Posted on 11/11/2011 5:50:57 AM PST by servo1969
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary will miss Saturday's game against Nebraska after the school said he received "multiple threats."
McQueary testified in a grand jury investigation that eventually led to child sex-abuse charges being filed against former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. The ensuing scandal brought down longtime coach Joe Paterno, who was fired by the university on Wednesday amid growing criticism that he should have done more to stop the alleged abuse.
McQueary, who testified that he saw Sandusky sodomizing a boy in the shower, encountered similar scrutiny. The university's athletic department released a one-line statement Thursday night saying it would be "in the best interest of all" if the receivers coach didn't attend the season's final home game at Beaver Stadium.
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I’d at least move his office to a remote and isolated part of the campus, with no locks on the door.
McQ’s lawsuit would be one of many.
Because this one sick guy waited years and years to do something right, evil had a chance to spread further.
Protected by whistleblower laws. His testimony is considered important to corroborate the children’s against the creep. He will be discarded in due course and live the rest of his life in shame.
that interim coach ...there for 33 yrs.....HAD to have known.....and they all just let it pass...Sandusky was in the gym not a week before doing ...he had full access to Penn State....
Tip of the iceberg. Everyone should read the grand jury indictment and know the facts.
I don't think you made enough changes. It should read:
'Multiple Threats' Sideline Penn State Coach Morally Deficient Coward Who Witnessed Alleged Child Sexual Assault and ran home to daddy, crying like a little baby, while the child was still being allegedy raped. Questions raised as to whether he was too stupid to know how to dial 911 on a phone.
I hope they get all their computers...including Paterno’s if he has one....
Agree.
And to think that Paterno later promoted this guy. They all have to go.
Yeah, you do have a point. He should have attacked the snake that was attacking the child and rescued the child.
I can’t understand.
If I had witnessed what he did, even if I was sent to death row, I would do everything in my power to stop his rape of that child.
Everything.
How could anyone walk away from that? If anyone who had a part in this or the coverup takes their own life, I would be hard pressed to feel anything. And if I had told MY father, he would have dragged my by my arm, hair, ear, nose- the first thing he could grab- straight to the police department.
Yeah I agree. Even me, as a female would have shouted “Get off him, slimeball.”
Report this morning that football team friends and family are being encouraged to wear white to Saturday’s game to show support for JoePa. Meanwhile, another campus contingent has been urging folks to come wearing baby blue in support of the victims. The tv ratings for the game may break a record just because people want to watch what’s going on in the stands as much or more as what’s on the field.
You start by looking for the weakest links...there are no doubt some who are innocent, in that they never saw anything, but heard rumors...so maybe they asked Paterno about them,..and he told them that it was nothing, it had all been investigated and Sandusky cleared. That’s the clout that Paterno had..he could all but stop any inquiries by himself..
He was screwed the moment he saw it.
He probably had no clue how far reaching this pedophile ring had become, and how deeply embedded it was in Penn State’s Elite organization.
Oh! That’s just how Jerry is.
Don’t have any links, but I did look up McQueary’s background. He grew up in State College.
Read last night that McQueary’s dad and Sandusky were room mates in college at Penn St. If that is true, WOW!
First of all, I do NOT understand why there is even a game on Saturday. Collateral damage lawsuits anyone? Given the hyper emotional reaction (and threats) is it REALLY a good idea to assemble 105,000 people?
That said...it might NOT be a ‘whistleblower’ mindset that has PSU keeping McQueery on the payroll. It could be a confidentiality clause. Mark Madden, a Pittsburgh radio sports talk show host, blogged about this back in APRIL and got some bigtime hell for doing so...his posts back then, and what has happened this week are spot on...so I feel he has some impeccable sources. His working theory is MCQ has a confidentiality clause in his ‘special” coaching contract w/PSU. His rise in the coaching ranks was pretty meteoric...and MM theorizes a payback for his silence. Fire him—contract voided—he, and his father then hit the media.
In other words, the cover up continues on.
He is the guiltiest of all, since he saw it happening and did nothing to intervene.
But he is also the star witness. So both the university and the prosecutors have a vested interest in not pissing him off.
Life is so often lacking in justice.
No excuse for McQueary not intervening, but nowhere have I read that the child was struggling or screaming. Sandusky spent 3 yrs. grooming Victim 6 before taking him to shower with him with no overt sexual touching. The boy McQueary saw, acclimated after many years of graduating Sandusky molestations, may have appeared docile. No excuse for not saving the boy, but that scene must have seemed surreal.
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