“You did the right thing. Now it’s up to me to decide what we want to do,” is how Freeh described Paterno’s response to McQueary, who saw Sandusky raping a boy in the football showers. Also, it was a Friday, and Paterno, being such a great and thoughtful leader, didn’t want to ruin anyone’s weekend.
You have to put that quote into the proper context. McQueary said that he did not explicitly tell Paterno what he saw in the shower. He just basically said that he saw Sandusky showering with a kid. At that point, Paterno did not know that anything of a sexual nature had happened.
McQueary, at best, has been inconsistent in his descriptions of what he saw and heard that night. Even the Sandusky trial jury did not give a lot of credence to McQueary account of the incident. Sandusky was acquitted on 3 of the 48 charges. One of those three charges was sexual assault of the boy that McQueary saw in the shower with Sandusky.
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