(Reuters) ? Joe Paterno, the iconic head of Penn State University's football program for 46 years fired after former assistant Jerry Sandusky was charged with child sex abuse, says he was unsure of how to handle the first report about Sandusky that reached him in 2002.
"I didn't know exactly how to handle it and I was afraid to do something that might jeopardize what the university procedure was," Paterno told the Washington Post.
"So I backed away and turned it over to some other people, people I thought would have a little more expertise than I did. It didn't work out that way."
Paterno made his comments in an interview with Washington Post sports columnist Sally Jenkins published on the paper's website on Saturday afternoon. They were his first extensive public statements since being dismissed by the university in November.
Paterno, 85, was admitted to a hospital in State College on Friday because of complications from cancer treatments. Jenkins interviewed Paterno at his home this week.
(Reporting By Dan Burns; editing by Ian Simpson)
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