Trevor wrote on Apr 18, 2008 5:08 AM:Child sexual abuse is a horrible crime, and it's good to see that, in this case at least, justice has been done. Mr Simental will have a very long time to reflect on what he did to these children, the rest of his life it seems. He is going where all such sexual predators should end up - locked away for life.

enlightened wrote on Apr 18, 2008 7:49 AM:Sexual abuse of children is sinful.

This man was protected by his church, and that also is sinful.

Glad justice has been served.

Joes wrote on Apr 18, 2008 10:14 AM:Guess you really never know someone.

REALChristian wrote on Apr 18, 2008 8:24 PM:I belong to this religion and this is a disgrace. I had a family memeber molested and the first thing our elders told us to do was to call the police immediately. We have a legal department at our New York headquearters who instruct us to immediately report this sort of thing to the authorities that minute! Something was not handled right and has therefore led to our organization now being classified as those who offer protection to pedophiles and this is not the case for the most part. It is unfortunate that this case was handled in this manner. It has now made it difficult on the rest of us who are confronted by justifiably angry people.

Concerned dad wrote on Apr 18, 2008 8:39 PM:This is sad. I hope this man does a long time in prison. I hope this girl can get the help she needs and this man doesn't get out of prison.

Bill wrote on Apr 18, 2008 9:14 PM:I've seen lots of murderers get less of a sentence than that! Sex is the root of all evil!

Real Christian wrote on Apr 19, 2008 8:42 AM: I'm glad in your case things were handled correctly.
I still can't began to understand how these Elders didn't report this to the law!!
I'm sure this predator was sitting in the local Kingdom hall picking out his future victims!

Where is the protection for the children?
Do they warn you if a accused molester is in your hall?
SO SCARY!!!

Look out for these evil people wrote on Apr 19, 2008 12:49 PM:What really concerns me is my family lives in Roripaugh Hills. There was someone in our neighborhood who was on the Megan's Law website. He is off the site but he is still in the neighborhood. Is he reformed? This is scary, I feel my children could be in danger of this predator. I think he shoud move out of the area or at least be put back on the site.

Predators among us wrote on Apr 20, 2008 9:30 AM:This is scary. I think those in our midst who would do such things need to have the maximum penalties allowed. Where was Child Protective Services during this investigation.