For a split second, after he went back to his car and contemplated just seeing
Jerry Sandusky and a boy in his son's grade lying face-to-face on a wrestling mat after hours in a Keystone Central school weight room, coach Joe Miller hesitated.
Why would they be there? No one is supposed to be there after hours, he testified at Sandusky's child sex abuse trial Tuesday.
"Then I thought, well, it's Jerry Sandusky -- he's a saint," Miller testified. "What he's doing with these kids is fantastic, so I didn't think anything of it."
So he dismissed it. Never told anyone -- not even his wife.
Not until that boy, now known as Victim 1 of 10 in the Sandusky child sex abuse case, came forward and made allegations, did Miller recount his story to an investigating grand jury.
He told it once more Tuesday during the trial, giving credibility to Victim 1, who emotionally testified earlier in the day and recounted that incident for jurors, too.
Victim 1 said Sandusky had brought him to the room to work out, but he wanted to climb a rock wall. Sandusky lifted him from the wall as he was climbing, and put him on the ground where they were when Miller interrupted, he testified.
He said Sandusky "jumped like a rabbit" when Miller walked in.
And when Miller testified, attorney Joe Amendola asked him if that was an accurate characterization.
Miller said yes.