STATE COLLEGE (AP) -- Penn State's investigation into the Jerry Sandusky scandal concludes that the administrators who fielded a 2001 complaint about him created a dangerous situation for future victims by not reporting the matter.

The report released Thursday said that despite their knowledge of the police probe into Sandusky showering with a boy in a football locker room, president Graham Spanier, football coach Joe Paterno, athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz took no action to limit his access to campus.

A 267-page report is the result of an eight-month inquiry by former FBI director Louis Freeh, hired by university trustees weeks after Sandusky was arrested in November to look into what has become one of sports' biggest scandals.

The Freeh Group's report issued Thursday said that in order to avoid bad publicity, Spanier, Paterno, Curley and Schultz "repeatedly concealed critical facts relating to Sandusky's child abuse."

The report says the men "failed to protect against a child sexual predator harming children for over a decade."

The report says all four knew about a 1998 investigation into Sandusky that didn't result in criminal charges at the time, but none alerted the trustees and none took further action against Sandusky. It found that sexual abuse might have been prevented if university officials had banned him from bringing children onto campus after a 1998 inquiry.

The report says Schultz was worried the matter could be opening "Pandora's box."

Sandusky is awaiting sentencing after being convicted of 45 criminal counts. The scandal led to the ouster of Paterno and the school's president.

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