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Star Witness Says Top Penn State Officials Knew About Child Sex Abuse

Mike McQueary, the former Penn State assistant football coach who saw Jerry Sandusky raping a boy in the team’s locker room, testified this week that top school officials knew about the sex abuse. He also added a new piece of information, claiming that longtime head coach Joe Paterno had blamed the university’s top brass for not responding adequately to the crime.

ESPN reports:

Longtime Penn State head coach Joe Paterno said that the university mishandled its response to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, a former assistant coach testified Monday during a hearing for three top school officials accused of a cover-up.

Star witness Mike McQueary appeared in a courtroom for the third time since Sandusky’s November 2011 arrest and told the court that top school officials knew that he had seen Sandusky molesting a boy in a locker room shower.

But the former Penn State assistant coach and quarterback also delivered some unexpected testimony: that the late Hall of Fame coach had told him over the years that “Old Main screwed up” — referring to university administrators — in how it responded to McQueary’s allegation against Sandusky…

Former Penn State president Graham Spanier, retired university vice president Gary Schultz and ex-athletic director Tim Curley are accused of failing to tell police about a sexual abuse allegation involving Sandusky and then trying to cover up what they knew. The men say they are innocent.

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