According to his remarks, Freeh said the “most saddening and sobering finding is the total disregard for the safety and welfare of Sandusky’s child victims by the most senior leaders at Penn State.”

Regarding a 2001 incident where Sandusky was seen in a Lasch Football Building shower with a boy by assistant coach Mike McQueary — according to testimony — Freeh reported that “[administrators] failure to protect the February 9, 2001 child victim, or make attempts to identify him, created a dangerous situation for other unknown, unsuspecting young boys who were lured to the Penn State campus and football games by Sandusky and victimized repeatedly by him.”

Former Penn State President Graham Spanier, who, according to prior testimony, was told of the shower incident by former administrators Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, told investigators that he was not made aware that this incident was sexual in nature.

Freeh said in his remarks that he felt the most powerful leaders at Penn State were attempting to “avoid bad publicity” and concealed facts relating to Sandusky from the Board of Trustees, the authorities and the general public.

Based on the evidence, the only known intervening factor between alerting the Department of Welfare of the incident was a conversation between Curley and the late former head coach Joe Paterno.

The evidence from the investigation also shows that Spanier, Curley, Schultz and Paterno were all aware of a 1998 investigation of Sandusky and his conduct with a different boy in a shower.

“Again, they showed no concern about that victim,” Freeh said in the statement.

Freeh said in the statement that the men also failed to alert the Board of Trustees following that investigation.

He said, with regard to Spanier, Curley, Schultz and Paterno, “their callous and shocking disregard for child victims” was also reported by the grand jury in its initial presentment when there was no attempt to locate or identify the person identified as “Victim 2” following their notification of the 2001 incident.

While the report focused on the inaction of the administrators, it said the Board of Trustees is not without criticism. Freeh said in the remarks that the board failed to create an environment which held these senior administrators accountable. In fact, he said, when Curley, Schultz and Sandusky were arrested, Spanier did not give any additional information to the board that he did to the public.

Also with regard to the board, Freeh found that trustees did not have proper reporting procedures as far as things that pose major risk to the University.

He said the board was unprepared to handle crises related to charges filed in November against Curley, Schultz and Sandusky, and was unprepared when Paterno was fired.

“From 1998-2011, Penn State’s “Tone at the Top” for transparency, compliance, police reporting and child protection was completely wrong, as shown by the inaction and concealment on the part of its most senior leaders, and followed by those at the bottom of the University’s pyramid of power,” he said.

Freeh also outlined basic recommendations that are further outlined in his 267 page report.

Freeh said in his statement that his team interviewed 430 individuals — ranging from trustees to coaches to employees and administrators — and analyzed of 3.5 million emails.

Curley and Schultz were not interviewed based on recommendations from their counsel.

Freeh was hired in November by the Board of Trustees to conduct an internal investigation of Penn State following charges filed Sandusky, Curley and Schultz.

His final statement: “It is critical that Old Main, the Board and the Penn State community never forget these failures and commit themselves to strengthening an open, compliant and victim sensitive environment – where everyone has the duty to ‘blow the whistle’ on anyone who breaks this trust, no matter how powerful or prominent they may appear to be.”