Mike McQueary (here with Joe Paterno) saw the alleged rape and left the locker room
There’s no excuse for walking out on a child – especially during rape.
I am sickened by the claim from Penn State’s Assistant Coach that he helped stop the child molestation being perpetrated by former Penn State Coach Jerry Sandusky. Do you know why?
For those of you who have been a little out of the loop on the Penn State scandal, let me give you a short background. Former coach Jerry Sandusky has been charged with multiple counts of child sex abuse over several years, leading to the resignation of at least two members, the firing of the Penn State President, and the firing of legendary coach Joe Paterno. That’s it in a nutshell, but what really gets me is why no one stopped it.
I understand that there is only so much you can do, if what you know is only hearsay – and once you’ve told someone, there’s often no more than can be done.
In the case of Mike McQueary, a Penn State assistant football coach, things could have been done – and they weren’t.
“I did stop it [the molestation], not physically, but…”
Mike McQueary walked in on Jerry Sandusky in the locker room when he was “allegedly” raping a young boy… AND WALKED OUT.
Now he has the gall to excuse his behavior by saying this: “I did stop it, not physically, but made sure it was stopped when I left that locker room.”
Are you serious?
That quote was obtained by the Allentown, Pennsylvania, newspaper, which was taken from an email he sent to a former classmate on November 8 of this year.
McQueary was paralyzed in shock for 30-45 seconds… I guess
McQueary further stated in the email that “No one can imagine my thoughts or wants to be in my shoes for those 30-45 seconds,” McQueary said. “Trust me.”
McQueary justified his response by saying that he had gone to police after the alleged raping, but let’s stop there. That’s enough!
McQueary was a graduate student at the time of the alleged incident, which reportedly happened back in 2002, but even as a teenager, I am quite sure what my response would be…
“Get the hell away from that boy!” And I probably would have attacked him in the process.
We are talking about a grown man raping a boy in the locker room, and the witness just walks out.
“Thirty to forty-five seconds” McQueary said about his witnessing of the alleged incident, perhaps I guess frozen in time as he didn’t know what to do.
Most of us would assess what was going on in less than five seconds, and there are very few people who would allow that to continue as they left the building.
McQueary is sick, and I am mad. No child should ever have to be abandoned by someone who could have helped him.
I found (from an INCREDIBLY unlikely source) a well composed and well researched blog post that essentially outlines the link between homophobic organizations in which adults have “ultimate authority” over children and pedophilia. I think if more people understood the reality that pedophilia is incur able, dangerous, and facilitated by these organizations, more of them would come under scrutiny. Click here to read it for yourself http://bit.ly/tNvUjh .