God, I wonder how many others there are. His being so young, I also wonder what the future holds for him. Is there any hope for him? He evidently is a sick person who is going to need a lot of hlelp. I feel sorry for his victims. What is going on in this world?

@ Kristine. If he goes to prison his life is pretty much over and he will most likely based on his appearance get a first hand lesson about the victims side of sexual assault.

@Ray, I know what you're saying, but obviously he's mentally ill. I don't want to see him released anytime soon so he can do it all over again, & from what I understand, he can't control himself. It's an illness. So what happens to him in the future? They can't keep him in jail forever. I also wonder if he was abused also?

This kid was a good friend of mine who after we stopped hanging out rode with a bad crowd for as long as I knew him he wasn't this out of wack and any punishment he gets is not good or well deserved. Anyone commenting on this including myself are unaware of the full story behind this so don't judge

He was a good friend of mine too.. He is a nice and funny guy.. he would always make me laugh in gym class. He was good friends with my boyfriend too. I know what he did was wrong.. but like Tyler said, we don't know the entire story. No one is perfect. He really is a good guy. Just a guy that also just made some horrible mistakes... :(

@ john dockson: Before all of this, yes he was a good kid. And yes i know he will never be the same now.

Didn't he have a girlfriend too? Where was she in all of this? I feel bad for her.. I couldn't even imagine how she feels right now.

@ John Dockson. If you don't know him then don't judge him. He probably went through the same things when he was a child. That is the number one reason people end up doing something like this. And how could he be as bad as him? She did nothing wrong and you saying that she is as bad as him is really all pointless. And what if it was your family that was being the predator? Wouldn't you feel obligated to say things like this? Yeah, you would.

JUSTICE

Congratulations to the Plainfield Police Department for getting another sick *%&%& out of Plainfield!

@All of you: None of this is true. Jason is in a relationship with my best friend and all of this is a freaking LIE! There has not been a single moment when those two are neither with each other, or talking on the phone. He is being falsely accused by some ignorant bastard! Anytime Jason was with the "supposed" child, he was NEVER alone. This is just absolute crap that those A**holes are doing this to him, he did nothing wrong!

@Kryazn....Not only did he admit to this crime, he confessed to another one that the police didn't even know about and are now investigating. Sounds like your sister needs to find a new boyfriend unless she wants to hang out for 30 years for him to get out of prison...which is EXACTLY where he should be.

For those of you that do not know the entire story, and the circumstances around the entire allegation you need to let the courts decide his guilt or innocence..For those of you who have already found him guilty, who are you to judge? Yes this is a very serious accusation, but as a friend of the Minger Family I would hope out of respect for them you would all refrain from the comments and hateful SLANDEROUS Remarks...Get the facts, people are falsely accused of crimes every day!! What you all do not understand is that you, your parents, siblings, friends or even someone that is just an acquaintance can be accused and everyone in the world automatically assumes that because a child says this happened it has to be fact..I feel sorry not only for the child but for Jason as well, either way they are both going to be victims and will be emotionally wrecked in this whole matter. You have a child under the age of 13 that now will need counselling to find out if this is just an attempt to get attention or if in fact something did occur. You have a young man just turned 18, graduated from High School that is now fighting for his life and freedom...Not only could he be facing prison time but under the new laws he will forever have to register as a sex offender if convicted...Have a little sympathy, be respectful to those who know and love both boys and stop with your opinions and hateful remarks PLEASE!!!!

@Kristine & Zaney...Like I said before you do not know this to be fact, you can not believe everything your see or hear in the news, give it a rest!!!!

HE ISN'T BEING ACCUSED OF ANYTHING....HE ADMITTED IT!!

I will rest when he is in prison.

@ Zaney....Like I said you should not believe everything that is in this article...I will not go into details, but this is not known FACTS!!

I agree with you @Cheryl Platt. And to all of the people who immediately found him guilty. What would you do if it WAS YOUR family being accused of such a crime? You wouldn't all hop right to the fact that the accused is guilty and be a sick person. You would most likely defend that they were innocent. So lay off of all of the remarks and hateful words. Because if it was your family in this accusation, you would be just as upset as we are.

Thanks for your support on this matter Paul!! Both families and friends of these families are hurting and are all confused, concerned and are trying to be supportive of these children...we DO NOT need the Judgments or Opinions of those whom are not involved or do not have all the facts running off at the mouth and saying such awful and hurt full things to their families, girlfriends, or friends!! So I agree keep your hateful, malicious, ignorant, down right mean comments to yourself and let the judicial system do what is necessary to figure this whole sorted mess out!!

U go Cheryl.!

Cheryl, Cheryl, Cheryl!! Lol my chants are awesome.

@Cheryl.....to my knowledge, when people are investigated for crimes - any crime - they do not let "insiders" in the interrogation room. You have NO IDEA what happened inside of that room. The only people that do know are the investigators and the person getting investigated but I HIGHLY doubt that Joliet Police Cmdr. Brian Benton lied in his statement to the press stating Jason "admitted to the sexual assault of not only this victim but one other victim." So, if you don't want the "judgments or opionios of those not involved"....stay off of here because I am almost 100% positive from reading your statements you "do not have all the facts". So, when he is convicted and goes off to prison, I hope you stand up, come back to the patch article when they report about it and apologize to the innocent children whose lives will never be the same because of his actions.

@kristine. I don't know if anything in this case is obvious based on the varying responses to the two sides of this story that seemed to have formed in the comments area. I personally have no feelings regarding his guilt or innocence or the state of his mental heath. I do however have an opinion about what will happen to him moving forward and if he ends up serving even say half of the sentence he could possibly receive if convicted of a Class X felony. Prison does not rehabilitate except in the rarest of cases in my opinion. It takes the bad and makes them worse and sadly in some cases it takes the innocent and makes them bitter and evil. My point is not so much to whether he is guilty or not, or even whether prison is good or bad, or deserved. I am/was simply commenting on what prison does to a person and some of what goes on in there or as you phrased it, what the future holds for him. I do have a comment I'd like to add though. Lets say for arguments sake he is found innocent of these charges. Will his story be published and publicized with equal voracity? Will we all care enough to comment and discuss what this has done to him and what his future holds in those circumstances. Me personally I kind of doubt it. I had that conversation with Karen a few months back and am pleased to see the guilty or innocent blurb at the bottom of the article. I just wonder how much good it does and how many people noticed it.

Now he can't damage anyone else

This guy is my friend. He's still a good person. However, what he did was wrong. Doesn't make him any less of a person.

hopefully he gets sanduskyed in prison that might change him and his sick twisted mind

@Cheryl......you are obviously in favor of child rape. If you know the Minger family than you know that this is not the first time Jason was arrested for sexually assualting a child. Also if you know the family, you should know there is another Minger who grew up in that house who was also arrested for sexually assualting a child (For those of you who don't know the family, go to the Illinois Sex Offender website and type in the name Christopher Minger). Don't give us the "he is a good person" crap. Good people don't abuse child. And good people don't go around defending child predators.

@ Child rape hater....well obviously you do not know me, and where in my earlier statements did I ever say that I was in favor of child rape?Jason was not charged with sexually assaulting a child...it was a completely different charge..he has paid for that mistake...and if he was convicted of child sexual assault he as well as his brother would have to register as a sex offender..As far as his brothers conviction it had to do with child pornography, not with child sexual assault...Getting our facts straight is what this is all about and I feel that we all need to let the judicial system do what it is there to do to protect the victims as well as the innocent, and to prosecute those that are guilty...Nothing has been proven either way and what do I have to apologize for I stated I feel sorry for the young individuals that are having to go through this awful mess, both lives have been torn apart, both lives need much repair. The families, girlfriends, as well as friends of the families do not need to be subject to all this malicious, hateful banter...They are not the accused!!

This story is not about you Cheryl Platt....it is about the CHILDREN who were victims!!

He was a good guy. We use to hang out and he never acted like this! But seriously if you don't know him don't judge he made a mistake no reason to end his entire life! Like wtf!! I feel you tyler and stephanie I'm going to miss you guys

Yall need to be respectful and keep yer comments to yerself. Dont be jumping all over cheryl for stating her opinion on the matter, she has every right to say what she feels necessary without being rudely attacked by little childish punks who know nothing of the situation. How about yall stay out of things that have nothing to do with you and get on with life. K? Bye.

Aj what's road house????

WE GOT HIM!!!!!!!!!!!

Judge not lest ye be judged, let the court and 12 jurists decide if he is guilty or not guilty and as far as what happens after he is convicted there is a sex offender law regarding repeat offenders, they are court mandated to a treatment facility in rushville illinois for treatment before a release

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he needs to rot in jail for this

Its fine if he deserved it if he actually did it, but calling him names and saying he needs to rot in jail is just plain ignorant when you dont even know him. Hes still 18...you really expect him to be perfect?? He excels in a lot of things. I may have known him very long but that i Did see.

not known him*

I would be very worried if this Liz has kids and thinks that it is ok for a person to abuse kids just because he is still only 18! If he was Drinking, Drugs maybe we can understand he's not perfect but this is a KID he was abusing UNDER 13yrs OLD!! Usually if he does it 18 he will do it at 48! Please don't have Kids Liz if this is your thinking because they will eventually be taken from you! This is the Bottom of the Barrel crime!

good kids dont sexually abuse kids, especially under 13 years old PERIOD. He was a good kid from what you saw, but what you didnt see makes him a bad kid. A lot of creeps seems good or normal on the surface. And yes it is true i dont know the full story. what i do know is that sexually abusing someone at all is messed up and doing it to someone so young is exponentially worse.

I've dated him when I was freshman and he was sophomore he's great guy telling you the truth after we broke up he been hang around with different kind of crowd
Seriously people telling that he should rot in jail won't help..
We seriously don't know what's really going on here... You need both sides of the stories in order find out the truth

@Lari.....only one side of the story is known....the one he confessed to. Unfortunately the only people that will here the other side of the TWO stories will be the victims therapists.

@Kelli...Hopefully the authorities are investigating knowing their is a minor child still living in the home.

I'm not trying to stifle discussion, but I removed a post containing the name of a minor child. Let's try to keep the conversation on topic as it relates to this story, please.

This man is not innocent!!! It's my family member he did this to and it took a lot of courage for the victim to finally say something. Because of this another innocent victim will be saved from this torture.
I really hope the justice system is able to get this man the help he needs. From reading previous posts, it sounds like this man's entire family needs help. Although I am angry at what happened, I can't help but feel sorry for this man. I have no doubt that he must have been a victim as a child and he never had the courage to tell someone and so the cycle continued. Thank God my family member had the courage to tell someone!!!

Lmao @ all you people on here tryin to stick up for this kid. Sayin he did nothing wrong and he's innocent?? Yeah.. That's why he admitted to raping 2 people. He will forever be a pedifile and a rapist. Nothing less. He gets what he deserves. To rott in prison.

To those of you trying to defend this A-hole!
Key words: younger than 13, multiple occasions!
enough said!

He forfeitted his rights as a human being when he committed the heinous acts. Get a rope!

Here is my post again. I am assuming mine was related to the name of that minor child, but find it interesting as all their names are known and mentioned in several posts/articles. I think you are trying to stifle what the community knows, although not maliciously or intentionally. But hey, I will try again. @Kelli: I do hope *** both gets removed and therapy. I am sorry for what happened to you. This Cheryl person is insanely naive. In addition, I know Chris has in fact rapped other girls. I also know that they have not spoken up or only had restraining orders placed against him. Sadly, until they are BOTH jailed and caught this will be allowed to continue. The insinuation that the parents may have raped them is sick and while I do not know that to be true, I hope it is investigated. I hope the PPD will do thorough research on what these two "men" did to their classmates. This is serious and many have suffered. Time for dozens of sensitive interviews.

These comments do relate even though they are about both brothers...someone needs to start uncovering the truth. I don't want to interfere with anything, but I know victims that have never come forward and it will continue to happen unless something is done. SAVEOURKIDS.

@t-bone i was 14 in the time i anit too old...
he was 16!!! & i was the one who broke up with him

Well Lari I was half right! You were over 13 yrs old and he obviously likes younger! Glad you got away when you could!

LOL. All of you are dumb that are trying to come at me. As long as the 'victim' is under 18 and the 'molester' is 18 or over its gonna be considered molestation. Nothing is fully proven yet, so until then stop being so ignorant. I consider all of you dumb and guliable then for not knowing your facts and believe what the MEDIA tells you.. Weak.

Fat Science, I know the two innocent children! I think this is a great open discussion. Everyone please note, If he was molested(The Accused) . You grow up being molested you just might molest someone. Product of your Environment. I pray that my friends Boys become great Men...

I know the Two boys! I hope and pray These boys get some peace, no kid should have to worry about a friend of the family or Stranger Molesting them! All things done In the Dark come to Light. Open discussion is good! Now just think if this was your child..

he needs to accept the consequences of his actions. He knew what he was doing and didnt do anything to stop it, he made his decisions and this is where they got him.

Bad karma- the weird thing I'd they told me they knew it was wrong but thout it ok because someone did to them. Idk this is a messed up world...may god save us