Sandusky Scandal: Mike McQueary, Penn State Receivers Coach, Reported Sexual Abuse To Joe Paterno

Current Penn State wide receivers coach Mike McQueary is an eye-witness in the grotesque Penn State scandal in which former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky has been accused of sexually assaulting eight boys over 15 years.

According to the police report, a graduate assistant saw Sandusky sexually assault a boy in the locker room shower of a Penn State facility in 2002. PennLive.com reported that the then-28-year-old assistant was McQueary, who played for the Nittany Lions from 1994 to 1997.

McQueary was said to have told head football coach Joe Paterno of the incident the following morning. The head coach then told athletic director Tim Curley and university vice president Gary Schultz. Attorney General Linda Kelly said on Saturday that despite McQueary's account, the shower incident was not reported to police.

McQueary testified that after entering the locker room to put away some recruiting tapes, he went to the shower to investigate a noise and saw Sandusky performing a sex act with a boy about 10 years old.

Curley and Schultz, who stepped down late Sunday night, denied that they heard from McQueary and now face perjury charges from the grand jury investigation.

As the starting quarterback in 1997, McQueary lead Penn State to a 9-3 record and the Florida Citrus Bowl. After spending 2002 as a graduate assistant, McQueary was bumped up to an administrative assistant with the football program. He has since ascended to the role of wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator.

Comments

[ajobil]

06:44 AM on 11/15/2011

Whatever else you can say about McQueary's football coaching skills, he is certainly not much of a man. I'll admit right off, i'm a coward. If it were someone committing a robbery with a gun, i would definitely not intervene. But Mike, be real, even i would have yelled for Sandusky to stop and threatened to call the police. That's the least any REAL man would have done.

[Jackie2000]

07:07 PM on 11/11/2011

Aside from the obvious - you know what else is very telling and weird about this whole thing?

Look at all the people involved and who they called and who they had meetings with and what they told the grand jury.

notice any name missing?
SANDUSKY!!

Nowhere does it say any of them - - not McQueary/coward - not Paterno - not Shultz - not Curley - not Spanier -- NONE of them say they EVER talked to the perpetrator!!!!!!

How odd that Sandusky wasn't hauled in there to a meeting to be confronted by these allegations.

That shows you something right there -- MAJOR COVER-UP!!!!!!

[SDixon]

12:50 PM on 11/11/2011

Mike McQueary should be changed with failure to provide aid or something. We need to implement laws/legislation to that make it illegal not to report such crimes not just against children this is a crime against humanity and call it the Mike McQueary Law/Legislation. I believe he was more concerned with his future then the well being of the children involved and any other future potential victims. So we should make be gracious enough to give to him what he deserves and make his name great. I'm heart broken!

[Tiffany Munger]

10:59 AM on 11/11/2011

I can't help but just cry for that child. Imagine - being 10 years old, and violated by an adult you thought you could TRUST. Then to have someone come in, someone who you would think could rescue you from this situation...and he walks away, leaving you there to continue to be violated. I just want to hug that child (a grown man now), and just let him weep on my shoulder.

McQueary should be ashamed. He wasn't a "young 20-something." He was 28. Old enough to know not to call his Daddy. Old enough to know that this isn't right. And big enough to beat the living daylights out of Sandusky for violating a child like that. I wouldn't convict him of any kind of assault if he had done that. The entire coaching staff needs to go - there is NO WAY that they didn't know what was going on.

[Assumed Name]

07:37 AM on 11/11/2011

McQueary: The man who saw a child being raped and did nothing to stop it.

[marta76]

07:18 AM on 11/11/2011

Joe Paterno always prided himself on the "Penn State" way of raising young men. Not only was this guy a player, he was being groomed to become a coach. If this is the moral integrity of Penn State men, then God help us all.

[capt hastings]

03:29 PM on 11/11/2011

Excellent points - McQueary was schooled by Paterno, reported to Paterno and neither of them did a thing when they saw no action taken by the "higher ups."

[Drills Etc]

06:30 AM on 11/11/2011

You walk away from a child being raped and still have a job. How does this guy live with himself.

[260Parkway]

03:45 AM on 11/11/2011

He most definitely should be fired!!!!

[DarkTruths]

01:05 PM on 11/12/2011

I vote to add "arrested" to that.

[opprobrious]

01:58 AM on 11/11/2011

Why does this guy still have a job? Wasn't he the actual witness? What did he do? Intercede? Call the Police? Nope. He did what Paterno did, 24 hours later.

[Mhhamaker]

11:43 PM on 11/10/2011

A poem by John Donne For Whom The Bell Tolls tells it all.
Today it tolled for Joe Paterno and many football fans felt the effects.
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee..

[Martha Riddle]

11:24 PM on 11/10/2011

I just watched an interview with Doug Flutie. He said he would like to think that he'd gone into that shower, made sure the child was safe, then would have done some things that would probably have landed him into trouble.
We don't know what we would have done in such a situation, but I would hope I would respond as Doug Flutie thought he would. And I'm 5'7" and 135 lbs.

[EvieEve]

09:15 PM on 11/10/2011

This should have been the first guy to get fired. No only did he witness it, he walked away and allowed the little boy to continue to get molested.

[X-JerseyGuy]

11:34 PM on 11/10/2011

He needs to be in jail for not stopping and getting the kid out of there.

[VA Jill]

08:17 PM on 11/10/2011

Yeah, right, and he called his daddy instead of 911, and waited until the next day to tell Paterno. Why does he still even have a job there? FIRE HIM NOW!

[Aintlate]

02:36 PM on 11/10/2011

This institution cannot be serious about trotting this guy onto the field on Saturday! They should make him "run the gauntlet"! Shame on Mike MCQueary! How does someone sleep at night? For thirteen years? With that memory? Shameless! Despicable!

[Martha Riddle]

11:40 PM on 11/10/2011

I just heard they were not going to let him coach...for McQueary's safety. Apparently he has received threats. Good to know Penn State will stand strong in protecting their coaches from harm.

[josh2082]

02:18 PM on 11/10/2011

Who calls their Dad first? I get respect, I get the whole mentor/mentee thing...but if I walked in on an adult committing the kind of act on a child he saw this adult doing...

I attack that adult with every bit of power I have, incapacitate him and call the police directly after!
Get the kid away- to just walk away makes this man as guilty as Sandusky for this....