Report: Mike McQueary Email To Friend Claims He Stopped Alleged Sandusky Assault

by Nando Di Fino | 6:07 pm, November 15th, 2011

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Earlier today, Mediaite founder Dan Abrams took the unenviable position of defending Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary, the man who initially reported to his superiors that Jerry Sandusky was sexually abusing young boys on the Penn State grounds. McQueary has been vilified by people from every corner, and had to take administrative leave because of death threats and violent messages sent his way.

On Tuesday afternoon, a friend of McQueary’s released an email to the AP’s Genaro C. Armas from Nov. 8, where McQueary said that he had stopped an alleged assault by Sandusky and gone to police about it in 2002. He also was facing intense pressure for his actions:

“I am getting hammered for handling this the right way … or what I thought at the time was right,” he says. “I had to make tough impacting quick decisions.”

Frustratingly vague, yes? But as the saga unfolds, we’ll likely get more emails released by the mystery friend, possibly shedding more light into how the reporting of the accusations actually played out, as well as what roles men like Joe Paterno and McQueary actually had. For now, though, all we can do is gobble up more piecemeal leaks, and try to put together the enigmatic puzzle that is Mike McQueary.

(Image credit: AP Photo/Tony Ding)

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http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

Went to the police in 2002? Awaiting that investigation in which police absolve themselves.
kit9

What a load of crap. He LEFT the child with the monster. Does he not think Sandusky picked up right where he left off the second he left? If not in a shower, the car? McQueary didn’t call the police. He didn’t rescue the child from the clutches of a monster. Someone please tell me why this disgusting POS still has a job.
kit9

The very fact it’s being dribbled out this way-by email(and like that can’t be faked) is very suspect. If McQueary actually did something, he’d have held a press conference and said so a week ago.
Rebinohio

“A song for the deaf that is for you.”
Lulu

We can perhaps understand the need to run away but he continued having contact with Sandusky. There’s not much else to say. He allowed himself to be part of a pedophile ring, I just hope Sandusky is unique in this group and they are simply enablers…wishful thinking.
Kahlid Shiek Yerbouti

Most are forgetting that McQueary was only 19 years old when this event happened, and did what he believed he was supposed to do given the circumstances. He reported up the chain of command and likely believed he did everything he could considering the fact he was likely working for his idol, Joe Pa. default4798 {“method”:”validate”,”params”:[],”id”:1,”jsonrpc”:”2.0″}
Anonymous

I was thinking the same thing. Also, there is absolutely no mention of this in his grand jury testimony. I can’t believe you’d leave a detail like that out. And, if he did speak to police, where are the notes from that interview?

In fairness, I guess it’s possible that a day or two later, he could have gone to police and gave them his story. And, if the prosecutor didn’t ask him specifically if he did speak to police, that there’s a chance he wouldn’t have mentioned it.

If he spoke to police, and not just Paterno, this probably makes things worse for Penn State, not better. After all, the police report to the university administration – in fact, I think the police report to one of the administrators that has been fired (not positive). How bad is that going to look?

Not calling the police is bad, but stiffling a police investigation once it’s underway, has got to be worse – perhaps even criminal.
Anonymous

McQueary had to be older than 19. I remember when he played QB – it was during the mid to late 1990s. He had to be in his late 20s in 2002.
Anonymous

I understand what you’re saying. But our society is sending teenagers 16 years old and younger to prison for life for doing the wrong thing; so I is it is too much to ask of a 19 year old to do the right thing? He didn’t save the child.
Rliberato3

Kahlid,
McQueary was 28 years old at the time of this incident…an age when he should have known better. Grab a baseball bat, pull a fire alarm….anything. Anything.
Kahlid Shiek Yerbouti

My bad, I thought he was only now twenty eight, sorry. He should have done more if that’s the case. But why the baseball bat, I thought this was about a football program? Yuk Yuk.
Anonymous

He claims he talked to the police, but he doesn’t say when. Could he mean only that he spoke to university police in the immediate aftermath? Note that he said he “spoke to police and the university official in charge of police.” (I am paraphrasing). Could he mean that he spoke to State College police in the run-up to his recent grand jury testimony? The grand jury report says that no other agencies (outside the university) conducted any kind of investigation after the 2002 incident McQueary saw.

Whatever the truth is, it’s clear McQueary’s statement was deliberately vague and slippery — and well-polished by his lawyer and, probably, PSU.
SR

The only thing you decision was impacting was career and fear of bing pummeled by Pedophile Sandusky, you didn’t care about the boy, if you did your stupid a$$ would have taken the boy to safety by the hand. The way a real man would do! F***K YOU COWARD!!!!
TXConservative

Yes, you are so right.

I am not a physically strong person, but I guarantee you that I could have looked around that locker room area and found something with which I could hit Sandusky until he let go of the boy.

But then again, I am not a coward, and McQueary is. Sorry, but if you are a strong man like McQueary and you allow a rape of a child to continue because you are worried about your job, then you are a coward without honor.
TXConservative

He was 28 years old!!
TXConservative

True.