By
Ray Blehar
If things had gone
according to the original plan in the Sandusky investigation, Jerry would be a
free man, The Second Mile charity would be thriving, Joe Paterno would have retired as
the winningest coach in Division I football, and life would have went on as it
always did in Happy Valley.
Ironically, it was not
Jerry Sandusky that changed life in Happy Valley as we know it, but rather, it
was Governor Tom Corbett, whose political vendetta against Graham Spanier set
everything in motion.
The trail
of evidence in this case will demonstrate how the actions of Corbett, Freeh,
Erickson, the Patriot News, and
others turned what should have been The Second Mile(TSM)/Department of Public Welfare (DPW) scandal into what
became known as the Penn State sex abuse scandal. The evidence also indicates that activities occurring at PSU, TSM, and other places were not just a matter of coincidence.
By sensationalizing the 2001 incident at PSU, Corbett and his allies diverted the attention away from the people who enabled Sandusky’s access to children- DPW and The Second Mile - during his decades long period of abuse and shifted the blame on PSU's "football culture."
By sensationalizing the 2001 incident at PSU, Corbett and his allies diverted the attention away from the people who enabled Sandusky’s access to children- DPW and The Second Mile - during his decades long period of abuse and shifted the blame on PSU's "football culture."
Each person or group was motivated by self-interest, which revolved around just two things - money and power.
