Spanier, the former Penn State president, will serve the least amount of jail time of the three.
They also say that, to this day, the identity of the boy seen in the shower with Sandusky "is still in question" in part because Spanier and the other two men ex-athletic director Tim Curley and ex-vice president Gary Schultz did not alert authorities.
Spanier had been convicted in a March jury trial of misdemeanor child endangerment for brushing a 2001 allegation about Sandusky's abuse under the rug. He will serve two months in jail, followed by house arrest and also pay a $5,000 fine, according to Grace.
In sentencing memos, prosecutors accused Curley in particular of "astonishing" and unbelievable memory lapses on the witness stand.
Three former Penn State University officials were sentenced to serve time in prison Friday for their roles in the Jerry Sandusky sex assault case.
All three men apologized before Judge John Boccabella sentenced them. But "why no one made a phone call to police ... is beyond me".
All three were convicted of child endangerment. Curley received a sentence of 7 to 23 months, and Schultz was sentenced to 6 to 23 months. Former vice president Gary Schultz, 67, was given six to 23 months, with two months behind bars.
Prosecutors are seeking jail time for Spanier at Friday's hearing in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
They all apologized in the courtroom to Sandusky's victims before the sentences were handed down.
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"I deeply regret I didn't intervene more forcefully", Spanier said, expressing remorse, in reference to Sandusky's victims. He said Spanier "devoted a substantial part of his career to the welfare of children, youth, and families".
Mike McQueary, a graduate coaching assistant, told administrators that he saw Sandusky molesting a boy in a football team shower in 2001.
But Spanier came under criticism for what detractors said was his misperception of the world outside academia and his failure to understand the implications of the Sandusky scandal when it broke. He was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison.
Penn State has paid out almost a quarter-billion dollars in fines, settlements and other costs associated with the scandal, and the football program suffered heavy NCAA sanctions. More than 100 of Paterno's victories were briefly erased from the record books.
In an interview late Friday afternoon, Paterno's son, Jay, said he believed the judge's words misrepresented what actually happened.
Sandusky was not arrested until 2011, a decade later.
The judge also said others could have done more to stop or unmask Sandusky - including Paterno, who died in the weeks after Sandusky's arrest. Maybe it's just because I'm in the middle of binge-watching The Keepers, but it seems to me that these guys got off way too lightly and it makes my blood boil. "Why he didn't is beyond me". After the incident, Spanier and other Penn State officials developed a plan to bar Sandusky from bringing other children to the campus and to inform officials at Sandusky's charity for at-risk children.
"What was it about that conversation that made you change your mind?"
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