It is 100% clear to me that McQueary was worried about HIS career and nothing else.

[Logical]

I have thought through all this many times and it is obvious this coward worried that if he turned in Sandusky he might lose his job and his future at Penn State. There is no other reason to not talk to the police about this. No other reason not to wonder why, a week later, the police have not been called and then call them himself.
He was worried about his future. Which is about as shallow and disgusting as you can get.
This man deserves to never work in football again. I doubt he ever lost a nights sleep over this.

[Raven]

1. The apple didn't fall very far from the tree...Dad's advice didn't help.n/t

[Logical]

2. Great point! I know the advice most fathers would give their son. n-t

[golddigger]

3. Another thing to consider is that to this day, no one knows

who the 10 year old is. McQreary and his daddy sat on this all night and not once worried if sandusky could have slaughtered this kid. This is what I find chilling about all this.

[CatWoman]

4. I certainly agree with that

as the average person, when seeing something like that, would immediately put a stop to it and kick that monster's ass.

[Logical]

8. I agree. Maybe not the rational thing to do but understandable. n-t

[rocktivity]

12. He had THREE chances to do the right thing

1) Stop the attack

2) Go directly to Paterno

3) Blow the whistle when he realized that the higherups had initiated a coverup and effectively called him a liar about what he'd told them

And if he had any class at all, what he'd do now is:

4) Turn in his resignation

5) Sing like Pavoratti in court


:headbang:
rocktivity

P.S. Did you see the annual "DU Vets" thread?

[dkf]

5. Personally I think he just freaked out and tried to avoid the issue further.

I remember seeing a car crash once coming the opposite way from me. It was just a fender bender, but to this day I still feel like I ought to have made myself available as a witness.

In a way, once McCreary walked out and left, it was a done deal. The only way you find the kid is if Sandusky self incriminates.

[Raven]

6. He may have "just freaked out" but he had the presence of mind

to go to his father and his father did not do the right thing. On your theory, I guess about everybody involved in this "freaked out."

[CatWoman]

7. Raven

I've read posts from people who immediately stepped in and saved animals from being abused.

I suppose it boils down to what in one's heart :(

[Raven]

9. I know, it's very sad. It was not just this one guy and his father,

it was a whole slew of people in responsible positions up and down the line.

[dkf]

Exactly. I would say it goes against our instinct to bring it up or people would have.

[dkf]

13. Some of it goes to instinct, but not all which is why we teach people how they should react.

All training on how to react in certain situations goes to the fact that not everyone reacts in the way they ought to.

Teachers have been trained to follow up on bruises for example. They are taught to question first and to be alert to the possibility of abuse.

[peacebird]

10. Could be that he had been molested as a child? Hence was paralyzed in a way?

Memories of traumatic events like that have a powerful influence, sometimes not even consciously.... Just a thought?

[mzteris]

14. how old is this guy?

How old was he in 2002? Maybe he was a victim of the same perp?

That could be the only "excuse" for freezing - maybe. Traumatic response. Initially. But to participate in the cover-up all these years? Nah. . .

Even my 13 yo said he'd have "kicked that old guy's butt" if he saw something like that happening.

[gordianot]

11. When I was nine we saw a car crash on the highway circa 1963 it was on fire.

You could see people getting out with flaming clothes no one stopped. There was a long line of cars they did not stop. To this day I am haunted by this sight. When I was four I remember two white teenagers beating up a nine year old African American child in Little Rock walking to school, his books were scattered on the side walk we drove by and did not stop. To this day it is a clear memory. When it came my turn I stop, my children know I will stop.