The 98 allegations Sandusky did work for PSU. Even in 2001, people can argue that he did not work for PSU, that is true, problem is he had an office on the PSU campus, had a PSU email address, full use of the PSU facilities...he may not have been getting a pay check from PSU, but he was treated as an employee.
He was cleared by professionals in 1998 for an incident that occurred at a local high school with a non-PSU student. Not sure why you brought that up.
Employee (noun) - a person employed for wages or salary, especially at non-executive level.
I don't argue over the nitty gritty details or the nuances of Sandusky's role at PSU, I just point out to people that bash PSU that ultimately everyone who could have stopped it was fired, some what to jail, PSU paid over a hundred million dollars to victims, accepted full responsibility, what more do people want.
The state trained professionals at DPW/CYS/TSM that cleared him in 1998 and to adopt many times, Mike M., his dad, Dranov, (anyone else he told)... all could have stopped it before PSU was ever involved. None of them were fired, fined or went to Jail. In fact Mike made millions of dollars off the situation. Let's also not forget that TSM was involved when PSU made a report to them in 2001.
When exactly did PSU accept responsibility, and what specifically did they admit responsibility for? I certainly hope you are not interpreting Curley and Schultz accepting a plea deal where they were promised no jail time as PSU accepting responsibility.