There was a lot of talk of closure in the initial reporting of the verdict against Jerry Sandusky.

As a retired member of the research faculty of Penn State, I’m here to tell you that there will be no hope for closure in the greatest scandal in collegiate history until the institutional rot at Penn State — which allegedly had a blind eye and a deaf ear to the monstrous child abuse of little boys by a sexual deviant who stole their innocence — is also brought to justice by being prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

That is owed to the victims and their families, who will never experience true closure because of the scars of what I consider to be the more despicable crime of what was allowed to happen to children by those whose priorities were so skewed as to be more concerned about the “humane” treatment of a Penn State icon than his victims, past and future.

Gary L. Morella Lemont