Neighbors Fear for Kids’ Safety as Sandusky Watches Playground

[justiceischeap]

Jerry Sandusky has been sitting on the deck of his house watching children in a nearby school playground, neighbors tell authorities. State prosecutors are requesting that he be forced to stay indoors.

Sandusky’s deck overlooks an elementary school, which is less than 50 yards away from his house. He has been on house arrest since December.

"To think that he's up there, watching our kids and that's his new outlet, that's just creepy," Anna Hassan, a neighbor of Sandusky's, told NBC News in an interview.

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Must this be spelled out to him like this?

[Lint Head]

1. Creepy.

[Justice wanted]

2. I would be pissed too.

[surfdog]

3. These parents need to get over it

The judge will tell him to stay inside and the parents will see him looking out the window then what ...he can't look out his window ?

[TwilightGardener]

6. He's a creepy bastard, but yeah, you can't force the man to

not look over THERE! Or THERE! What's next, a blindfold?

[justiceischeap]

9. The parents need to get over it?

Really? So these parents shouldn't worry about their kids safety?

[surfdog]

10. Whoever said that ?

Sandusky is caught under the wheels of justice they are turning justice is coming , the guys under house arrest , are you Gonna blindfold him is that your solution ?

do you honestly think the judge can order him to stay in his house and not look out his Windows ?

[justiceischeap]

11. It's certainly implied when you tell the parents they need to get over it

The guy, who lives 150ft from an elementary school, shouldn't be under house arrest (at least not at his home). There should have been conditions on his house arrest as well but he's getting special treatment because of who he is.

I think steps need to be taken to make sure the kids that go to school right next to his home are safe. Him sitting on his deck, watching the playground with the charges against him, is just plain wrong.

[surfdog]

13. That's a pretty sick statement

"the kids that go to school right next to his home are safe"

What about the rest of the kids ?

Why do you want to protect the kids next door only ?

Surely he could take a walk down the block and find some kids , maybe go to the mall offer some candy and ice cream to the local kids

Implying that when and if he broke his house arrest he would only go to the school next-door is a little weak

[roguevalley]

15. its bs that he's even out. damn. what do you have to do in Penn. to go to jail?

Around here he would be in jail, no bail.

[Obama3_16]

22. he should be in jail without any hope for bail while he awaits trial

he's a creeper of the worst sort.

[yellowcanine]

32. I don't see how a parent "gets over it" in this instance. It is creepy.

But let him sit on his damn porch. Put up a high privacy fence to block the playground from his sight.

[Ecumenist]

4. WHOA....I know they can't prevent him from watching the kids from his deck but I'm not sure

I would allow my kids to be at that playground with a phalanx of parents guarding them. CAH-REEPIE!

[rfranklin]

8. they need to build a privacy screen to shield the children...

on second thought it would be cheaper and more effective to remand him to custody.

[former9thward]

14. It is cheaper to have him under house arrest.

Plenty of people are under house arrest because it is economical. Is has nothing to do with "who they are" which a poster claimed. No they don't need to build a fence. No one is being harmed. Guess you better keep your kids out of school, out of malls, out of parks and no where outside because there may be a creep looking at them.

[rfranklin]

17. There is no "may be" about this guy...

he's a threat to children.

[former9thward]

18. No he is not.

He is under house arrest. Period. No threat except in over protective parent's imaginations.

[rfranklin]

19. Is he shackled?

I don't think so.

He could be over in that playground in a moment.

[former9thward]

21. Just make up things.

That is all you got. Hope you are not a parent.

[Aerows]

25. I wouldn't trust that SOB around a butcher yard

much less 150 ft. from a school yard. If you would, I have to question your reasons.

[former9thward]

27. Question my reasons all you want.

I am really concerned about that. Not. I live in the real world, not in a world of unwarranted hysteria and fantasy. But others may differ.

[Aerows]

30. Former9thWard

I lived in New Orleans, and I assume that's what you are talking about and I went through Katrina. Every day I went through it. I saw how hard we can have it, and still come together. We REBUILT. As hardworking human beings. Not as sexual fucking predators. Sandusky is a sexual predator that preys on the most needy, and as far as I am concerned, I'd prefer that he is sitting in a jail cell. As it stands, he's still able to prey on the needy and that makes me ill.

I'll refrain from the other choice words that popped into my mind.

[former9thward]

34. I am not from N.O.

I am from Chicago where I held an minor elective office some time ago. Different sexual predators have different ways they get their victims. We all know, from the alleged facts we have been told, how Sandusky got his victims. He did not go to grade schools and snatch victims or expose himself. The students at that school are under no threat from him and despite faux outrage everyone knows that.

I would have no problem with him in jail awaiting trial but a judge has made a decision to put him under house arrest and there have been no allegations he has violated any rules of that.

[Aerows]

36. You think it's faux outrage?

Really? After reading the grand jury report? I assure you, it's anything but faux, and if you are even going to begin to defend a person that did that to those children, you can just stop right there and talk to the hand.

There is OVERWHELMING evidence, and defense of Sandusky is sickening. I READ the grand jury findings. This is nothing even remotely resembling a witch hunt, it's prosecuting a damn criminal.

[former9thward]

37. Point to me in the GJ report where he went to a school and snatched a kid.

You can't help but create strawmen. The issue is whether a judge can have him under house arrest or not. The issue is not the guilt or innocence of Sandusky. But you can't argue the real issue so you try and demonize anyone debating you as being in favor of child molestation. Typical tactic by a debater with no facts on their side.

[justiceischeap]

26. I'd bet that if Jerry Sandusky wasn't Jerry Sandusky but a minority male

his ass would be riding a prison cot, not sitting on his deck looking at children, whom he, apparently, gets sexually excited by.

Sitting on a deck, watching children on a playground, is like porn for pedophiles. What happens when most people watch porn?

[former9thward]

28. There are hundreds of thousands of people on some form of house arrest in the U.S.

And there are plenty of 'minority males' among them. If you don't want that more prisons would have to be built -- but I suspect you would complain about that too. Some people love to find outrage.

[Aerows]

31. Child predators are in a class all by themselves

If you would screw a child, there is something wrong with you. If you abuse an animal, there is something wrong with you.

It isn't necessary to explain this to decent people - decent people already know this. If this needs explanation, seek help.

[former9thward]

33. Nice attempt to build a strawman.

If someone disagrees with you they support child predators. OK. Got it.

[Aerows]

35. No strawmans

If you think it's okay to screw a child, there is something wrong with you. If you think it's okay to abuse an animal, there is something wrong with you.

99% of sane society would agree with that. Again, if you think there is something to defend in screwing a child, or abusing an animal - if you can find a reason to defend such behavior - seek help.

If you consider defending such behavior some "logical argument" that you can rationalize your way out of, you are already in trouble. Here, let me state it plainly. Don't sexual abuse children, or in any way abuse them. Don't abuse animals, either. If you do, or defend such behavior, people are going to bring up supposed "straw man arguments" like WTF is wrong with you.

[KansDem]

5. Time to organize a "Neighborhood Watch" of a different sort...

Parents taking turns watching Sandusky.

[renie408]

7. Gee, you mean Jerry Sandusky bought a house less than 150 ft from an elementary school?

Go figure.

[Initech]

20. More fuel for the fire isn't it?

[Initech]

12. Creepy is an understatement.

[XemaSab]

16. If a parolee who had sex with a 17-yo isn't allowed to live within 1000 yards of a school

why is this pervert allowed to live 150 feet from a school?

(Yeah, I know. There's innocent until proven guilty, and then there's keeping the health and safety of kids in mind.)

[Aerows]

23. The only window he should be looking out of

Is a prison window into the prison yard.

He's only gotten this kind of leniency because of his political position and money. Anybody else would be in lock up, and that's where he deserves to be.

[Nye Bevan]

29. Simple. Make it a condition of his bail that he can't go on his deck while school is in session

or look out of any of his windows that overlook the school.

While I don't think he will be popping over to the playground to assault any of the kids, as a parent, I would not want somebody who was witnessed raping pre-pubescent boys staring at my children.

Bail is a privilege, not a right.

[BlueIris]

38. Yikes. That is just awful.

And yeah, I don't know how hard it would be to keep him inside, but they should keep him inside.