Report: Ex-Penn State assistant Mike McQueary said he was victim of child abuse

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED: …Players told ESPN The Magazine that [former Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary] said that he empathized with Sandusky’s victims because he had also been abused as a child. The revelations are included in an upcoming ESPN The Magazine profile of McQueary, an important witness in the upcoming trial of three former Penn State officials…

McQueary’s meeting with Penn State receivers was held on Nov. 9, 2011, just three days after prosecutors revealed, in a 23-page presentment, that McQueary had seen Sandusky and a young boy engaged in “anal intercourse” in the Lasch Football Building on campus on Feb. 9, 2001…

The ESPN The Magazine story also discusses the ways in which defense lawyers plan to question McQueary’s testimony, including allegations of inconsistencies in his statements about the alleged abuse he witnessed in 2001… (more)

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