Police Transcript Reveals JoePa Knew It Wasn't "Horseplay"

Documentary filmmaker and author John Ziegler might be a hero to Penn State truthers, but even the Paterno's want nothing to do with him. And for good reason, considering he tried dropping victim's names on news shows before (temporarily) naming the shower victim on his own website. But now he's probably blown a hole through one of the most common Paterno defenses in his recently published book, The Betrayal of Joe Paterno (available in pdf on his website). He includes the transcript of an October 2011 police interview with Paterno that's supposed to prove his innocence. Instead, it reveals Paterno knew the now-infamous shower incident was of a "sexual nature:"

SASSANO: Did Mike McQueary, some years ago, come to you, report to you an incident that he observed in the shower between Jerry Sandusky and another individual most likely a young boy.
J. PATERNO: Yes he did.
SASSANO: Okay, and can you tell me what Mike McQueary told you please.
J. PATERNO: Mike McQueary came and said he was in the shower and that Jerry Sandusky was in the shower with another person, a younger, how young I don’t know and Mike never mentioned it, that there was some inappropriate sexual activity going on. We didn’t get in to what the inappropriate action was, but it was inappropriate. And that’s how I knew about it.
SASSANO: So he did not elaborate to you what this sexual activity was, only that he witnessed some sexual activity between Sandusky and a young boy?
J. PATERNO: Well he, well he, to be frank with you it was a long time ago, but I think as I recall he said something about touching.
SASSANO: Touching?
J. PATERNO: Touching.. whatever you want to call them, privates, whatever it is.
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SASSANO: Okay, the key element is, do you remember if you told Mr. Curley whether in person or over the phone, that McQueary witnessed a sexual incident between Sandusky and a boy?
J. PATERNO: To my knowledge yes I think Tim was aware of the fact that Mike had been a.. had seen this inappropriate action.
SASSANO: Sexual action?
J. PATERNO: Well yea, I guess you’d call it sexual. I don’t .. he had a, yea.

Besides the four times in this interview, Paterno also used the term "sexual activity" in his grand jury testimony. Most JoePa defenders insist he thought it was "horseplay," and even the Paterno's own report claimed he could not understand what McQueary told him.
Classic Zeigs. Next thing you know, he's going to reveal JoePa had every episode of Love Boat on Blue Ray.
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