HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS Editorial: [Kane’s investigator, Geoffrey Moulton] exhaustive report indicates that questionable decisions in handling of the case, not politics, explains much of why three years elapsed between Victim A.F.’s report to authorities and the criminal charges against Sandusky…
It took five months for higher-ups to answer a simple question from the lead prosecutor: Are we going forward with a case involving just one victim or do we dig harder to find more victims? During that five months, the investigation ground to a halt.
Most mystifying of all – why didn’t investigators check sooner with police at State College and Penn State about other potential reports involving Sandusky? That step was the one that broke the case wide open. It led investigators to a troubling 1998 incident that was reported but not prosecuted and eventually revealed fo exhaustive report indicates that questionable decisions in handling of the case, not politics, explains much of why three years elapsed between Victim A.F.’s report to authorities and the criminal charges against Sandusky… (more)
