It’s funny how Kane’s fate is linked to the PSU indictment debacle. Obviously Corbett as governor had a vendetta for Spanier and to me at least it is obvious he vitiated the prosecution of Sandusky by stalling, manipulating and then had his AG, Kelly flat out lied to a grand jury so as to give the appearance that PSU officials were why the investigation was botched. Corbett was only interested in pursuing Sandusky when he could link the thing to PSU administration.
Joe Paterno was collateral damage. Really, how many times did the AG and DPW get warned about Sandusky? Why would PSU officials have more insight on Sandusky than PA DPW had. How many children were continually being referred to Second Mile even after the previous allegations of child sex abuse? How many children were placed in direct care with Sandusky after the allegations.
Real citizens know the timelines don’t add up, PSU administration may have been lazy but it isn’t there job to protect children as much as it was Corbett’s as AG and then as Governor. Mike McQueary should have been charged with perjury or AG Kelly should be arrested for prosecutor misconduct since we now know, and you can check this, he never reported child rape to PSU, he used the term horseplay, he got the date of the incident wrong as did Kelly.
And one final aside isn’t it odd how they never found any pornography on Sandusky’s computers and yet Frank Fina and his crooked clique at the AG’s office seemed to be spending a lot of taxapayer time messing with it. Which concludes with…and now we know why Kane is being illegally prosecuted.
Kane was linked to the Sandusky case by her own worst enemy. Herself! In her campaign she said she was going to investigate Corbett and why he took so long to indict Sandusky. After a lengthy investigation in during which she made an erroneous statement that they had found children who were molested after the investigation began, they finally had to conclude that there was nothing improper with the Corbett investigation. I, personally found it interesting that Kane resorted to the Grand Jury when she investigated the Diocese of Altoona. Wasn’t she concerned that more children would be molested while she was investigating the matter?
There is enough blame to go around. Yes Corbett and Kelly botched things for political gain. But the idea that it isn’t the job of PSU administrators to protect kids is just wrong. It is their job to protect all kids on their campus and I would contend that when they host youth as they did here that duty rises to a higher level as the younger children need a higher level of protection.
Let us be clear here. Sandusky clearly a monster. The members of the PSU familly who knew there were problems and did nothing to protect the children are also to blame for what happened. Yes that includes Paterno in that. The members of the legal community who allowed it to go on after they knew what was happened (including Corbett) are also to blame.
There is blame to go around.
EDITOR: The best information was that Joe Paterno was told of “horseplay” in the locker room showers, not sexual misconduct. He learned of this on a Friday evening and reported it to the PSU law enforcement authorities on the following Monday. What did he do to deserve blame although he apologized later for not having been more pro-active.
Moreover, Sandusky was using the field house in his capacity as a retired faculty member, not as a coach. Years had gone by since he was associated with the football program.
Both the Centre County authorities and the state Attorney General division had not found sufficient evidence over the years to indict Sandusky. In the latter case, perhaps they weren’t looking very hard because Corbett was pocketing huge donations from board members of Sandusky’s foundation.
After Paterno’s reporting of the incident, Penn State authorities did ban Sandusky from use of the field house and also notified the foundation board members.
We just don’t understand why the PSU officials were indicted, PSU athletic program was pilloried by the NCAA (in flagrant violation of the NCAA by-laws and constitution), and why Tom Corbett and the university accepted the NCAA penalties without appeal. Of course the bogus Louis Freeh report played a role in its misrepresentation of what had occurred.
NewsLanc was ahead of statewide media and public opinion in reporting on all of these errors and abuses almost simultaneously with the breaking news. We said at the time that the firing of Joe Paterno was a diversionary action buy Tom Corbett to detract attention to his not having prosecuted Sandusky when Corbett was attorney general. And PSU was was the next scape goat.
“PSU administration may have been lazy but it isn’t their job to protect children as much as it was Corbett’s as AG and governor” In my estimation, it is everybody’s job to protect children. PSU may not have been guilty over a cover-up, but was certainly negligent. “Lazy” is too lenient a term.
I wonder if this situation goes way beyond what’s been reported. A long time ago I read an article that tied wealthy Philadelphia politicians to Second Mile and child abuse – could it be that Kathleen Kane got a bit too close in her investigation & that’s why she’s being run out of office, and releasing some of the e-mails to protect herself?
There’s more to this and it’s ugly, I’m sure of it. So sad PSU & especially Joe Paterno had to take the fall for this.
No, could it be that some women will need to blame the “good Ole boys” to cover for Kane’ s mistakes?
This is the worst grammar I have seen in years. Where did this reporter go to school? I’m embarrassed for the author just reading it.
EDITOR: The typo appears on Facebook because, unlike on this web site, it cannot be readily corrected.
In answer to the question, Cal Berkeley and first in his class in Economics.
So why did you pile all the blame on Paterno, who did more for PSU than all those admistrators rolled into one! What a disgrace!
Interesting that the anti- American propaganda still lives…… The system is drenched in corruption
[Paterno] did nothing to solve it more interested in image and football
Someone had to bring the Archdiocese in the discussion as proof that Kane using the grand jury for that case somehow vindicates Corbett’s delayed investigation. Since I follow up every story I would like to add that the statute of limitations on the Altoona case has already expired, the investigation is still open for recent misconduct and some of the abuse would have occurred when Corbett was AG (he served twice in that capacity).
So again, who dropped the ball on protecting Pennsylvania’s children? Not Kane.
How does bringing it to the attention of the school’s administrators (including the one in charge of the PD) equate to ignoring the problem?
She did it all by herself. Her staff warned her not to give that information to the paper. They warned her it would violate the Judges order. And it was her own staff that testified against her.
This is like blaming the police for the Catholic Church covering up child molestation by priests.