Jerry Sandusky Interview: New Email Says McQueary Stopped Abuse
Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary did more than originally was reported to stop the alleged child sex abuse he witnessed in the Penn State locker room showers in 2002, according to a newly obtained email.
McQueary’s email was obtained by The Morning Call newspaper and in the email McQueary professes that he stopped the act and spoke to police officials.
“I did stop it, not physically, but made sure it was stopped when I left that locker room,” McQueary wrote in a Nov. 8 email to a former classmate.
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“No one can imagine my thoughts or wants to be in my shoes for those 30-45 seconds. Trust me,” he wrote.
A grand jury report alleges that McQueary, a graduate assistant at the time, saw Jerry Sandusky raping a young boy in the Penn State locker room. According to court records, police never questioned McQueary.
Court documents show that McQueary informed former Penn State head coach Joe Paterno, who informed the school’s athletic director. However, no action was taken against Sandusky other than to inform him not to bring boys into Penn State facilities.
Sandusky, who faces 40 criminal counts of child sexual abuse, proclaimed his innocence in a Nov. 14 phone interview with NBC’s Bob Costas.
Sandusky told Costas of the alleged 2002 shower incident, “We were showering and horsing around and he actually turned all the showers on and was actually sliding across the floor and we were, as I recall, possibly like snapping a towel and horseplay.”
Sandusky did admit “in retrospect” that showering with young boys was not proper conduct.
However, Ben Andreozzi, the attorney for one of Sandusky’s alleged victims said that Sandusky’s claims that he merely horsed around with young men are “100 percent false.”
Andreozzi told CBS News, “It appears that Mr. Sandusky is trying to re-victimize the young men; first by the sex assault and then assaulting them again by refusing to accept culpability for his conduct.”
