Mike McQueary wins civil case against Penn State, awarded $7.3 million in damages
BELLEFONTE - Former Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary, tagged early as a villain in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case, got a large measure of vindication Thursday.
An eight-woman, four-man jury found Penn State guilty of defamation and misrepresentation in its handling of McQueary's eyewitness report against Sandusky in 2001, and ordered the payment of $7.3 million in damages.
It is believed to be one of the largest civil verdicts in the Centre County's history.
McQueary, who's been unemployed as a football coach since he was placed on leave by Penn State several days after Sandusky's November 2011 arrest, snapped his head down and stared at the courtroom floor as the jury forewoman delivered the jury's decision.
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