Former Penn State coach files 4 million dollar lawsuit against school (ethical, attorney)

[KUchief25]

This guy sees a kid raped, does nothing and now wants 4 million bucks. I think I've seen it all now.

"Former Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary, a key witness in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse trial in June, has filed a civil suit against the university. He is seeking at least $4 million for damages and lost future earnings. In the suit, filed Tuesday at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa., the damages in question are described as “distress, anguish, humiliation and embarrassment.”
McQueary was (and continues to be) something of a polarizing figure in what became the worst scandal in the history of college athletics. Outside of the victims, he was the only eyewitness to alleged sexual abuse who testified against Sandusky. A former PSU football coach himself, Sandusky was convicted on 45 counts of sex abuse against boys and will be sentenced next Tuesday.
As a graduate assistant coach at Penn State in 2001, McQueary entered a locker room in the Lasch Football Building on campus only to discover Sandusky in the shower with a boy. Nobody — not even Sandusky — has disputed that.
However, McQueary testified that Sandusky and the boy were having sex, and that he reported the incident to his supervisor — head football coach Joe Paterno — the next day. He said he told athletic director Tim Curley and school vice president Gary Schultz of the incident about 10 days later.
None of the school officials reported the incident to the police.
Paterno, who died of lung cancer in January, previously admitted to a grand jury that McQueary told him something “of a sexual nature” happened between Sandusky and the boy.
Curley and Schultz, who are both facing perjury charges for allegedly lying to the grand jury investigating the Sandusky case, claim McQueary never told them anything sexual happened between Sandusky and the boy.
McQueary became a full-time coach at Penn State in 2004. He never discussed the matter with law enforcement officials until investigators from the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office approached him in November of 2010. He later testified before the grand jury. "



Scout.com: McQueary Seeks $4 Million From Penn State

[banjomike]

Since the article states McQuery is a former assistant coach, it sound to me like he has paid the whistle-blower's price.

Since Sandusky is not the first coach ever to have been caught out in molestation and left alone afterwards, there is a distinct possibility that other head coaches have done the same things as Paterno. It seems possible, then, that McQueary might actually face the possibility of never being hired as a collegiate coach again.

Did he do the right thing or the wrong thing? If you, as a moral, upright, courageous person did the same thing and got fired for it, would you be content to just walk away and call it bygones? I don't think so, if your entire career just hit a brick wall at 90 mph from another's wrong doing. Not your wrongdoing. You did the right thing, did you not?
And you would be in the right to seek damages if you didn't decide to just walk away.

Once McQueary did the right thing and no response came from his superiors, would you have continued to blow the whistle? We all know what happens to those who do; they are never met with cheers and approval, and a big promotion, are they?

Nope. All that ever happens is they're fired faster and the cover-up just goes deeper.

Penn State paid a heavy athletic price, but they still owe an equally heavy ethical price to those who were wronged, and the assistant coach was just as wronged as the victims of the molestation. It is right and just that the institution pays up.

Or would you rather shoot the former President and everyone else of the Regents who knew and did nothing instead? Unfortunately, that would be against the law, but that's the way a civilized society is. We make offenders, whether people or institutions, pay money instead of executing the people and tearing down the institution and salting the earth on which it stood.

[thecoalman]

The reason McQuery gets no sympathy is he saw a boy being sexually assaulted and didn't take immediate actions. If what I have read is correct this is not something you take to the coach, you separate the boy from the assailant and call the police.

[crone]

The coalman is correct. That guy should have been screaming bloody murder, while he decked Sandusky. He was more concerned about his job than the safety of the kids.

What has happened to our collective moral compass?

[no1brownsfan]

Originally Posted by crone

The coalman is correct. That guy should have been screaming bloody murder, while he decked Sandusky. He was more concerned about his job than the safety of the kids.

What has happened to our collective moral compass?

It does seem today that everything is a**backwards! Bad is good. Good is bad, ect...ect...

[SoCalbound12]

Yeah he blew the whistle...about a decade too late. He shouldn't get a damn penny because he saw a monster in action and sat on that information until it was too late.