Penn State coach Mike McQueary, who witnessed Jerry Sandusky anally raping a 10 year old boy in the locker room, is now in full damage control mode:

In the email obtained by The Morning Call, McQueary wrote that he “did have discussions with police and with the official at the university in charge of police” following the alleged incident involving Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant coach, and a boy. McQueary also wrote that he “is getting hammered for handling this the right way or what I thought at the time was right.”

“I had to make tough impacting quick decisions,” McQueary wrote.

I have read the grand jury report countless times (you can read the PDF file here). Not once in there does it say that McQueary told the police. Here’s the abridged version of what happened, per the grand jury report:

• Friday, March 1, 2002 – McQuery witnessed the crime. He called his father who told him to come to his house. His father said he had to “promptly” report it to Joe Paterno.
• Saturday, March 2, 2002 – This is when the “prompt” reporting happened. McQueary went to JoePa’s house to report what he had saw.
• Sunday, March 3, 2002 – JoePa calls Tim Curley, the athletic director, to his home to tell him what happened.
• Approx. 10 days later – McQuery was called to a meeting with Curley and Senior Vice President for Finance and Business Gary Schultz.

Schultz oversees the campus police as part of his duty, but he isn’t the police. No where in the grand jury report does it mention McQueary actually talking to the police.

And then!

“Tough impacting quick decisions”? Excuse me, but when a 10 year old boy is being raped by a 56 year old man, what’s so tough and impacting about deciding what to do? You fucking stop it! I guess McQueary’s “tough impacting quick decision” was only about his own career!

But the outrage that is Mike McQueary doesn’t stop there:

In the email obtained by The Morning Call, dated Nov. 8, McQueary said, “I did stop it, not physically, but made sure it was stopped when I left that locker room.”

Apparently McQueary can’t remember what he told the grand jury, so let me remind him by again citing the very legal document called “the grand jury report”:

“The graduate assistant was shocked but noticed that both Victim 2 and Sandusky saw him. The graduate assistant left immediately, distraught.”

How is “leaving immediately” the same as stopping it? It sounds like he is assuming that Sandusky stopped raping the boy because he saw McQueary, but we are talking about a serial child predator here, who has been caught numerous times before. McQueary has no proof that he stopped it and I would venture to say didn’t, given Sandusky’s past patterns.

Maybe McQueary is also referring to stopping future incidents, because he did find out that Sandusky got the very severe punishment by the university of having his keys to the locker room taken away. Certainly Sandusky didn’t have any other place to take his prey.

McQueary probably thinks he is helping himself by saying this, just like he thought he stopped the crime. The fact is he is now looking like a big liar. McQueary may not have broken any laws by not going to the police, but morally his inactions make him very complicit in this crime. He might as well have been holding the boy down for Sandusky and everyone of Sandusky’s future victims.