Penn State deposition reveals UCLA DC Bradley knew about Sandusky sexual abuse

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UCLA defensive coordinator Tom Bradley (Andy Holzman/Los Angeles Daily News)

UCLA defensive coordinator Tom Bradley (Andy Holzman/Los Angeles Daily News)

UPDATE: (12:20 p.m.) Tom Bradley, through his representative Brett Senior, denied having knowledge of Sandusky’s misconduct in the 1980s and 1990s.

Documents unsealed by a Pennsylvania court Tuesday unveiled testimony that current UCLA defensive coordinator Tom Bradley, a former Penn State assistant coach, knew of Jerry Sandusky‘s sexual abuse of boys as early as the 1980s.

In a 2015 deposition, former Penn State assistant Mike McQueary, a main witness in the case who reported to then-head coach Joe Paterno that he had seen Sandusky raping a boy in 2001, said Bradley did not seem shocked after hearing about the crime.

The deposition continues to state that when McQueary told Bradley about the abuse, Bradley told him Greg Schiano, a former Penn State assistant and current Ohio State defensive coordinator, came to him in the early 1990s “about a very similar situation to (McQueary’s)” and that someone in the early ’80s also told him of Sandusky’s misconduct with boys.

Of the incident in the 1980s, Bradley told McQueary “someone had seen (Sandusky) doing something to a boy,” according to the deposition. Regarding the event a decade later, McQueary said he was told that Schiano “came into (Bradley’s) office white as a ghost and said he had just saw Jerry doing something to a boy in the shower.”

McQueary said the conversation took place in the mid-2000s, and that he and Bradley would complain to each other about Sandusky having access to the Penn State facilities.

Through a statement released by his representative Brett Senior, Bradley said he did not have any knowledge of the alleged incidents in the ’80s and ’90s and when he learned about the 2001 incident, it had already been reported to university administration.

Bradley was at Penn State for 37 years as a player, graduate assistant and full-time assistant coach. He left in 2012 and joined the UCLA staff as the defensive coordinator in 2015.