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12-16-2011, 07:38 PM
Tribune news services
12:30 PM CST, December 16, 2011
Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary testified Friday that he told administrators he saw Jerry Sandusky sexually molesting a boy but said he wasn't certain that it was intercourse.
McQueary said he watched for one or two seconds from about six feet away before turning away in disgust, not wanting to see more. "They looked directly in my eyes," McQueary told the court, the Allentown Morning Call reports.
“I heard rhythmic slapping sounds, two or three slaps that sounded like skin on skin. I was already alarmed, embarrassed.”
The boy was 10 to 12 years old and made no noise, McQueary said.
"I believed Jerry was having sexual intercourse with him, there was no protest or yelling, so can't say for sure," he said.
He said he was “shocked, horrified, not thinking straight. I was distraught.”
McQueary, 37, described the scene for the first time in public at a preliminary hearing for suspended athletic director Tim Curley and retired university vice president Gary Schultz.
The two are charged with lying to the grand jury whose findings have resulted in Sandusky's arrest on charges of sexually assaulting 10 boys over the years.
McQueary said he later called his father and told him: “I just saw coach Sandusky. What I saw was wrong and sexual.”
McQueary also talked to legendary Penn State coach Joe Paterno about the incident.
Asked if he used the phrase “anal intercourse” in describing what he saw to Paterno, McQueary said, “No, out of respect, I would not have done it.”
Paterno told him, “I'm sorry you had to see that” and that he had “done the absolute right thing,” McQuery said.
Paterno appeared “shocked and saddened” after hearing what McQueary saw, and “slumped back in his chair,” McQueary said.
Paterno, 84, who is undergoing treatment for lung cancer and recovering from a fractured pelvis, is unlikely to take the stand Friday. Prosecutors could simply read both Paterno's and McQueary's testimony into the record, so it's uncertain whether McQueary will take the witness stand.
McQueary took the stand Friday in a Pennsylvania courtroom during a preliminary hearing for two school officials accused of lying to a grand jury about the child sex-abuse allegations against Sandusky.
12:30 PM CST, December 16, 2011
Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary testified Friday that he told administrators he saw Jerry Sandusky sexually molesting a boy but said he wasn't certain that it was intercourse.
McQueary said he watched for one or two seconds from about six feet away before turning away in disgust, not wanting to see more. "They looked directly in my eyes," McQueary told the court, the Allentown Morning Call reports.
“I heard rhythmic slapping sounds, two or three slaps that sounded like skin on skin. I was already alarmed, embarrassed.”
The boy was 10 to 12 years old and made no noise, McQueary said.
"I believed Jerry was having sexual intercourse with him, there was no protest or yelling, so can't say for sure," he said.
He said he was “shocked, horrified, not thinking straight. I was distraught.”
McQueary, 37, described the scene for the first time in public at a preliminary hearing for suspended athletic director Tim Curley and retired university vice president Gary Schultz.
The two are charged with lying to the grand jury whose findings have resulted in Sandusky's arrest on charges of sexually assaulting 10 boys over the years.
McQueary said he later called his father and told him: “I just saw coach Sandusky. What I saw was wrong and sexual.”
McQueary also talked to legendary Penn State coach Joe Paterno about the incident.
Asked if he used the phrase “anal intercourse” in describing what he saw to Paterno, McQueary said, “No, out of respect, I would not have done it.”
Paterno told him, “I'm sorry you had to see that” and that he had “done the absolute right thing,” McQuery said.
Paterno appeared “shocked and saddened” after hearing what McQueary saw, and “slumped back in his chair,” McQueary said.
Paterno, 84, who is undergoing treatment for lung cancer and recovering from a fractured pelvis, is unlikely to take the stand Friday. Prosecutors could simply read both Paterno's and McQueary's testimony into the record, so it's uncertain whether McQueary will take the witness stand.
McQueary took the stand Friday in a Pennsylvania courtroom during a preliminary hearing for two school officials accused of lying to a grand jury about the child sex-abuse allegations against Sandusky.