Let’s see if I have this straight: Grad Student sees the reprehensible act, leaves and tells father instead of yelling “hey, stop!”, then dad tells Paterno something. Paterno has no direct knowledge of the event nor do we know exactly how it was described to Paterno.
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No you do not have it correct. Paterno said Mcqueary (not his dad) told him it was “fondling or an act of a sexual nature” in his testimony to the grand jury.
You should read the grand jury report if you want to know the facts of what happened.
http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/uploadedFiles/Press/Sandusky-Grand-Jury-Presentment.pdf
No one is absolving McQueary of anything, (or his nitwit father), but that doesn’t absolve Paterno either.