That was part of McQueary's 2-hour testimony yesterday at a preliminary hearing in Dauphin County Court for two former PSU officials charged with covering up the child-sex scandal that led to their firing and the dismissal of iconic head coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier.
Now, following yesterday's 4 1/2-hour-plus hearing, former athletic director Tim Curley and former PSU senior vice president Gary Schultz are headed to trial on charges that they lied to a state grand jury and failed to report a crime against a child.
Sandusky, on Tuesday, waived his own preliminary hearing on charges he sexually abused 10 boys. He also is headed to trial.
Yesterday, the red-haired McQueary, a State College native, former PSU quarterback and current assistant coach - the linchpin of the case against Sandusky, et al - was unshakable on the stand.
He said he told Paterno, without being explicit "out of respect" for the coach, that he witnessed a sexual act. He said he told Curley and Schultz that he saw Sandusky being "extremely sexual" with the boy.
Paterno, he said, slumped in his chair, was "shocked and saddened," and told him, "I need to think . . . [and] tell some people what you saw."
Curley and Schultz, McQueary said, told him they'd investigate.
So, despite reports that McQueary's story isn't always consistent because of emails to friends or statements to others, he stuck to his sworn grand-jury testimony and could not be shaken by defense attorneys arguing for Curley and Schultz.
He was asked if he had been drinking that Friday night in 2002. "No," he said. He was asked if Sandusky had an erection. "I don't know," he said.
He was asked if the boy had pubic hair. "I don't think," he said.
