Penn State Scandal: Why Mike McQueary's Silence Is an Outrage

Mike McQueary is just as responsible for Penn State’s cover-up job as administrator Gary Schultz, athletic director Tim Curley and possibly even head coach Joe Paterno.

McQueary, who is now the wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator for the Nittany Lions, is the man named in the grand jury report on Jerry Sandusky as witnessing the former defensive coordinator having anal intercourse with a young boy in the showers.

He is just as responsible because of what the report states he did after witnessing the act back on that now infamous March 1, 2002 night.

The report states:

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The graduate assistant was shocked but noticed that both Victim 2 and Sandusky saw him. The graduate assistant left immediately, distraught. The graduate assistant went to his office and called his father, reporting to him what he had seen. His father told the graduate assistant to leave the building and come to his home. The graduate assistant and his father decided that the graduate assistant had to report what he had seen to Coach Joe Paterno ("Paterno"), head football coach of Pemi [SIC] State.

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Why didn’t McQueary, at that time a 28-year-old man and former QB for the Nittany Lions, stop the 57-year-old Sandusky and report it to the authorities?

He would have been more than able to physically defend that young man and put a stop to it if he felt compelled to.

A mother of one of the victims described in the report drew this same conclusion:

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“I don’t even have words to talk about the betrayal that I feel,” said the mom of Victim Six. “[McQueary] was a grown man, and he saw a boy being sodomized... He ran and called his daddy?”

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McQueary needs to step up now and atone for his mistakes from nearly 10 years ago if he ever wants to redeem his dignity.

As of right now, there are no plausible excuses for his inaction and meek response of just forwarding it up the university chain of command instead of going to law enforcement after clearly witnessing a human losing his innocence to a monster.

No one will feel sorry for McQueary, but speaking on what happened and apologizing is the right thing to do and something he must do as a moral human being.