Advocates have called for charges againt Paterno What about McQueary While Joe Paterno was not accused of legal wrongdoing by the grand jury 7 advocates for sexual abuse victims have called for charges to be brought against him for not contacting the police himself What I don t understand What about McQueary If you call for charges against someone for not reporting a crime after a witness tells you about it then surely the witness is guilty of the same thing I would even argue that the witness has a higher obligation because the witness really saw something bad happened whereas the person who gets told by the witness has not witnessed anything and only has the allegations of the witness Are there reasons why Paterno is targeted and not McQueary Or is information about McQueary just not used by the media because talking about Paterno has a higher impact because of his position Does anybody know I wonder why you would even have to call for charges against McQueary I would assume that witnessing a crime without reporting especially a crime like this would be punishable by more than a slap on the wrist