PITTSBURGH _ In court documents unsealed Tuesday, former Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary alleges that two high-profile former Penn State assistants _ Tom Bradley and Greg Schiano _ were aware of sexual abuse allegations against former Penn State assistant Jerry Sandusky.
Common Pleas Judge Gary S. Glazer made the documents public Tuesday morning, acting on a request by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Philadelphia Inquirer and other media outlets. The records had been filed during the university's ongoing legal fight with its insurer over who should cover the costs of the millions of dollars Penn State has paid to end claims tied to Sandusky.
According to court documents, McQueary testified that he informed Bradley, a Penn State assistant for more than three decades, that he had witnessed Sandusky abusing a child and that Bradley was "not shocked."
McQueary testified that sometime during the mid-2000s, Bradley told him that he "knew some things," through people coming to him and disclosing that they witnessed similar situations with Sandusky arising in the early 1980s and the early 1990s.
McQueary said Bradley told him that Schiano came into Bradley's office "white as a ghost," and he "just saw Jerry (Sandusky) doing something to a boy in the shower."
McQueary said Bradley did not tell him whether he ever reported either allegation from the 1980s or 1990s to anyone, according to documents.
Schiano, who went on to coach Rutgers and the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers, is the defensive coordinator at Ohio State. He denied on Tuesday that he ever witnessed what McQueary alleged.
"I never saw any abuse, nor had reason to suspect any abuse, during my time at Penn State," Schiano told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
Bradley, now defensive coordinator at UCLA, denied any knowledge of allegations against Sandusky stemming from the 1980s or 1990s, noting that he only became aware of a 2001 incident after it had already been reported to Penn State administration.
"At no time did Tom Bradley ever witness any inappropriate behavior," Bradley's representative Brett Senior said in a statement released Tuesday afternoon. "Nor did he have any knowledge of alleged incidents in the 80's and 90's. He has consistently testified as such. Any assertions to the contrary are false."
The deposition also revealed, through the prosecution's questioning, that former Penn State assistant Fran Ganter testified that Bradley had verbally complained about Sandusky being permitted at Penn State's facilities.
McQueary testified that this was true, and that both he and Bradley were indeed frustrated by Sandusky's presence and would complain about it to each other.
