparently had unrestricted access to as part of his retirement agreement," Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly tells CBS News.

Then in 2000, a university janitor told a superior he had seen Sandusky performing oral sex on a young boy - again in the shower. Fearing for their jobs, both men keep their silence.

Finally, in 2002, an alleged shower room rape of a young boy by Sandusky is witnessed by graduate assistant coach Mike McQueary. He has now told a grand jury he witnessed "anal intercourse".

But at the time, the message he allegedly delivered to head coach Joe Paterno was that he saw simply, "horsing around." It was that muted message which apparently also made it to the ears of other university officials, and all the way up to university president Graham Spanier.

Once again, no formal police investigation was conducted.