McQueary takes the stand in Sandusky trial

MSNBC's Thomas Roberts and NBC News' John Yang discuss an emotional second day of testimony in the sex abuse trial of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

By Kim Kaplan, NBC News, and M. Alex Johnson, msnbc.com

Updated at 1:57 p.m. ET: Michael McQueary, who told investigators he thought he saw former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky sexually assaulting a boy in the team's showers, was called to the stand Tuesday afternoon in Sandusky's child sexual abuse trial.

Hannah Rappleye and Tom Winter of NBC News contributed to this report by Kim Kaplan of NBC News and M. Alex Johnson of msnbc.com. Follow M. Alex Johnson on Twitter and Facebook.

McQueary, 37 ? a key witness whose testimony has been characterized as varying and hard to reconcile ? was on the prosecution's witness list but wasn't expected to testify until Wednesday at the earliest.

Sandusky, 68, denies all 52 counts alleging that he abused 10 boys over 15 years. Two grand jury reports accused him of having used his connection to one of the nation's premier college football programs to "groom" the boys, whom he met through his Second Mile charity for troubled children, for sexual relationships.

---

McQueary first told a grand jury that the alleged incident took place in March 2002. The state attorney general's office, which is prosecuting the case, says the evidence shows that the incident actually occurred on Feb. 9, 2001 ? more than a year earlier.

Sandusky's trial entered its second day Tuesday in a Bellefonte, Pa., courtroom, with testimony from the 18-year-old man identified in court papers as "Victim 1." The Central Mountain High School student previously told a grand jury that Sandusky had abused him for years at his home, during trips and even on high school property, where Sandusky was a volunteer coach.

During the first day of his sexual-abuse trial, an alleged victim of Jerry Sandusky testified Monday about "horsing around" that he said eventually turned into five years of sexual abuse. NBC's Michael Isikoff reports from Bellefonte, Pa.

Although Sandusky's accusers are being identified by name in court, NBC News and msnbc.com do not identify the victims of alleged sexual assaults.

Full coverage of the Jerry Sandusky trial

The young man testified that he stayed overnight at Sandusky's house more than 100 times in 2005 and 2006.

"At first, it was ? he would kiss me on the forehead good night, and then it ? then it came to him kissing me on the cheek, then rubbing my back, then pulling me on top of him and rubbing my back," the young man said, pausing a couple times to collect himself.

Eventually, the behavior progressed to "back massages, hand down the back of my shorts ? the same thing, except this time he, he sat there and looked at me and said something along the lines of 'it's your turn,' and he, he made me, he made me put my mouth on his privates," the man continued, by now crying openly and wiping his face.

That started when he was "close to going onto 13," he said.

Former prosecutors Kendall Coffey and Star Jones discuss the first day of Jerry Sandusky's sexual abuse trial and whether defense attorneys will advise Sandusky to take the stand.

Like alleged victim No. 4, who opened the testimony Monday, the young man said he felt he couldn't seek help because he was embarrassed and feared that his mother "might not believe me."

"There was a million thoughts running around my mind, and I couldn't tell anybody," he said.

Once the young man entered high school, Sandusky ? who volunteered as a football coach there ? would sometimes have him pulled out class for visits in a school conference room, he said. On one occasion, he alleged, Sandusky even followed his school bus so he could intercept him on the way home to demand an explanation for why the young man was avoiding him.

The experience was so traumatic, he said, that "I acted out. I started wetting the bed. I got into fights with people and stuff I would never normally do."

Afterward, Jessica Dershem, a case worker with Clinton County Children and Youth Services, testified that she had interviewed the young man and had concluded that there was enough evidence to suspect sexual abuse.

Dershem said she set up an interview with Sandusky, who acknowledged that he intercepted the young man on his way home on the school bus to ask him why he hadn't shown up for a Second Mile event.

She then asked him about physical contact, she said. Sandusky, who was accompanied by an attorney, "admitted to blowing raspberries on his stomach, laying on him to crack his back" ? which the young man said was a wrestler's way to loosen the back muscles ? and "rubbing his back." She said Sandusky couldn't recall whether his hand went under the boy's pants but insisted that he never had any sexual contact or "intent."

The trial before a jury of seven women and five men heard opened Monday in Centre County Court, culminating months of breathless coverage that led to the firing of head coach Joe Paterno, who won more games than any other major college football coach in history, many of them with Sandusky at his side.

Paterno died in January, a few weeks after he was dismissed for having failed to report Sandusky's alleged abuse.

Accuser says Sandusky treated him like 'girlfriend' in graphic encounters

The first of eight accusers ? identified as alleged victim No. 4 ? testified Monday, saying he endured more than 40 "very uncomfortable" incidents involving Sandusky during a two-year period when he was 12 and 13 years old.

Disturbing details emerged at the sexual abuse trial of former assistant Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky. During the emotional testimony, the first witness who was identified in court documents as 'Victim 4,' said he was a teenager when the abuse began. NBC's John Yang reports.

In rides in his car, Sandusky would put the man's hand on his knee, "basically like I was his girlfriend," which he said "freaked me out."

NBC: Former Penn State president could face charges in Sandusky case

"I could not stand it, and it happened almost every time I was in the car" with Sandusky, he said.

The witness said under cross-examination that he regretted not having come forward earlier. Had he done so, he said, he might not feel responsible "for these other victims being molested."

In his opening statement, Amendola painted the eight alleged victims as troubled youths out for a big payday in court.

More content from msnbc.com and NBC News:

Follow US News on msnbc.com on Twitter and Facebook

jennifer nettles jennifer nettles giants vs saints suh suh lindsey vonn lindsey vonn