Additional layers were added to the Jerry Sandusky child-sex abuse scandal at Penn State recently with a pair of Mike McQueary emails surfacing Monday and Tuesday.
In the first email, sent to friends and former teammates, the in-limbo Nittany Lions assistant insisted that he “didn’t just turn and run” after allegedly witnessing Sandusky sodomizing a 10-year-old boy in the shower of the football building in 2002, writing “I made sure it stopped” before phoning his father. In the second email, this one to a former Penn State classmate, McQueary not only reiterates that he put a stop to the alleged attack -- “I did stop it, not physically ... but made sure it was stopped when I left that locker room” -- but that he had “discussions with police and with the official at the university in charge of police.”
In a statement made to police during the grand jury’s investigation of Sandusky, the hand-written copy of which was reviewed and verified by Sara Ganim of the Patriot-News, McQueary appears to have completely left out what he alleged in the two emails.In it, McQueary states that he witnessed a boy, about 10, being sodomized in a shower and hurried out of the locker room. He does not mention stopping the assault, and does not mention talking to any police officers in the following days, the statement says.
The whole incident, the statement says, lasted about a minute, and McQueary wrote that he would not recognize the boy if he saw him today.
McQueary does say in the police statement that he talked to his father, to Joe Paterno, and to Athletic Director Tim Curley and Vice President Gary Schultz.
The paper notes that this statement to police, not the emails that he’s been sending to friends and former teammates and classmates, matches up with the grand jury’s summary of his testimony in front of them last December.
In another development related to the McMails, and going back to his claims of discussions with police, the police chief of the State College police department said today that his department did not receive any reports from McQueary on the alleged 2002 incident. A Penn State spokesperson also said that the university has found no record of any report made by McQueary to the University Police concerning Sandusky’s alleged on-campus rape.