Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary never mentioned that he talked to police in 2002 after witnessing an alleged sexual assault by Jerry Sandusky of a young boy, according to a hand-written statement McQueary gave to police during the recent grand jury investigation.



The Patriot-News has viewed a copy of the statement and verified it through a source close to the investigation.





In it, McQueary states that he witnessed a boy, about 10, being sodomized in a shower and hurried out of the locker room. He does not mention

in the following days, the statement says.

The whole incident, the statement says, lasted about a minute, and McQueary wrote that he would not recognize the boy if he saw him today.

McQueary does say in the police statement that he talked to his father, to Joe Paterno, and to Athletic Director Tim Curley and Vice President Gary Schultz.

In an email obtained this week by The Patriot-News, McQueary wrote of the alleged assault: "I did stop it, not physically ... but made sure it was stopped when I left that locker room."

And then he wrote that he did tell police, not just Joe Paterno, Curley and Schultz. "... I did have discussions with police and with the official at the university in charge of police .... no one can imagine my thoughts or wants to be in my shoes for those 30-45 seconds ... trust me."



The statement, not the email, syncs with the summary of McQueary's grand jury testimony, as it's written in

that led to 40 counts of child sex abuse being filed against Sandusky.

Because grand jurors found McQueary to be more credible than Schultz and Curley,

. McQueary testified that he explicitly told the men what he'd witnessed, and the men say his statement amounted to nothing criminal.

Sandusky's attorney told NBC news this week that even though prosecutors claim they haven't found the victim in this case, Sandusky's defense team talked to him and he denies that anything wrong happened in that shower.