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A key witness in the case against Jerry Sandusky told a family friend a different version of events surrounding the former Penn State assistant coach's alleged shower rape of a 10-year-old boy than the one he later delivered to a grand jury, The Harrisburg Patriot-News reported.
Mike McQueary apparently told his friend Dr. Jonathan Dranov at the time that he did not actually see the alleged 2002 assault.
The newspaper said McQueary, then graduate assistant at Penn State, told Dranov that he heard "sex sounds" and a running shower before a young boy peered around the corner of the shower's stall.
McQueary said he then saw an adult arm reach around the boy's waist and pull him out of view, before Sandusky emerged from the stall in a towel seconds later.
But McQueary, who has gone on to become an assistant coach with the program, later went on record as saying that he witnessed what he believed to be a rape.
Dranov apparently contradicted that claim in his testimony to the grand jury, The Patriot-Times claims, citing an unnamed source.
Dranov reportedly confirmed that McQueary denied three times seeing anything sexual in the shower. Dranov said he therefore advised McQueary to pass on his account to then-head football coach Joe Paterno, but not to contact police.
Dranov's testimony will be weighed by a judge at a preliminary hearing in Bellefonte, Pa., on Tuesday as he decides if the 52-count case against Sandusky involving 10 alleged victims should proceed to trial.
Sandusky has maintained his innocence in the case.
