Mike McQueary: Coward!

That over there is Penn State Assistant Football Coach Mike McQueary. This is the man that watched a 10-year-old boy being raped by a naked 58-year-old man in a shower and did nothing to stop it. He simply walked away.

After leaving the man to finish with the boy, he called his own father and asked him what he should do. His daddy gave him the awesome advice to call Joe Paterno, noted Special Victims Unit investigator.

He says he told Paterno everything he saw that night in specific detail. He doesn't say whether Paterno asked him why he didn't intervene to save the boy from the clutches of a child rapist. He says he told two Penn State administrators every detail of what happened. Maybe he did.

But if he did, why didn't he resign his position in disgrace for having failed to do rescue that kid? Why did he go on for years, keeping his mouth shut about what he saw in that locker room that night? Why did he let a man he knew to be a pedophile go on for years finding new victims, new young boys, to get his hands on. Was he afraid? Of what?

This Saturday he will be at Beaver Stadium, a member of the Penn State Football coaching staff. Paterno's gone, fired. The others, the athletic director and the school VP are gone too. They are charged with perjury, based primarily on the word of Mike McQueary. And the pedophile, he's out on bail.

But McQueary will be at the big game. He will not be on the sidelines, however, because the Board of Trustees say they fear for his safety. Imagine that! His safety!

It seems the board is doing a whole lot more to protect Mike McQueary than he ever did to protect that little kid in the shower back in 2002.

How he's been able to look at himself in the mirror these last nine years, knowing what he didn't do, is quite amazing. Knowing what a macho fraud he is. It's so pathetic, it's almost hard not to feel sorry for him.

Almost.

UPDATE: Late word is that McQueary has been advised to take Saturday off. That's good advice. Finally, at least a few people in Happy Valley are coming to their senses.

UPDATE II: In a statement, Penn State said, "Due to multiple threats made against Assistant Coach Mike McQueary, the University has decided it would be in the best interest of all for Assistant Coach McQueary not to be in attendance at Saturday's Nebraska game."

Making anonymous threats against anyone is a lame and cowardly thing to do. Not as cowardly as what McQueary did. But wrong and cowardly just the same.