Two police departments say Penn State coach never filed report

CNN ^ | Wed November 16, 2011

[GOPsterinMA]

Really...”BriWi” would most likely donate to the Sandusky Defense Fund.

[Cracker Jack]

Representatives of Penn State's campus police and State College police said Wednesday they have no record of having received any report from a Penn State assistant football coach about his having witnessed an alleged rape of a boy by former coach Jerry Sandusky.

I find it very easy to believe the campus police have no record of any report. But that is not the same as claiming there never was a report. If there was a report, I am sure it just "disappeared", maybe in the last two weeks.

Maybe someone kept a copy of the report, sort of like Monica's blue dress.

Penn State, by cooperating in the cover up, is looking a lot worse than Duke did, where the district attorney was the bad guy.

[eyedigress]

Ya think

[BunnySlippers]

I can say one thing.

I once was involved in an incident, maybe 30 years ago, when someone went missing just north of Mexico. I was appalled and got a motel room and went to the police department.

Yeah, I was young, the police took me in their car to the site. They drove me back to my motel.

Later, I had to prove what happened and the was NO record. I looked like a liar but it did happen.

I have since heard of some local incidents of robbery and rape attempts and there is no police record.

Not sure what to think.

[MarMema]

He told him NOT to bring the kids to the school. In other words, go do your child molesting somewhere else besides here.

And that's how you know he knew and just turned away. Scum.

[Shannon]

Anyone else catch this from the article?
"No one can imagine my thoughts or wants to be in my shoes for those 30-45 seconds," McQueary said.

Exactly what is he saying here? Is he saying he watched a child being raped for 30 - 45 seconds? What else could he mean?

[Shannon]

Reports can go missing by design or mistake. But with something as HUGE as this wouldn't you think McQueary would have gone back the following day and gotten a copy of that report to tuck away for a rainy day? All brawn, no brains evidently.

[BunnySlippers]

Oh, yes, yes, yes!

On something like a child being abused, I would have wondered after a couple of weeks why Sandusky was still there. I would have gone to the press, the FBI or the university to protest!

[bigbob]

Wow, the cops must be pissed about his statement to have gone public with a denial like this so soon. They could have just stayed quiet.

[SeaHawkFan]

Representatives of Penn State's campus police and State College police said Wednesday they have no record of having received any report from a Penn State assistant football coach about his having witnessed an alleged rape of a boy by former coach Jerry Sandusky.

Here are some possibilities:

1. The coach never called;
2. The coach called but the police simply did not write a report.
3. The police are lying about not getting a call;
4. The cops took a report and didn't follow up;
5. The cops took a report and decided to put it in the round file (i.e. cover it up).

I could believe any of these posibilities.

What is clear is the assistant coach told Paterno.

[WKUHilltopper]

Ask them...they’ve had reason to suspect something since ‘98. And most of the early 2000s.

[HiTech RedNeck]

This is sounding like it was scripted. Mc “Queery” ??? (Even if there was nothing queer about him.)

[marktwain]

It is quite possible that several people are lying. Maybe all of them. The stakes are high, many have much to lose, many have much to gain.

There have been quite a few child abuse cases where the liars outnumbered the truth tellers.

[TornadoAlley3]

Temple, Maryland and Virginia wanted him as HC, he interviewed, but he said he would only coach there if he could bring his Second Mile with him. They said no.

[Enchante]

"No one can imagine my thoughts or wants to be in my shoes for those 30-45 seconds," McQueary said. "Trust me."

"Trust me" -- one of the most mis-used phrases to come into popular usage. No one who is really trustWORTHY needs to utter this expression -- it's only used in contexts where people are begging others to accept what is said on blind faith.

McQueary may or may not have believed that it was "enough" to report what he saw to Paterno, but it was NOT enough. Everyone associated with that incident failed the child, failed all of the other victims and potential victims, and failed our society.

[TalBlack]

“No one can imagine my thoughts or wants to be in my shoes for those 30-45 seconds,”

For the sake of the little boy you abandoned to a monster a HELL of a lot of people wish they had been in your shoes that day, you coward.

[Travis McGee]

Let’s asssume for this discussion that McQ really did go to the police with this explosive report/allegation.

They might have kicked it upstairs, and the answer coming down was, “lose the report. Keep nothing on paper.”

My point is, in this type of situation, the witness making the explosive report needs to make a detailed “record of conversation” after meeting the police. Names of everybody he talked to, names of duty officers, times, offices, everything he can remember.

Just in case the police are told to “forget” or “lose” an explosive report they would rather pretend was never made.

I learned this as a military junior officer, but I don’t expect McQ to have known to do it.

[Travis McGee]

See 37.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

Good point, Travis. The good ol’ MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD will save you. It has saved me on more than one occasion.

[Travis McGee]

Yep.