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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI have renewed faith in the US justice system.
Thank God Sandusky will now be off the streets and unable to harm any more innocent children! I don't know and frankly don't care what happens to him in jail. I just want children to be safe from monsters like him.
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I have renewed faith in the US justice system. (Original Post)
MoonRiver
Jun 2012
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freshwest
(53,661 posts)1. Yes, I breathed a sigh of relief.
teddy51
(3,491 posts)2. It will be a long uphill battle for many of his victims to (hopefully) get this behind them.
This is exactly like that Hockey Coach in Canada that forced many of his players to have sex with him. Graham James was his name, and his sentence was not nearly harsh enough.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2012/03/19/graham-james-sentence.html
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)3. Yes, the trauma won't go away with his conviction.
But maybe it will give them hope and the strength to survive and thrive.
mercymechap
(579 posts)4. Thank God for that!
Although it won't erase the harm that he did, at least now the victims can have peace in knowing that he has been publicly embarrassed and removed from society.