No, the alarm wasn't sounded until six years later, when a high school student courageously went to his principal and said he was victimized by Sandusky. He is referred to in the grand jury summary as Victim No. 1, not because he was the first to be victimized but because he was the first to come forward.
As a result, there is now a total of 10 alleged victims and 50 charges of abuse pending against Sandusky. (And if the allegations are true, it strains credulity to believe there are only 10 victims.)
But where would we be without Victim No. 1?
That's what I kept thinking while reading minute-by-minute tweets last Friday on the preliminary hearing for former athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz.
As everyone now knows, McQueary saw something on that Friday night. He told head coach Joe Paterno the next day. Paterno then reported to Curley, and subsequently McQueary met with Curley and Schultz - a meeting McQueary said lasted only 10 to 12 minutes. So what did McQueary say?
Last Friday, he testified that he told Curley and Schultz: "What I had seen was extremely sexual, extremely wrong," according to the media reports. (No transcript has yet been published.)
"I would have said that Jerry was in there in very close proximity with a boy with his arms wrapped around him," McQueary said, according to the Harrisburg Patriot-News. "I would have said that it was extremely sexual and that some type of intercourse was going on."
Thomas Harmon, a Penn State campus policeman, testified that he had told Schultz about an alleged incident involving Sandusky in 1998.
John McQueary, father of Mike, also took the stand, testifying that Schultz told him in 2002 that there had been other allegations involving Sandusky, but that investigators never came up with anything they could "sink teeth into."
