Former Penn State defense coordinator Jerry Sandusky has continued to declare his innocence despite a small mountain of allegations against him, but in testimony at a preliminary hearing today former assistant coach Mike McQueary put a stake through Sandusky’s claim that he merely engaged in horseplay with the 10 boys who have accused him of sexual abuse.

McQueary, recalling a 2002 incident in the football team’s locker room, said he peeked into the shower several times and saw Sandusky with his hands wrapped around the waist of a boy he estimated to be 10 or 12 years old. He said both were naked, the boy was facing the wall, and that the last time he looked in, Sandusky and the boy had separated.

“I know they saw me,” McQueary said. “They looked directly in my eye, both of them . . . ”

When McQueary later met with the athletic director and a university vice president in charge of the campus police, he said he told them he heard skin on skin slapping sounds in a locker room shower, and then saw Sandusky and the boy, both naked.

“I told them that I saw Jerry in the showers with a young boy and that what I had seen was extremely sexual and over the lines and it was wrong,” McQueary testified. “I would have described that it was extremely sexual and I thought that some kind of intercourse was going on.”

Sandusky has said he will play defense for all four quarters but he may not even make it to the first quarter.