McQueary played in Sandusky's golf tourney after alleged rape

Jerry Snow Sporting News

Mike McQueary’s reaction to seeing a young boy allegedly being raped in the Penn State football showers is under heavy scrutiny, and his behavior in the months following also seems unusual.

According to a grand jury report, McQueary testified he heard “sexual activity” coming from the showers on March 1, 2002, and saw then 59-year-old Jerry Sandusky sodomizing a boy he estimated to be about 10 years old.

McQueary has been criticized for not doing more to help the boy, and for going to his dad and head football coach Joe Paterno rather than police or child services.

Then a 28-year-old graduate assistant, McQueary has since changed his story, according to a leaked email, saying he informed police the night it happened.

The police say there is no evidence to support such a claim.

Paterno described McQueary as “very upset” when he shared the news with his head coach the next morning, and yet 26 days later McQueary participated in an event with Sandusky.

Multiple sources are reporting McQueary, an assistant coach on Penn State’s football team, played in a charity flag football game in which Sandusky coached on March 28, 2002.

Less than three months later, on June 21, 2002, McQueary played in a celebrity golf tournament benefiting Sandusky’s charity, The Second Mile, according to citizensvoice.com.

McQueary played in Sandusky's golf tournament again in 2003 and played in another flag football game with Sandusky coaching in April 2004.

It’s another bizarre twist in the child sex scandal at Penn State.

And in another twist, The New York Times reported Wednesday nightthat an entry in an online forum dedicated to Penn State athletics led investigators to McQueary. The item, according to the Times, stated that an assistant coach witnessed an assault but did not act. The Times report suggests investigators were able to eventually deduct McQueary was the assistant coach referenced in the item.

According to the Times' sources, McQueary eventually met with investigators and told them that he witnessed Sandusky assaulting the boy.
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