Lawsuit by ex-coach against Penn State set to get underway
BELLEFONTE, Pa. — It’s not Penn State’s fault that a former assistant football coach who reported Jerry Sandusky sexually abusing a boy 15 years ago can’t find a new coaching job, a lawyer for the university said Monday.
Nancy Conrad said during opening statements in Mike McQueary’s defamation and whistleblower lawsuit that because he spent his entire career at Penn State, he hasn’t developed the network of contacts needed to find a new position.
She told the jury that McQueary was put on leave after Sandusky’s arrest out of safety concerns and says it’s national media and public opinion that have ruined him.
Those reports, she said, were “centred on Mr. McQueary’s decision to leave a young boy in the shower with Jerry Sandusky.”