What they do to little kids or what they seek from them bears no resemblance whatsoever to sexual affection, IMO. I think classifying pedophilia as a disorder or mental illness ( the opposite of health is illness) and characterizing pedophiles a big, goofy, immature adults who turn to kids because they don't have the capacity or health to have relationships with adults, is b.s. and is a huge slap in the face of victims everywhere. Sometimes, it's just evil. And when the psychiatric community or psychological community pathologizes evil, it leads to excusing it.
For this reason, pedophiles have been deemed, by psychologists, repeatedly, no longer a danger to society and released from prison.
In any event, only some experts believe pedophilia is caused or related to arrested emotional development (which in turn, is related to the argument that they seek attention and affection from kids rather than adults). I find it to be an insulting and disgusting apologist argument.
BBM. That's an excellent question. I don't know but it would make a huge difference. I'm going to review those sentencing guidelines now. I will say this again, though: It is clear by Amendola's petition that the sentences do not have to be concurrent. So, while someone is unlikely, in general, to get more than 60 months for ISDI, when there are multiple counts connected to multiple victims that occurred on different dates in different years, I think the argument for consecutive sentences is stronger.
As far as whether or not Sandusky will remain a danger in 10 or 20 years or not, well, we don't know that his appetite for destroying little lives has slowed down. He's got a whole crop of grandkids now. And we will likely never know how many victims he has actually had.
In any event, I have seen too many cases of old pedophiles to think the risk is worth it.
But let's put aside risk for a moment. That is certainly not the only determining factor in sentencing a criminal. Sandusky irrevocably altered innocent and extremely vulnerable young children. He damaged them permanently, no matter how strong they are or how well they heal. I'm not into torture or revenge but shouldn't Sandusky pay for what he did to those little lives? Shouldn't he give up his freedom for the rest of his life as a small pittance for the abuse he inflicted on children?