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Mike McQueary says he truly believes what he saw in a Penn State locker room in 2002 was intercourse.
McQueary took the stand Friday in a Pennsylvania courtroom against two school officials accused of lying to a grand jury about the child sex-abuse allegations against Sandusky.
McQueary says the boy looked 10 or 12 years old. He says Sandusky was behind the boy, with his hands wrapped around the boy’s waist. He says the boy was facing a wall, with his hands on it.
The testimony is the first time McQueary is telling his story in a public setting.
A Penn State assistant football coach took the stand Friday in a Pennsylvania courtroom against two school officials accused of lying to a grand jury about child sex-abuse allegations against former coach Jerry Sandusky.
Mike McQueary told a grand jury that he told the administrators, Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, that he saw Sandusky sodomize a boy in a locker room shower in 2002.
Curley and Schultz are charged with lying to a grand jury and failing to properly report what McQueary allegedly told them. Their lawyers say the men are innocent and contest McQueary’s statements
District Judge William C. Wenner was hearing testimony Friday to help him decide whether state prosecutors have enough evidence against the pair to send their cases to trial.
Sandusky says he is innocent of more than 50 charges stemming from what authorities say were sexual assaults over 15 years on 10 boys in his home, on Penn State property and elsewhere. The scandal has provoked strong criticism that Penn State officials didn’t do enough to stop Sandusky, and prompted the departures of Hall of Fame football coach Joe Paterno and the school’s longtime president, Graham Spanier.
Curley, 57, Penn State’s athletic director, was placed on leave by the university after his arrest. Schultz, 62, returned to retirement after spending about four decades at the school, most recently as senior vice president for business and finance, and treasurer.
Curley and Schultz testified to the grand jury that McQueary never relayed the seriousness of what he saw and that they told Spanier what they knew before telling Sandusky not to bring children on to campus.
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