McQueary gives graphic Sandusky testimony

HARRISBURG, Pa.?? A Penn State assistant football coach testified Friday that he believes he saw former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky sexually molesting a boy but said he wasn't 100 percent sure it was intercourse.

Mike McQueary, speaking for the first time in public about the 2002 encounter, said he truly believes what he saw in a Penn State locker room was anal sodomy.

McQueary took the stand Friday in a Pennsylvania courtroom against two school officials accused of lying to a grand jury about the child sex-abuse allegations against Sandusky.

McQueary told the court on Friday that he had gone into the building one night in 2002 after watching a football movie at home, which he said had motivated him to go into the building and get some work done, reported NBC News.

When he went into the locker room, McQueary said heard slapping sounds, "skin on skin."

In the locker room, McQueary said he saw Sandusky behind a boy he estimated to be 10 or 12 years old, with his hands wrapped around the boy's waist. He said the boy was facing a wall, with his hands on it.

He said he peeked into the shower several times and that the last time he looked in, Sandusky and the boy had separated. He said he didn't say anything, but "I know they saw me. They looked directly in my eye, both of them."

The position was very "sexually oriented," McQueary said Friday, according to NBC News, but he told the court he couldn't say with "100 percent certainty it was forced."

His testimony came during a preliminary hearing for two school officials accused of lying to a grand jury about child sex-abuse allegations against former coach Jerry Sandusky.

McQueary told a grand jury that he told the administrators, Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, that he saw Sandusky sodomize a boy in a locker room shower in 2002.

Curley and Schultz are charged with lying to a grand jury and failing to properly report what McQueary allegedly told them. Their lawyers say the men are innocent and contest McQueary's statements.

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Deciding Curley and Schultz' next steps
District Judge William C. Wenner was hearing testimony Friday to help him decide whether state prosecutors have enough evidence against the pair to send their cases to trial.

Sandusky says he is innocent of more than 50 charges stemming from what authorities say were sexual assaults over 15 years on 10 boys in his home, on Penn State property and elsewhere. The scandal has provoked strong criticism that Penn State officials didn't do enough to stop Sandusky, and prompted the departures of Hall of Fame football coach Joe Paterno and the school's longtime president, Graham Spanier.

Curley, 57, Penn State's athletic director, was placed on leave by the university after his arrest. Schultz, 62, returned to retirement after spending about four decades at the school, most recently as senior vice president for business and finance, and treasurer.

Curley and Schultz testified to the grand jury that McQueary never relayed the seriousness of what he saw and that they told Spanier what they knew before telling Sandusky not to bring children on to campus.

McQueary has not been charged in the case but was put on administrative leave from the university, as was Curley. Schultz retired shortly after he was arraigned November 7 in suburban Harrisburg.

President and coach fired
Paterno and Penn State President Graham Spanier were fired for not telling police what they knew.

Sandusky waived his preliminary hearing on Tuesday and will go straight to trial on 52 counts of alleged sex abuse of boys over a 15-year period.

"We anticipate Mike McQueary will be at the hearing," said Martine Charles, a spokesperson for the attorneys representing the university administrators.

Unlike Sandusky, Curley and Schultz are not expected to waive their preliminary hearing before District Judge Wenner.? They deny the charges. Sandusky also says he is innocent.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45695764/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

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