A very slow process for sure, but enough time has passed for brave people to speak up and uncover the truth
This entire case appears to be an all or nothing proposition. Because the only non-victim eyewitness in the entire case against Sandusky (a then-graduate assistant coach named Mike McQueary) apparently claimed in the grand jury to have heard/seen a rape, there are only two reasonable scenarios: either there was indeed a cover-up at Penn State, or McQueary’s story is not true.
Due to the extreme lack of ambiguity in that heinous accusation, it is seems impossible to believe that there was a miscommunication among so many people of such stature and accomplishment.
While I am not an expert on the case against Sandusky, I am informed that no actual victim testified to the McQueary allegation. Given the extreme amount of publicity that the story generated and the other unique circumstances of the case, it seems highly suspicious that no actual victim was found or ever came forward.
I don’t know what really happened that night in 2001 (McQueary originally testified to the wrong date, month and year of the episode). I do however believe that the entire story as it was portrayed in the media doesn’t make sense. Even the jury, which convicted Sandusky on 45 counts, found him not guilty on the McQueary rape allegation.
It cannot be overstated how much, if the McQueary story is not true, this dramatically destroys the case against Paterno and Penn State. It also is potentially devastating to the case against Sandusky.
While the media and public have accepted that the sheer number of accusers against Sandusky is certain proof that he is guilty, if the McQueary episode didn’t happen the way we were originally told, then the original foundation for
why all those accusers were immediately believed could completely erode.
Without McQueary, there appears to be no direct non-victim witness against Sandusky. That is particularly important in a case with zero physical evidence and not even one shred of pornography.
Without McQueary, all that really remains would be inconsistent testimony from men who ended up receiving (or are still pursuing) millions of dollars from Penn State.
Judging from the dramatic increase in grand jury activity following McQueary’s testimony, it is almost certain that investigators used McQueary’s story to convince new accusers to come forward. The prospect of huge financial settlements from Penn State looming from very early on in the case could have easily incentivized testimony in a way few, if any, cases like this have ever seen.