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(CBS/AP) STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Both Penn State's campus police and the State College police department say they never received reports from a then-Penn State graduate assistant related to an allegation of child sexual abuse against former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.


Mike McQueary wrote in an email to a friend that was made available to The Associated Press that he had discussions with police after he said he witnessed a 10- or 11-year-old boy being raped in the Penn State locker room in 2002. McQueary testified in a grand jury investigation that led to authorities charging Sandusky with abusing eight boys over 15 years.


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McQueary email: I did go to the police


In the email, McQueary did not specify which police department he spoke to.


But a spokesperson for Penn State's campus police told CBS News that they never received a sex abuse report from McQueary. Separately, State College Police Chief Thomas R. King told CBS News that his department has no record of ever being contacted by McQueary regarding allged sex abuse.


The university also has its own police force. Penn State administrators said they were looking into whether McQueary contacted campus police. A university official also told CBS News Tuesday that, to her knowledge, no police report was filed.


The Nov. 8 email from McQueary to a friend said: "I did stop it, not physically ... but made sure it was stopped when I left that locker room ... I did have discussions with police and with the official at the university in charge of police .... no one can imagine my thoughts or wants to be in my shoes for those 30-45 seconds ... trust me."


McQueary is a former player and current assistant coach who was placed on indefinite paid leave last week after school officials said he had received threats. Emails sent to him seeking comment were not immediately returned.



He told the friend that he felt he was "getting hammered for handling this the right way ... or what I thought at the time was right ... I had to make tough impacting quick decisions."


Speaking publicly for the first time Tuesday, McQueary told CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian that his emotions were "all over the place" and he was "just kind of shaken." But he wouldn't comment further on the scandal, saying "the whole process has to play out. I just don't have anything else to say."


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The grand jury report issued Nov. 5, the day Sandusky was charged with 40 criminal counts for alleged sexual abuse against eight boys over 15 years, goes into considerable detail about the March 2002 incident. McQueary was putting sneakers into his locker late on a Friday night when, the jury said, he saw Sandusky having sex with a young boy.


He left, "distraught," and contacted his father and then head coach Joe Paterno, jurors said. McQueary later met with athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz to describe what he had seen, the grand jury said. Curley and Schultz are charged with not alerting authorities to the report and lying to the grand jury. Paterno lost his job last week, but has not been charged and is not considered a target of investigators, state prosecutors have said.


As a result of the scandal, Curley and Schultz have left their posts, and university president Graham Spanier was also forced out of his job. U.S. Steel said Tuesday Spanier has resigned from its board, where he had been a director since 2008.


On Monday night, Sandusky said in an NBC television interview that he showered with and "horsed around" with boys but was innocent of criminal charges, a statement that has stunned legal observers. Sandusky's comments, they said, could be used by prosecutors trying to convict him of child sex-abuse charges.

The entire campus suffers from a conspiracy of cowards. Cowards change their stories, lie and generally will try to deflect blame to anyone but themselves.

Blame starts with Sandusky, McQueary, Paterno, athletic director, VP, President....and chit rolls down hill. In the end Sandusky takes the brunt of it as he should. McQueary sold his soul to the devil to keep a job and will never be able to find another one now. Paterno and the others did the same.

Now the sins have come home to roost....

I wonder if there ever was a real, written report based on his complaint or if they just said "we'll check into it," called someone at PSU who said "we took care of it" and they let it drop.

If that happened, then sure ... there's no "report."

Lies, cover-ups, CYA maneuvers. All of it stinks.

The prosecution needs McQueary now though because he's a key witness.

I believe when it's over, the depth of the offenses, who knew and the cover-ups will be staggering.

I smell the horrible stench of a longterm, massive coverup. It goes beyond JoePa, beyond the campus police. This is going to get really, really ugly.

Yesterday the press said that an additional 10 boys had come forward. Last week they said an additional 10 or so had come forward. Is the number 18 or 28 thus far? I know lawsuits will soon start, how will the kids prove their claims?

I don't know if there is a way for any of them to prove anything. I also don't know that they can successfully sue to get any recompense. However, JoPa started moving assets a few months ago according to the report I heard this morning.

Ultimately the university allowed him to hang around and covered it up from top to bottom. I think they will suffer the most from litigation.

The ultimate goal for law enforcement is to lock him away for the rest of his hopefully shortened life.

Unfortunately I think we will still be talking about this a year from now. Shucks this deep stinks to high hell and takes a long time to dig through.