Mike McQueary: Embattled Coach Denies That He Failed to Act

What would you have done if you were Mike McQueary?

Concerning the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal that has enveloped Penn State University, this is one of the more popular questions being asked. A grand jury report claims that McQueary witnessed Sandusky, Penn State's former defensive coordinator, sexually assaulting a young boy who looked to be about 10 years old in the Penn State football locker room showers.

That was back in 2002, and the story goes that McQueary first told his father and then Penn State head coach Joe Paterno, who then had McQueary recount what he had seen for Athletic Director Tim Curley and administrator Gary Schultz.

The police were never informed. For that, there is no shortage of blame to go around. Depending on who you ask, McQueary is more at fault than anyone.

Unless, of course, the story of the 2002 incident is incomplete. That's what McQueary, formerly the Nittany Lions' wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator, would have you believe.

Per the Twitter account of NBC News correspondent Peter Alexander, McQueary sent out an email to former teammates that attempted to clear the air. Alexander selected key passages and dispersed them over three tweets.

Here's part one:

And part two:

And lastly, part three:

The key part is contained in the second tweet, in which McQueary claimed that he actually intervened with Sandusky back in 2002.

This is a new wrinkle in the case. The grand jury report merely claims that McQueary left "immediately," and that the first move he made was to call his father.

Keep in mind that all of this is coming from McQueary himself. If the grand jury report is incomplete, it's because he neglected to mention that he intervened with Sandusky.

If McQueary did indeed intervene, then he did exactly what many people are insisting he should have done back in 2002. Instead of running and telling his father, many think McQueary should have put a stop to it.

If he did, then the alleged cover-up that followed McQueary's report to Paterno and company is put in a much different light. 

Nevertheless, the question remains why the police were never informed. Curley and Schultz chose not to report the matter, and neither did Paterno or McQueary. Given this latest development, it is easy to speculate that McQueary figured he had done enough.

Because of that, the other question also remains:

What would you have done?