The following is a timeline of important dates in the Jerry Sandusky sex crime case, as well as key dates in Penn State football coach Joe Paterno's career. (Please note that many of the details in this timeline are graphic in nature and come directly from the grand jury report released by the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office.)

1950

• Joe Paterno becomes assistant coach at Penn State University.

1963

• Jerry Sandusky becomes a member of the Penn State football team. Joe Paterno is his coach.

1966

• Joe Paterno is named Penn State University's 14th football coach on February 19.
• Jerry Sandusky serves as a graduate assistant under Joe Paterno.

1969

• Jerry Sandusky begins his career as a defensive line coach at Penn State University.

1977

• Jerry Sandusky founds The Second Mile, a group foster home for boys. It grew into a charity dedicated to helping children with absent or dysfunctional families.

1994

• Victim 7 meets Jerry Sandusky at around age 10.

1994-95

• Victim 6 meets Jerry Sandusky at around age 7 or 8. He is now 24-years-old.

1995-96

• Victim 5 meets Jerry Sandusky at around age 7 or 8.

1996-97

• Victim 4 meets Jerry Sandusky at around age 12 or 13. He is now 27-years-old. He would frequently stay overnight at Toftrees prior to home-games. Sandusky inserted his penis into the victim's mouth on several occasions and also attempted to penetrate the victim's anus.
• Victim 10 meets Sandusky in 1997 at the age of 10. According to the grand jury, "wrestling" sessions in the basement of Sandusky’s home eventually escalated to incidents where Sandusky performed oral sex on the boy. Victim 10 also detailed incidents which occurred at a swimming pool on the Penn State Campus, along with an encounter in a car when Sandusky allegedly exposed himself and requested oral sex from the boy.

1996-98

• Victim 5 is taken to the locker rooms at Penn State by Jerry Sandusky when he is between 8 and 10 years old. Sandusky pinned the victim against the wall in the shower and placed his penis in the victim's hand. He is now 22-years-old.

1998

• Victim 4 is listed, along with Sandusky's wife, as a member of Sandusky's family party for the 1998 Outback Bowl.

1998

• Victim 6 is taken into the locker rooms and showers when he is 11 years old. When Victim 6 was dropped off at home, his hair was wet and his mother immediately questioned him about this and was upset to learn the boy had showered with Sandusky. She reported the incident to University Police who investigated. After an investigation by University Police Detective Ronald Shreffler, the investigation was closed after then-Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar decided there would be no criminal charges.

1999

• Sandusky retires from Penn State but still holds emeritus status.
• Victim 4 is listed, along with Sandusky's wife, as a member of Sandusky's family party for the 1999 Alamo Bowl.

2000

• Victim 3 meets Jerry Sandusky when he is between seventh and eighth grade.Sandusky initiated physical contact with Victim 3 while in the shower on several occasions. The boy would also spend the night at Sandusky's residence and sleep in the basement. Sandusky would come inot the room and give the boy shoulder rubs and tickle him. On two occasions, he touched the victim's genitals through his shorts.
• A janitor named James Calhoun observes Sandusky in the showers of the Lasch Football Building with Victim 8 pinned up against the wall, performing oral sex on the boy. He immediately made known to other janitorial staff what he had witnessed. Calhoun tells other employees what he saw, including his coworker Ronald Petrosky and his immediate supervisor Jay Witherite. Witherite tells him to whom he should report the incident. Calhoun was a temporary employee and never makes a report. Victim 8's identity is unknown.

2001

• Jerry Sandusly’s autobiography "Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story" is published.
• Joe Paterno became the winningest coach in NCAA Division I-A history after a 29-27 victory over Ohio State on October 7.

2002

• A Penn State graduate assistant enters the locker room at the Lasch Football Building. In the showers, he sees a naked boy, known as Victim 2, whose age he estimates to be 10 years old, being subjected to anal intercourse by a naked Sandusky. The next morning, the graduate assistant telephones Coach Joe Paterno and went to Paterno's home, where he reported what he has seen. Paterno calls Tim Curley, Penn State Athletic Director, to his home the next day and reports that the graduate assistant had seen Jerry Sandusky fondling or doing something of a sexual nature to a young boy. Approximately two and a half weeks later, the graduate assistant was called to a meeting with Curley and Senior Vice President for Finance and Business Gary Schultz. The graduate assistant reported what he has seen, and Curley and Schultz said they will look into it. A couple of weeks later, the graduate assistant hears from Curley. He is told that Sandusky's locker room keys are taken away and that the incident has been reported to The Second Mile. The graduate assistant is never questioned by university police and no other entity conducted an investigation until he assistant testified in Grand Jury in December 2010.

2004

• Victim 9 meets Sandusky at around age 11 or 12. During overnight stays at Sandusky’s home, behavior such as hugging, rubbing, cuddling and tickling – initially viewed as acts of affection – escalated to sexual assaults. Additional sex acts were allegedly performed in the swimming pool and Jacuzzi of a hotel in the State College area, at times when the pool area was not occupied.

2005-2006

• Victim 1 meets Sandusky at around age 11 or 12.

2007

• During the 2007 track season, Sandusky begins spending time with Victim 1 weekly, having him stay overnight at his residence in State College, Pennsylvania. 2009 An investigation by the Pennsylvania attorney general begins when a Clinton County, Pa. teen boy tells authorities that Sandusky has inappropriately touched him several times over a four-year period.

2010

• Sandusky retires from day-to-day involvement with The Second Mile, saying he wants to spend more time with family and handle personal matters.
• Joe Paterno won his 400th game as Penn State's coach on November 6.

2011

• November 5 - Jerry Sandusky is arrested and released on $100,000 bail after being arraigned on 40 criminal counts.
• November 6 - Curley and Schultz, who have stepped down from their positions, surrender on charges that they failed to alert police to complaints against Sandusky.
• November 7 - Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly says Paterno is not a target of the investigation into how the school handled the accusations. But she refuses to say the same for university President Graham Spanier.
• November 8 - A possible ninth victim contacts state police.
• November 8  - Penn State abruptly cancels Joe Paterno's regular weekly press conference.
• November 9 - Joe Paterno announces he'll retire at the end of the season.
• November 9 - A federal investigation is launched into Penn State's handling of allegations against Jerry Sandusky.
• November 9 - Penn State Board of Trustees fires Joe Paterno, effective immediately.
• November 9 - Penn State University President Graham Spanier steps down.
• November 11 - Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary placed on administrative leave.
• November 11 - Penn State University Board of Trustees names Merck & Co. Chief Executive Officer Ken Frazier to lead the committee investigating the child sex-abuse scandal.
• November 12 - First Penn State football game in 46 years without Joe Paterno at the helm. Nittany Lions lose, 17-13, to Nebraska
• November 14 - Bob Costas' interviews Jerry Sandusky on NBC's "Rock Center". Sandusky proclaims his innocence.
• November 14 - According to NBC, Mike McQueary reportedly emails friends his side of story, defending his actions the night he allegedly saw Sandusky sodomizing a young boy in the shower.
• November 16 - David M. Joyner named acting athletic director.
• November 18 - Scott Paterno announces that former Penn State coach Joe Paterno has a treatable form of lung cancer.
• November 22 - All the Common Pleas Court judges from Centre County, where Sandusky will be tried, recuse themselves. Senior Judge John M. Cleland, from McKean County, will now hear the prosecutors’ case.
• December 7 - Attorney General Kelly announces additional child sex charges against Jerry Sandusky. He is charged with four counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and two counts of unlawful contact with a minor, all first-degree felonies. Additionally, he is charged with one count of indecent assault and two counts of endangering the welfare of children, all third-degree felonies. Sandusky is also charged with one count of indecent assault and two counts of corruption of minors, all first-degree misdemeanors. View the new criminal complaint for Gerald Sandusky here. View the new grand jury presentment for Gerald Sandusky here.
• December 8 - The wife of ex-Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky says her husband is innocent of the child sex abuse allegations against him and that his accusers are making up their stories.
• December 8 - Ex-Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky posts $250,000 bail after spending a night in jail following new child sex abuse charges filed against him.
• December 11 - Joe Paterno fractures his pelvis after a fall at his home. He will not need surgery.
• December 13 - Jerry Sandusky waives his preliminary hearing. The case will now proceed to the Court of Common Pleas.
• December 16 - Athletic director Tim Curley and former vice president for business and finance Gary Schultz have preliminary hearing. Read a transcript of the hearing here.

2012

• January 6 - Sandusky waives his criminal arraignment, which had been scheduled for January 11. Both Sandusky and his attorneys will not appear at the proceeding.
• January 18 - New York Times: Penn State's trustees recount painful decision to fire Paterno
• January 20 - Penn State board of trustees elects new chairwoman Karen Peetz and vice chairman Keith Masser
• January 22 - Joe Paterno passes away at age 85 of lung cancer.
• January 24 - President Judge Todd A. Hoover has been appointed to handle all matters related to cases of Commonwealth v. Timothy Curley and Commonwealth v. Gary Schultz
• February 27 - Jerry Sandusky's lawyer motions for extension of time and motions for continuance