HARRISBURG, Pa. — A judge in Philadelphia said that insurers in litigation with Penn State asserted that in 1976, a boy told Joe Paterno, the university’s football coach at the time, that he had been molested by Jerry Sandusky, the website PennLive reported Thursday.

An order by the judge, Gary Glazer, also cited reports by unidentified assistant coaches that they had witnessed inappropriate contact between Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant, and children, PennLive said.

Glazer wrote in a decision on insurance coverage for Sandusky-related claims that there was “no evidence that reports of these incidents ever went further up the chain of command at PSU.”

Sandusky is serving 30 to 60 years in state prison on a 45-count conviction on child sexual abuse charges for instances, going back to back to the 1990s, involving 10 boys.