After reviewing 67 year-old rapist Jack Covert’s appeal of his minimum 52.5 year sentence imposed by a Luzerne County court last January after multiple convictions on violent sexual offenses committed since the 1990s – some of them against children – with Covert arguing that he should be entitled to a “discount” from the effective life sentence on the basis of his advanced age and health condition, the Pennsylvania Superior Court on Monday issued ruled that senior discounts aren’t actually a thing in the Keystone State’s justice system, the Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader reports.

The decision upholds a tradition of affording trial judges’ discretion in sentencing as finders of fact and neutral accountants of debts to society as well as affirming the contrast of that sacred responsibility with servers at establishments such as Denny’s, Bob Evans, and Perkins, who are required to apply senior discounts to dining checks without question if a guest has provided sufficient proof of that they qualify for the abatement. It’s quite possible that Covert’s experience consuming items on the Denny’s 55+ menu informed his misconception of its universality.

“After review of the record, we determined that the court did not abuse its discretion. The court’s imposition of an aggregate sentence of 52 and one-half years to 112 years’ imprisonment is not grossly disparate” to Covert’s decades of sexual abuse against multiple child victims, nor does it viscerally appear as patently unreasonable….The court properly determined that a lengthy term of imprisonment was essential to vindicate the devastating impact Covert’s crimes had on the victims’ lives as well as to protect the public from Covert,” the three judge panel wrote in the ruling.