STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State campus police officers and their counterparts in State College said Wednesday that they had no record of Mike McQueary reporting an alleged sexual assault by Jerry Sandusky on a 10-year-old boy in a campus shower in 2002.
The details ran counter to McQueary’s claims in an e-mail to former teammates that was made available to The Associated Press this week.
McQueary, then a graduate assistant on the Penn State football staff, wrote in the e-mail that he had discussions with police about what he saw. In the e-mail, McQueary did not specify which police department he spoke to.
State College borough Police Chief Tom King said McQueary didn’t make a report to his department. Campus police referred questions on the Sandusky case to the university’s public-information office.
“At this point, we have no record of any police report being filed in 2002” by McQueary in connection with the Sandusky case, university spokeswoman Annemarie Mountz said, adding that police searched their records Wednesday.
The football building is on university property, so campus police would have been the most likely to respond to a police call.
Mountz also noted that the 23-page grand jury report was the state attorney general’s summary of testimony, so it’s unclear what McQueary’s full testimony was.
The news came after a new judge was assigned to handle the child-sexual-abuse charges against Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant coach whose televised defense earlier this week drew a rebuke from a lawyer for one of the accusers.
The change removed a State College judge with ties to a charity founded by Sandusky for at-risk children, The Second Mile.
Harrisburg attorney Ben Andreozzi said he represents a client who will testify against Sandusky — who is accused of abusing eight boys, some on campus, over 15 years.
“I am appalled by the fact that Mr. Sandusky has elected to re-victimize these young men at a time when they should be healing,” Andreozzi said in a statement. “He fully intends to testify that he was severely sexually assaulted by Mr. Sandusky.”
Sandusky’s lawyer, Joe Amendola, appeared with him on NBC’s “Rock Center” on Monday night and cast doubt on the evidence in the case.
“We anticipate we’re going to have at least several of those kids come forward and say, ‘This never happened. This is me. This is the allegation. It never occurred,’ ” Amendola said.
Andreozzi said he has his “finger on the pulse” of the case and knows of no accusers changing their stories or refusing to testify. “To the contrary, others are actually coming forward,” Andreozzi said.
Sandusky, 67, appeared on the show by phone and said he had showered with boys but never molested them.
Sandusky is due in court Dec. 7, and a Westmoreland County senior district judge, Robert Scott, will preside, replacing Centre County District Judge Leslie Dutchcot, who has donated money to The Second Mile, where authorities say Sandusky met his victims. Scott has no known ties to Penn State or The Second Mile.
Amendola defended the decision to have his client go on television, telling the Centre Daily Times on Wednesday the move was designed to demonstrate he had a defense.
“The more people who hear him explain that he didn’t commit the acts of which he’s been charged, the better off he’s going to be down the road,” Amendola told the newspaper.
It remains unclear how many accusers have surfaced more than a week after state police and the attorney general’s office said at a news conference they were seeking additional potential victims and witnesses.
