STATE COLLEGE -- Minutes after Mike McQueary says he stumbled upon something between Jerry Sandusky and a boy in a Penn State shower in 2002, he went to his father’s State College home seeking advice. 
 
 There, Dr. Jonathan Dranov, a family friend and colleague of McQueary’s father, sat with the then 28-year-old graduate assistant and listened to his very first account of what he had seen, a source told The Patriot-News. 
 
 According to the source with knowledge of Dranov’s testimony before the grand jury, it went like this: 
 
 McQueary heard "sex sounds" and the shower running, and a young boy stuck his head around the corner of the shower stall, peering at McQueary as an adult arm reached around his waist and pulled him back out of view. 
 
 Seconds later, Sandusky left the shower in a towel. 
 
 That account is different from the hand-written statement obtained by The Patriot-News that McQueary provided for investigators when he was interviewed in 2010. 
 
 It’s also different than the summary of his grand jury testimony in the 23-page initial grand jury presentment. 
 
 In both of those accounts, McQueary says he witnessed Sandusky sodomizing a boy as he stood with his hands against a shower wall. 
 
 McQueary says the pair turned and looked at him before he left. 
 
 However, Dranov told grand jurors that he asked McQueary three times if he saw anything sexual, and three times McQueary said no, according to the source. 
 
 Because of that response, the source says, Dranov told McQueary that he should talk to his boss, head football coach Joe Paterno, rather than police. 
 
 The next day Paterno and McQueary talked, and Paterno’s response to the conversation was widely scrutinized when the grand jury presentment was made public in November. 
 
 Paterno said graphic detail, such as rape, was never mentioned to him. But public outcry led to his firing five days after Sandusky was charged. 
 
 But more importantly than public opinion, Mike McQueary’s story is a key element to all the criminal cases involved in the Sandusky scandal. 
 
 His witness testimony was the only evidence of an assault in 2002 presented to grand jurors, and his detailed account is the reason that perjury charges were filed against two ousted Penn State officials. Both said they were told only about horseplay that made McQueary uncomfortable, while McQueary testified he told them explicit details about a rape. 
 
 Repeated attempts to reach McQueary over the past month for comment have been unsuccessful. McQueary was placed on leave after receiving death threats as a result of his testimony about allegations against Jerry Sandusky from people who believe he did not do enough to stop the alleged assault. 
 
 Friday, former Athletic Director Tim Curley and Vice President Gary Schultz will face a preliminary hearing on charges of perjury and failure to report a crime. 
 
 The case against them is dependent on the premise that McQueary’s testimony is more credible than theirs. Saturday, attorneys for Curley and Schultz issued this statement in response to Dranov’s testimony: 
 
 "We have not seen the grand jury transcript, so it would be imprudent to comment on its content. But, if this information is true, and we believe it is, it would be powerful, exculpatory evidence, and the charges against our clients should be dismissed." 
 
 His testimony might also be important on Tuesday to the case against Sandusky. 
 
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 Vowing to prove his innocence, Sandusky and his attorney, Joe Amendola, are sure to point out the inconsistencies in McQueary’s statements at a preliminary hearing in Bellefonte. Sandusky has been charged with more than 50 counts and maintained his innocence 
 
 Since charges were filed Nov. 4, several variations of McQueary’s story have come out publicly. 
 
 His grand jury testimony says he heard slapping noises and saw a boy being sodomized by Sandusky. 
 
 His hand-written statement to police says, "I did not see insertion. I am certain that sexual acts/the young boy being sodomized was occurring." He says the whole incident lasted about a minute. 
 
 In an email he sent to friends following the firing of Joe Paterno, he says "I made sure it stopped," something not mentioned in the grand jury testimony or police statement. 
 
 And now Dranov’s testimony describes a new scenario. 
 
 About two months after the incident McQueary describes in March 2002, Dranov and McQueary’s father, John, both physicians, had an unrelated meeting scheduled at Penn State with Gary Schultz, Dranov told the grand jury, according to the source. 
 
 Curious about how the story ended, Dranov inquired about what ever happened to Sandusky. 
 
 According to a source with knowledge of his testimony, Schultz told him then-university President Graham Spanier had met with Sandusky. 
 
 That’s something that isn’t mentioned in the grand jury presentment. 
 
 Spanier, who was forced to resign the same night Paterno was fired, testified before the grand jury that he had signed off on a decision to ban Sandusky from bringing children to the locker rooms in the future; however, Spanier, Curley and Schultz all deny they were ever informed a sexual assault occurred that night. 
 
 Attempts to reach Dranov were unsuccessful. 
 
 Sandusky, through Amendola, has offered yet another version of what happened in the showers. He doesn’t deny there was a boy showering with Sandusky that night, but Amendola says the child was surfing in the shower — horsing around — and never saw McQueary come into the locker room. 
 
 Instead, Amendola says, a few days later Sandusky was contacted by Curley, told that someone felt uncomfortable about what they’d seen, and Sandusky gave the name and phone number of the boy to Curley to help clear up the situation. 
 
 The grand jury report points out that no effort was made to contact the boy. 
 
 
 
 

 Curley and Schultz have testified they were told about "horseplay" that McQueary said made him feel uncomfortable. McQueary says he told them graphic details about a sexual assault. 
 
 As previously reported, McQueary told a friend in an email that he stopped the alleged rape and discussed it with police, something a source familiar with the state's investigation confirmed to ESPN's Tom Rinaldi. 
 
 McQueary testified that after witnessing the alleged assault, he left the building, called his father and the next day told Paterno what he saw. 
 
 Penn State assistant Mike McQueary told a grand jury and police that he saw former Nittany Lions assistant Jerry Sandusky sexually assaulting a young boy in the showers of the team's football facility in 2002.But he reportedly told a family friend a different account of the incident shortly after it happened. The (Harrisburg) Patriot-News reports that McQueary told Dr. Jonathan Dranov, a family friend and a colleague of his father's, that he heard "sex sounds" and a running shower before a young boy peered around the corner of a shower stall. An adult's arm then reached around the boy's waist and pulled him out of view. Sandusky walked out of the shower moments later.A source with knowledge of Dranov's testimony before the grand jury relayed his account to the Patriot-News. Dranov testified that he spoke to McQueary shortly after McQueary witnessed the alleged incident, and advised McQueary that because he hadn't personally witnessed an assault, he should report the incident to his superiors at Penn State but not the police.The version differs with those from McQueary's statement to police and the summary of his testimony in the grand jury presentment . In both of those accounts, McQueary said he witnessed Sandusky sodomizing a boy of about 10 years old in the shower.This is a significant development, as McQueary's testimony played a key role in the perjury charges against former Penn State athletic director Tim Curley and ex-vice president Gary Schultz. It also raised questions about what McQueary told former Penn State head coach Joe Paterno, who claims he was never told about a rape or molestation when McQueary came to him the day after the alleged incident.Paterno's response to the situation came under intense scrutiny after Sandusky was charged last month, and eventually led to the Paterno's firing by the school's board of trustees.While Sandusky has many more problems to worry about, the cases against Curley and Schultz could come down to the credibility of McQueary's testimony. McQueary and Paterno both don't face criminal charges, but their responses to what they saw or what they were told have been major parts of this story.
– The witness whose account of the now-infamous shower encounter sits at the center of the Penn State child abuse case has changed his story over the years, according to the Patriot-News. Much of the case against Jerry Sandusky hinges on former assistant coach Mike McQueary's report that he saw Sandusky raping a boy in the showers in 2002. But in grand jury testimony, McQueary family friend Dr. Jonathan Dranov says that just after the alleged incident, McQueary explained the situation in less certain terms, an insider says. Dranov was at McQueary's father's home when the then-28-year-old showed up looking for advice: According to the source, McQueary said that he had heard "sex sounds" and saw a boy look out of the shower before being pulled back by an adult arm; within seconds, a towel-clad Sandusky exited the shower. The source says Dranov testified that McQueary three times told him he had not seen any sexual contact; Dranov thus advised McQueary to tell Joe Paterno about the incident rather than police. That account doesn't match McQueary's own grand jury testimony, which is the basis for the perjury case against two Penn State officials. It also casts new light on Joe Paterno's assertion that he was never told explicit details of a rape, notes ESPN. (Meanwhile, more child abuse allegations are emerging among other sporting officials.)