Meet Mike McQueary.
He grew up just a mile from the Penn State campus, excelling on the State College High football team. In 1994 he was recruited by Penn State, where he started as quarterback in his senior year. The team went 9-3 that season, with McQueary breaking three school records.
After graduation he signed with the Oakland Raiders, and then the Scottish Claymores of the World League of American Football. When his professional career didn’t work out he returned to Penn State as a grad student and assistant to the football team.
In March 2002 he stumbled across something he wasn’t supposed to see. Jerry Sandusky, his former assistant coach, now retired, was anally raping a ten-year-old boy in the team’s showers. McQueary didn’t intervene. He didn’t go for help. He didn’t call the cops.
He called his father.
He called his father and his father told him to call his coach. So that’s what he did. And when his coach stayed silent, and the athletic director stayed silent, and the university vice president in charge of the campus police stayed silent, Mike McQueary stayed silent too.
Today Mike McQueary is a member of the Penn State coaching staff. And he’s still staying silent.
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November 10, 2011 at 1:39 pm
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November 10, 2011 at 1:59 pm
Penny Richards (@PennamitePLR)
I don’t know what I’d do in the moment of seeing such a thing–and I hope I never find out. The guy ran to safety and called someone he trusts for advice–okay, that’s panic. It’s not the best response, it’s just an impulse of self-preservation fueled by adrenaline and fear. I get that. But when you keep seeing the guy on campus, in the next days or weeks, don’t you get angry? Don’t you ask “WTF, why is he still here, after what I saw? Who else do I need to tell?” That’s where the McQueary story falls apart for me–because either he decided not to go further, or he obeyed instructions (pressure? threats?) not to go further. Either way, obviously, he was wrong.
November 10, 2011 at 2:26 pm
Bj Smith
uh, hello, a 28-year-old former football player sees a much older man RAPING a little boy and he needs to flee to safety? It’s called he made a deal with the devil to promote his own career with the Penn State organization. Any human being with an iota of decency would have STOPPED THE RAPE IN PROGRESS and called the police.
call the Penn State Board of Trustees 814-865-2521 and Penn State Public Information 814-865-7517 and demand that Mike McQueary is fired.
November 10, 2011 at 2:40 pm
likeucare
Once again, PSU is only doing what they think they are supposed to do and not what they should know is right. By choosing to retain mcquery the university is sending the message he did nothing wrong. If u see a child being raped u stop it, if you see a red light you stop,shouuld be automatic if you are not a total scumbag. If u don’t know what u would do,something is wrong with your moral compass. Calling the police reflects u abhor the action you saw. Do you call your dad to ask him if you should stop at a red light? Of course not? Because everybody knows what you are supposed to do. Why isn’t mcquery being charged criminally? Much less being painted as a victim in many cases by the media? Sickening.
November 10, 2011 at 4:21 pm
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November 10, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Jonathan Corley
McQueary did witness Sandusky sexually assaulting a young boy, however you have his story confused with the Penn State graduate student who stumbled upon Sandusky anal raping a boy in the showers. The grad student is the one who called his dad and then went to Paterno. All of these people are reprehensible for not doing more to stop that sexual predator, but at least get your facts right. Read the grand jury report if you don’t believe me. Pages 6 and 7 talk about the grad student incident, which you have misreported here.
November 10, 2011 at 5:43 pm
LMMacNair
Jonathan Corley, you are behind the news cycle on the story. You do not have your facts straight as a result. The graduate student and McQueary have been established for days now as THE SAME PERSON. Check any major news agency. The account of events posted here is correct.
November 10, 2011 at 6:49 pm
Angus Johnston
As LMMcN noted, Jonathan, McQueary is the grad student in question. Googling his name in conjunction with showers and 2002 will confirm that.
November 10, 2011 at 10:54 pm
Wordsmith
Not to mention that it’s also confirmed by the Grand Jury investigation and resultant publication of their findings.
November 14, 2011 at 2:00 am
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December 17, 2011 at 11:20 pm
Pissed off
You should go hang your self, you peace of shit of a human. To watch a young boy get assaulted like that and you turned your fucking read hair and walk away is sick. You ever step in my town, I will take care of you.