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McQueary: No Question Sandusky Was Abusing Child

Cites 'skin-on-skin smacking sound'

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 12, 2012 4:36 PM CDT

(Newser) – Despite questions raised over his story, Mike McQueary says he's sure: Jerry Sandusky was sexually abusing a child in the Penn State showers. The former assistant coach testified today in the case that he heard a "skin-on-skin smacking sound" and spotted Sandusky "standing behind a boy who was propped up against a wall." "To me there's no way in that position his genitals weren't against his rear," he said. "They were extremely, extremely close." Did he have any doubt about what he saw? "No doubt at all," McQueary said.

The assistant coach testified that he told his father and a doctor friend about the situation, without providing too much detail, the Patriot-News reports. They told him to tell Joe Paterno; when he did so, he said he was vague with the details. After a call from athletic director Tim Curley, McQueary told Curley and VP Gary Schultz about the situation. They asked no questions, he said. Curley later called back and said he had checked into the incident. McQueary's testimony was much like his story during an earlier hearing on Curley and Schultz, the AP notes.

Penn State University assistant football coach Mike McQueary arrives at the Centre County Courthouse.
Penn State University assistant football coach Mike McQueary arrives at the Centre County Courthouse.   (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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Jespersen
Jun 12, 2012 10:39 PM CDT
I still can not get my head around  all the people who knew this years ago.  Penn state faculty, foot ball officials, his wife, and no doubt many friends.  They all just looked the other way.
Twiny
Jun 12, 2012 8:26 PM CDT
I hope that chickenshit bastard McQueary can live with himself. Anybody else would have gone in there and saved that poor kid. McQueary just turned tail and slunk away like the coward he is. 
oldgoat
Jun 12, 2012 7:52 PM CDT
If there was no doubt why didn't he do anything then?  How come when he told others he was vague about what he saw?  Why didn't the ones that he told, especially his father, tell him to call the police immediately?  What a failure for a human being.
 

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