Nobody forced him to break the law in the first place.
Exactly, he knew what risks he was taking when he decided to pull and organize all the stunts LulzSec put together. Should others suffer because of his choice? No. He should have been a man and accepted the fact that he did the crime and was caught, so he should suffer. Instead, he compromised dozens of others in his quest for personal relief. Justify it any way you want, he still screwed over others to protect himself. He is a selfish idiot that should have never risked his family in the first place to get Lulz, but he did, that is HIS bad. It was dumb of the rest of Anon to trust him as well, but they did not choose to betray him, it's the other way around.
Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde