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   >>> now to the sex abuse scandal at penn state . jerry sandusky , the school's former acities tanlt football coach is facing trial. nbc news has obtained exclusive new details showing details about sandusky more than a decade ago. nike aae aae aal michael isikoff reports.

   >> this was behavior consistent with a male predator, a pedophile.

   >> reporter: psychologist lisa chambers warned penn state police 134 years ago that his behavior fit a likely pedophile's pattern. nbc news has obtained the 1978 internal police files investigating sandusky for showering naked and bear hugging a boy in the camp locker room. the boy was chambers' client, who she interviewed the day after tins accident. he's now known as victim 6, one of ten allegedly abused by sandusky .

   >> i wish you could see the precious little fis and the tiny little boy that appeared before me.

   >> reporter: speaking for the first time with the family's permission, chambers releases new details.

   >> after they finished lifting waktds and they were sitting, was told that mr. sandusky kissed him on the head and said i love you.

   >> reporter: chambers wrote a report for the police , highlight highlighting graphics.

   >> i warned them of the typical grooming behavior.

   >> reporter: but a second psychologist brought in by police never read chambers' report, found there was no evidence, a finding that sandusky 's lawyer hopes to use in his defense. that's why the psychologist told police he even about never heard of a 52-year-old man becoming a ped fight. the police hid in a bedroom. mom, did your private parts touch when you bear hummed him. sandusky , i don't think so. maybe. momming have you ton dun this with other boys. sandusky , yes. moments later rmgts i would i could be dead.

   >> we shows it to walter cohen, a former attorney general. he said cowan should have been placed on a list of suspected child abuse .

   >> jerry sandusky should have been put on a watch list , but instead the case was closed.

   >> the police files went unheated. chambers said she was stunned last year when police contacted her when prosecutors charged san doesky with more than 50 counts of sex abuse .

   >> i was horrified to know that there were so many other enoh sent bows who had been subject to this, who have had their hearts and minds confused, their bodies violated. it's unspeakable.

   >> reporter: for today, michael isikoff , nbc

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