And OJ is still looking for the killer...

I hope Jerry makes new friends in the slammer, and I hope they treat him with the same respect and dignity he treated these young children.

He should end up in a maximum security facility. Then he would know how his victims felt.

I disagree with most of the sentiments given. I thought OJ was guilty, too, but my wife thought he was innocent. -- Sandusky is a human being, as well, and in need of recovery as does his victims. As human beings we are all 100% social, sexual and spiritual beings. There is no compartmentalization here. Nature (creation) and nurture (culture) doesn't always agree on the rules of living together. Some flowers never fully mature for reasons of its own, still, we judge it from what it should be, -- we think. The violation should be addressed fairly, but including the understanding that the flower hasn't fully bloomed into the creation it was intended to be. There is a reason for that and I predict that it is more complicated then what a simple judgment can tell us. To be penalized for the offense should be expected given the best understanding of growing up in a 20th and 21st century society, however, punishment should never happen.

Thank you Parent #2! James you don't sound stable and a tad on the creepy side.

Great, now WE get to pay to keep this man alive for the next 30 years. How much is that costing us a day? Hope he rots in you know where.

Jeff- Unless he is kept seperate I can't see him lasting very long anyway.

James...your comments are like those of molesters. "little flowers, blooming", nature and culture....very disturbing indeed. It's that kind of distorted thinking that "permits" perpetrators to do the inevitable to children. I hope you are not around children with that thinking....and you may just need to get a mental health evaluation yourself to determine if you need some counseling.

James I think you and Jerry Sandusky need to be in the same cell. You sound like a very sick individual!

I'm glad he will be put away for the rest of his life. Sorry the taxpayers have to pay to keep him alive, he doesn't deserve it. I'm sorry the victims had to listen to his ramblings of innocence.

James, but your rambling are disturbing and scary.

I was away from news all day, and just learned of the decision on the radio news. I'll leave the Sandusky discussion to others.

But, part of the radio news of the court scene included a segment saying one of the victims testified, "I don't forgive you, and never will..." Maybe somebody can correct me if I heard this wrong. This statement was more startling to me than the sentence for Sandusky.

Assuming I heard rightly, this victim will do himself more harm that Sandusky. Living with an unforgiving heart will eat this person alive. The bitterness will linger and he will never get out from under the matter. Yes, Sandusky is a man who needs help, but this victim needs lots of help too.

Do I understand rightly that one of the victims has written (is intending?) to write a book?

Parent 2- I must say that since my wife died a little over 3 years ago I have listened to some music CDs and DVDs I have collected over the years to bring me solace and presence again and again, and for me it works. Sir Yehudi Menuhin's Mozart, Dvorak, Andries Segovia's The Intimate Guitar, Vittorio, Il Divo, Josh Groban, The musical score on the movie Schindler's List and many musicals. Right now it's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I have heard them all hundreds of times, and yes, Jackie Evancho. I have actually told my 4 sons and 8 grandchildren and my church (Unitarian Universalist) and those that I work with as a volunteer on several outings a week. She is a sweetheart, and I would suggest that her whole family deserves a lot of the credit, too; Mike, lisa, Jacob, Zack, and Rachel.
Concern Cit- My sons are in their 40s now and are very aware of their father's position on this issue and every other one. I am a progressive with a liberation impulse, I say. All life is sacred to me, but it is understandable to swat a fly when it is annoying you. Human life at this moment is a very violent species to creation and each other. I wasn't talking about forgiveness at all. That's a subject to itself, but could it happen? Maybe -- in time, and maybe not. -- Sandusky is ill, and is in need of long term therapeutic treatment. Can he be cured? Who knows. In some cases, yes, -- some, no. I don't believe in 'throw-a-ways.'

I will have to finish this on another comment.

Sandusky's crime was grotesque and horrible, and his penalty deserves a severe statement to that fact, but if his sentence is given without the hope and help toward recovery then everyone loses, and justice has been perverted. To do otherwise is simply revenge.
Robert A. Shoat-- The use of the word 'flower' is an analogy of us. We are all bent a little bit. Some has greater problems fitting in then others do as they mature. We are not born 'whole' - we grow up as we are able (nature-nurture). Culture is really our surrogate parents, and it take the seed that we are (nature) and sometimes do a good job and sometimes not (nurture). -- We really do belong to each other. In other words Sandusky, and his victims needs everyone's concern, and we should help them.
Susan-- What Sandusky did deserves your hate, and society should judge him for that, but his life is as sacred as yours and mine and all of us is. Penalty? Yes. Punishment? No. We all deserve humanity's best gift; respect and acceptance as a human being.

Gee , Jimmy do you feel the same way towards Hitler?

Agreed Susan!! I wonder if James would be singing the same tune had it been one of his children having their youth ripped away by sick vile piece of crap

When someone does something like this and feels like there is nothing wrong with what they did and feels no remorse they are probably a sociopath. A sociopath has no conscience or guilt. I don't believe someone like this can be rehabilitated no matter how much "therapy" they go through. What's even worse is that he blamed the victims and is trying to turn things around to make himself look like the victim. I think when someone is a perv like this, it's their nature and not a "mistake" like accidently going through a stop sign. I think it would be nearly impossible to change / rehabilitate someone like this. More than likely he will learn the right things to say and find God to try to get paroled. I don't think it's worth the risk to try to fix them and let them back into society among children again. I hope he gets in prison what he dished out, that way the punishment will fit the crime. I'm so sick of people feeling sorry for the criminal and worrying about their rights instead of the victims.

Sandra-- You may be right in that he cannot be helped, but you (we as society) should want him to be helped.

Guest-- I would probably feel a lot like you do.

Susan-- I am still crushed with their pain. It's like a violent disease. I wished it never happened.

Jon Wain-- Yes....

Robert Shoaf-- Yes....

I would like to move on from Sandusky and see authorities get to the bottom of what became of the DA, Ray Gricar, who was investigating this in the very beginning and went missing all these years. There is a murderer out there AND accomplices. I think this runs very deep, with many dirty hands...

It's obvious that "James Dale Barrington" is making these statements for a response, and should not be allowed to post on Patch. Not because everyone disagrees with him (well, anyone not brain dead, anyway), he has a right to state opinions like anyone else. But it's clear with his defending Hitler and Stalin that he is clearly just trying to get a rise out of people and not have open discourse. Please ignore these ramblings until someone at Patch deletes his posts.

Again, "James Dale Barrington", it's not that you have opinions that run the opposite of any civilized society that I take issue with. It's the fact that you are clearly just trying to get a rise out of people.

Patch readers, be better than this and don't take the bait.

James, just in case you are not aware you have been baited by a troll trying to incite an uprising against you while calling for "open discourse." The Patch is not going to delete your comment for your spiritual beliefs.

I have a hard time feeling the same way, but I get not answering violence with violence and not wishing for Sandusky to be raped in prison until he dies at which point he should burn in heck forever...Yeah, I don't wish that. Should he be imprisoned? Absolutely. Do I agree with our prison systems? No. Child molesters aside you raise a good point about the kind of person that we seek to create when imprisoning someone for _victimless_ crimes. In this case, he had very clear victims.

We have a flawed system when imprisonment is supposed to be a threat to other potential offenders. Obviously, Sandusky's arrest is not going to deter other people from hurting children. So where do you go next? Public branding in the street? Torture? Burned at the stake? We have been there as a society and it has failed while hurting a lot of innocent people so there is something to be said for analyzing what imprisonment is; a safety measure for the public or a punishment. At least that is what this situation and your posts make me consider.

Really, Erin? Defending child rape now? Calling me a troll, but not only that, following my comment to this post?

Please grow up.

Once again you and your self-righteousness have taken over yet another post. This time, it isn't a liberal vs. conservative issue. It's about child rape, and I doubt that you will find anyone to agree with you about that.

And if you read my post instead of making ridiculous comments, you'll see that I state that "James Dale Barrington" is doing what you accuse me of...no rational person would defend Hitler and Stalin, Erin. So use all that education you have and READ

Or have all your degrees made you more enlightened than the rest of us, leading you to believe that the Holocaust was because we "misunderstood" Hitler?

You know, Erin, you are truly a blessing. We NEED people so much smarter than the rest of us to explain that child rape isn't a bad thing and people who commit it are just misunderstood. Thank you for being there to lead us.

If defending child rape isn't trolling, I don't know what is.

And Erin, I will call you out on this. I notice that you make a snide comment about me, but none of the other posters who think that child rape is deplorable (but you find acceptable). Why is that? Why no immature comments directed at THEIR posts?

You keep taking issue with people calling you a little girl, but until you act like an adult it will continue to happen.

You don't just think you know more about politics, you showed that you think you know more about morality and law than everyone else too. Child rapists shouldn't be punished! That is too much even for dyed-in-the-wool democrats to swallow. That isn't a liberal / conservative issue. Child rape is wrong, Erin.

Concerned Citizen- You crack me up! I enjoy reading your posts. You and I share the same sentiments on a lot of things I have noticed throughout my journey on the Patch.com

To me there is no worse crime than harming a child. And what Sandusky did is the most despicable kind of harm. People like Sandusky cannot be rehabilitated - look at how many crimes against children are committed by repeat child abuse offenders. The answer to the problem is simple - put Sandusky in the general population and let nature take it's course.

I never said any of that. I certainly never defended a child rapist, and my quotes are right above if anyone would like to check them out. I certainly never said that 9/11 was not a terrorist attack, and I most certainly never said that any victim of 9/11 deserved to die.

Your comments are to the point where you are being incredibly offensive, personally insulting, and obstructive to any sort of decent conversation. 8 comments saying that I am defending child rapists?

And this is because I chose to defend someone that people on this thread are insinuating to be a pedophile (That would be James and not Sandusky)? Is there a line here maybe? I think there is, and I think it has been seriously crossed. A troll makes little comment on the subject but only participates to anger others and bring conversations to a halt through that anger. That is what you are doing, and you should be ashamed of yourself especially considering this superior maturity that you are implying to have in comparison with me.

Erin- If it's not this comment thread its another one. I have to agree Concerned Citizen, Erin re-read your post. You are CLEARLY agreeing Sandusky should not be punished. THERE IS NO REHABILITATING CHILD MOLESTERS! I do NOT care how much psychiatric help they may receive they deserve to be hurt just as BAD as they hurt the young children. Do you have children? Do you have nieces? Nephews? Do you have a heart for children? If not, there's the problem. You need your head examined.

Please show me where I say that Sandusky should not be imprisoned. Please show me where I even mention child molesters being rehabilitated.

And I say....a few comments right above this one:
"Should he be imprisoned? Absolutely. Do I agree with our prison systems? No. Child molesters aside you raise a good point about the kind of person that we seek to create when imprisoning someone for _victimless_ crimes. In this case, he had very clear victims."

I feel like I am being punked.