Comments on: Jerry Sandusky Trial: Mike McQueary testifies that he saw Sandusky and boy in shower at PSU
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- Something you guys need to take into account, is that college life is different from real life. And that starts with the students, and works its way up to the top. Things are slowly changing, but not so long ago, if a female student was raped, she didn't call an ambulance or go to the police station. She went to the school infirmary and reported the assault to a counselor, who then took it from there. That's the way it was/is. My husband works at a university, and you wouldn't believe the crimes that go unreported. If somebody was murdered, they'd call the cops, but most everything else is handled internally. Most students would never even think of calling the cops before reporting a crime to the school. IDK why, maybe because a college is so structured, and everybody is taught to not go over their immediate superior's head, so there's a fear of not following rules...kind of like the military. I'm not surprised that Mcqueary didn't call the cops. Actually, I would have been surprised if he had. A college job is different than a regular job, especially a coach. It's 24/7, and there's no separation between work life and real life. It's all one and the same. It would be like if you witnessed an uncle committing a crime, you wouldn't necessarily run to the phone and call 911. You'd consider the severity of the crime versus the consequences, hurting his parents, you'd discuss it with other family members and get their advice, etc... I'm not not excusing Mcqueary's behavior, but I think he really believed he did the right thing. He made an attempt to stop the assault, (albeit a pathetic one), and then reported it. In hindsight, I bet he wishes he had beaten Sandusky senseless, and then called the cops, but I'm not even sure that would have been a good solution. At that time, dragging the cops into it, might have traumatized the little boy even more. But, at least that awful man is answering for his crimes now.
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- I like to think that, even at the age of 25, if I was convinced I saw a pedophile sodomizing a child (as Mike McQueary's testimony said), I'd have called the police. But I don't know that any of us could definitively say that without actually experiencing it.
What I do know for sure is that I wouldn't have called my parents in the middle of the night to talk to them about it. But then my relationship with my parents has never been anything resembling a close one and I know that, if I had, all I'd have gotten for it would have been a serious tongue-lashing for having called them in the middle of the night without somebody in our family either being on their way to the hospital in an ambulance or dead.
But what I will never understand is why his father didn't tell him to hang up and call the police immediately. Why on earth would he tell his son to "to leave immediately and come to the house"? Think about it. If someone had witnessed Mike being sexually molested 15 years previously, and John McQueary had found out about it, don't you think John McQueary would have been positively livid that someone had actually seen his son being abused and not called the police immediately?
You think his father would have been okay with the witness waiting until the next day to just tell his boss about it? And then essentially just figuring that was enough and just dropping the whole subject?
And while Mike told his father, that very night, what he'd witnessed, both of them seemed to be okay with seeing Sandusky around children for years after. Obviously nothing had been done with Mike's report to "the powers that be" at Penn State. Why didn't this "trusted adviser" ever say, "Mike, what happened about your report of what you saw Sandusky doing that night? If nobody at Penn State is going to do anything about it, you should report it to the police." Again, would John McQueary have been that complacent about it had it been his own son that had been the victim?
I'll buy Mike being shocked and somewhat confused that night. But Sandusky had already been investigated for sexual abuse of a child in 1998. McQueary testified that he saw the shower room incident in 2001. And yet, even when he saw no action being taken against Sandusky, he waited TEN YEARS to tell anybody else?
And now Mike is basically immune to any kind of prosecution himself, and still has his job, under Pennsylvania's whistleblower laws. Yet Mike never blew any whistle. It was the mother of "Victim #1" that blew the whistle and started the whole investigation in the spring of 2008. If a grand jury had not been convened in response to the mother's complaint, Mike may well not have said anything even now, and Sandusky might still be sodomizing children. - Reply to this comment
- Here is one instance where I approve of Shariah law. In this case a sharp sword should not be used, a very dull one is quite good enough.
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- McQeary protected his own but, he knew and lived with knowing Sandusky molested little boys..I agree, Sandusky is getting excited once again just to hear the victims recount how he molested them as children. Hell is too good for Sandusky and McQeary should be arrested for knowing that little boys were beng molested and he should have reported it to the POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE FBI. In his day and age of cellphones having camera's he could have taken a picture of the molesting...I hope McQeary rots, never is able to be hired by any company of college or university..He is only testifying to relieve his guilty conscious. Sandusky reminds me of John Wayne Gacy who molested teen age boys and then killed them....are there any missing little boys in the area where Sandusky might have been?
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- Mr. McQueary's statement sound legitimate. For most people in America this sexual crime would have taken most people by surprise. To not understand what he saw and to not have clear direction is part of the problem entering uncharted moral discrepancies. This is not something that is easily proved and in the years this happened it is uncertain how the people at top will treat the messenger.
The coach needs to be in jail the rest of his life and the rest of us need better stories to read at night! - Reply to this comment
- Something "ridiculous"? How about something disgusting, depraved, criminal, etc. The only thing "ridiculous" is McQueary's testimony.
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- I disagree with all the criticism against McQueary. He was very young. He did go to multiple superiors with what he saw, and he did it immediately. I think he did about as well as a young person early 20's would know to do.
I'm really tired of all the couch potatoes who think they know better. Over on CafeMom they're criticizing the father who killed a man abusing his 4 year old daughter. They weren't there, they don't know what happened: I think they should shut their face rather than write a whole page condemning him. Especially when there are hardly any facts to go on, but they KNOW what happened.
The people who need to judge this situation are sitting on the jury now. So pray they do a good job and they make the right decisions. That would be more profitable, IMO. - Reply to this comment
- Sandusky should be hung up naked by his balls until he can't breath. Even that would be to good for him. I truly believe everyone who knew about what this man was doing and they did should be punished. Including his wife, after all these years she new what was happening in her own house. There is no way she didn't know.
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- Sergeant Schultz: I know nooooothing!
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- In 1985, I witnessed a youth minister fondling 11-12 year old boys in a college swimming pool. It was blatant. Visible to the eyes of any observer, he reached into the front of their bathing suits and fondled them. As I say, it was right out in the open. The adults present did not seem to believe their eyes. I asked the college age lifeguard to look over in youth minister's direction (he was STILL abusing the boys!) and she said, "I know what you mean but said that there was nothing she could do unless the boys complained." I complained loudly and angrily shouted at him. The next day, the youth minister was gone and there was a very experienced life guard. I don't know if he was ever reported to the police. I can only imagine the pressure to deny abuse if the person abusing was considered an revered man of integrity--the peer pressure not believe one's eyes-can be enormous.
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