McQueary says he stopped Sandusky from sex abuse

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. —

Penn State University assistant football coach Mike McQueary, who said he saw Jerry Sandusky sexually assault a young boy in a Penn State shower, said in an email he stopped the alleged assault and told police exactly what he saw.

Tuesday, he made his first public comment in a very brief interview with CBS News.

The reporter asked: “Do you have any idea when you think you might be ready to talk?”

McQueary said, “This process has to play out. I just don’t have anything else to say, at all.”

The reporter asked: “Just one last thing, just describe your emotions right now.”

“Uh, all over the place; just kind of, uh, shaken,” said McQueary.

In the meantime, Pennsylvania’s governor said McQueary did not meet what the governor called “a moral obligation” to intervene.

According to a grand jury presentment, McQueary had said he saw the retired Penn State defensive coordinator sexually assaulting a boy in a shower at a campus football facility almost a decade ago. McQueary had told the grand jury he was distraught and later told head coach Joe Paterno what he saw.

Sandusky has maintained his innocence.

Gov. Tom Corbett said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that the attorney general clearly had decided that McQueary “met the minimum obligation” of reporting but “did not in my opinion meet a moral obligation.”

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