So Corbett holds a national news conference and runs around holding interviews with the national media to call greater attention to his worst screw-up.
Yes, the NCAA should not have punished the young football players so severely - because they were not at fault. Instead, the NCAA should have found some way to punish Corbett, who was one of the main enablers of Sandusky.
Because of Corbett's inaction, Sandusky was enjoying the view from his back porch of the adjacent elementary school playground. There easily could have been more victims during those 3 years before Sandusky was arrested.
Corbett had full responsibility for investigating Sandusky starting in early 2009. A credible young witness and his mother came to the County DA, who passed the case onto Corbett because the DA had a family conflict of interest (which is the normal process across the country).
According to several accounts, Corbett assigned one part-time investigator to the case. That investigator didn't even spend enough time on the case to find out that Sandusky had written a book entitled "Touched" that was for sale on Amazon at the time. That book happened to feature most of his victims.
Instead, Corbett was angry with rage that his criminal cases against Democratic staffers in the Legislature were falling apart. Bonusgate was supposed to be his ticket to the Governor's Mansion, but now he was looking incompetent. Juries threw out at least one case. He ordered "all hands on deck" to concentrate on Bonusgate.
Meanwhile, the AG's office had a highly respected Child Protection Unit that concentrated on protecting children from severe abuse. They were not given responsibility for investing Sandusky. Anyone who knows anything about child sexual abuse would have known that Sandusky fit all of the profiles for a serial abuser. Everyone knew that Sandusky spent so much of his time alone with young boys from unstable families.
A couple years later, a state narcotics investigator was looking into steroids abuse at Penn State. He conducted a routine check of the AG's computer system to see if any of his suspects were being investigated by other people in the office. Up pops the cold case investigation of Sandusky. He then pushes for a real investigation, helped by a new interim Attorney General, who comes into power after Corbett becomes Governor. Once the AG staff actually drive to Penn State and look at Penn State's files, they find a mother-load of coverups, and other victims come forward. (Side-note- Corbett then decides not to appoint the well-experienced interim AG (who he had hand-picked) to be the permanent AG.)
http://newslanc.com/2012/01/09/tom-didnt-want-to-do-it-but-narcotics-agent-nabs-sandusky/
http://www.yardbird.com/corbett_sandusky_psu_timeline.htm
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10742589
http://www.yardbird.com/Corbett_governorship_imperiled_by_spin.htm
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