Really? He seems so...so..young.
Ummm, NO McQueary is NOT a Korean War Combat Vet. There is another witness to another event, that walked in on the act of Sandusky abusing a child, years before McQueary did. He acted the same as McQueary, except he never reported it. Funny, what kind of message does that send, don't report it and avoid the public cruxification, but someone that does report it, well, you better have handled yourself perfectly, cause your going down. I'm sure when this all happens again, we won't see witness's afraid to come forward, Huh?
How 'about answering the question without running down the trail of what happened after his initial viewing of the crime, and who he reported it to, blah, blah, blah.
Who isn't answering the question?
Why didn't the Korean War Combat Vet, who witnessed a similiar crime by Sandusky 2 years before McQueary, do anything to stop it and let the child leave with the abuser? Sure, I'd accept the answer that he was a good 10 years older then Sandusky and near retirement, but why didn't he report it to anyone in authority or file a complaint? Just tell his friends about it?
I want to know why he didn't react then and there to a childs' rape. I think that is what most people are confused over. How could anybody turn their back on a crime in progress TO A CHILD. We see it all the time - people neglecting to call 911 to a pursesnatcher or someone witnessing petty theft in Wal-Mart. I can sorta get that....not wanting to get involved.
But I can't fathom someone witnessing a rape against a child and not doing anything to remove that child from the act and ensuring that that child is safely reunited with his parents.
It is mind boggling that someone could leave this violated child with the person performing the violation.
Yes, it is mind boggling. Like I stated before, most people condemning McQueary do NOT realize how close he was to the entire Sandusky Family half his life, I don't know what goes through a person's mind in the middle of that crisis. Just keep in mind, he did NOT walk in on a stranger and dirty old man, quite the opposite. I would pray if something happened to me, despite the relationship with someone, the shock would NOT paralyze me into inaction, like has been reported by the Grad Assistant.
Reports from the beginning have said the abuse of the child ended when he saw them and they saw him. As we have heard, McQueary disputed the claim he just ran out and let the abuse keep going. BUT, like you said, from what facts are out there, the child left with Sandusky that evening, yea, that is a big failing.
Apparently the same happened with the Janitor 2 years before, who was a Combat Vet, and from what has been reported, he acted the same way, except, he never reported it, other then to friends and no one did anything about it.
Which McQueary at least reported to people in authority at the University, and arguably he did report it to the cops when he reported it to the head of the Campus Police (which I guess, NO one wants to think about it and bother to check, by PA Law, the Penn State Campus Police are a "REAL UNIFORMED POLICE FORCE", the local municipal police have no jurisdiction over the Campus where it happened). I suspect this is what McQueary is talking about when it was in the news that he claimed in private correspondance with friends that he did report it to the cops.
So why do we just dismiss the folks that only compounded the problem, when by the university policy, even the law, it was their job to report it to the police, or even have the uniformed officers below them start an investigation?
