Paterno and McQueary had "no discussion of the previous complaint at that time or any other time," the report states. "Then he made the comment to McQueary this was the second complaint of this nature he had received about Sandusky," the report states, citing McQueary's recollection. "Paterno, upon hearing the news, sat back in his chair with a dejected look on his face," the report states, adding that McQueary "said Paterno's eyes appeared to well up with tears." McQueary, a one-time Penn State football assistant who became the star witness in the case against Sandusky, told state police in 2011 that he'd visited Paterno on a Saturday morning 10 years earlier to tell him that the previous evening he had witnessed "an extreme sexual act occurring between Sandusky and a young boy" in a football locker room shower, according to the report by Pennsylvania police. The report casts further doubt on claims made by Paterno and Paterno's family and supporters that the late Penn State coach knew nothing of the incidents before the 2001 incident. He is serving a sentence of at least 30 years in prison. An appeal is pending. McQueary's claim of abuse and other allegations led to Sandusky's conviction in 2012 for sexually abusing 10 boys over 15 years, including three victims after the 2001 locker room incident. Joe Paterno had received a warning about potential abuse by former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky years before his arrest, according to CNN.ĬNN obtained a Pennsylvania state police report that described the account of whistleblower Mike McQueary, who went to Paterno to tell the coach he had witnessed an incident between Sandusky and a young boy in a locker room.Īccording to CNN, citing the police report, Paterno allegedly told McQueary in 2001 that the claim against Sandusky "was the second complaint of this nature he had received," G Read George Diaz‘s blog at OrlandoSentinel.Watch Video: Report: Joe Paterno may have known about earlier Sandusky abuse claim I hope the victims and their families find some comfort in that. Those children will be forever scarred.īut so will Paterno’s legacy - forevermore - no matter how much his supporters scream in defiance. There are at least 32 victims over the years. And Penn State took a page out of the Catholic Church pedophile priest playbook and tried to bury those sins. Maybe he just didn’t want to know.īut through it all, unspeakable sins were committed on children. Maybe Paterno was naive, as some suggest, and brushed it off as “horseplay.” Maybe he got caught up in how this would destroy his legacy, as well as the stain it would leave on Penn State. But all the stories, all the documents, all the testimony, and all the pain says otherwise. Joe was a solid role model and father-figure to them and so many others, and therefore he was incapable of being complicit in Sandusky’s sex scandal. Good men like Michael Timpson and Mike McBath. To this day, almost to a man, his former players support him unequivocally. He donated millions to help build an on-campus library and at least $1 million for a campus interfaith spiritual center. He was not only a great football coach but a great molder of young men. Paterno was the most powerful force in all the land because of all the other things he did, many of them deserving of praise and platitudes. The phone call would have come from the most powerful man in Pennsylvania. Paterno, the legendary football coach, could have made that phone call without so much as getting his hands dirty.” Sandusky was allowed to continue to use the Penn State facilities is beyond me. “Why no one made a phone call to police is beyond me,” Boccabella said during the sentencing. Judge John Boccabella certainly isn’t buying any of it, either. “Unfortunately he died and I didn’t get to.” “I’d be willing to sit on a witness stand and confront Joe Paterno,” the victim told CNN. Then last year, a day after CNN broke that story, Penn State acknowledged that it had paid a settlement to a victim. He said he reported the attack to Paterno and another Penn State official. Is that what they’re calling child rapists these days?īut Sandusky’s sexual abuse goes as far back as 1971 when a 15-year-old boy was raped.
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