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Louisiana man sentenced to 50 years in prison, physical castration for raping teen (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A Louisiana man has been sentenced to decades in prison and physical castration after pleading guilty to raping a teenager, according to a news release from the region's district attorney.

Glenn Sullivan Sr., 54, pled guilty to four counts of second-degree rape on April 17. Authorities began investigating Sullivan in July 2022, when a young woman told the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office that Sullivan had assaulted her multiple times when she was 14. The assaults resulted in pregnancy, and a DNA test confirmed that Sullivan was the father of the child, the district attorney's office said. Sullivan had also groomed the victim and threatened her and her family to prevent her from coming forward.

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A 2008 Louisiana law says that men convicted of certain rape offenses may be sentenced to chemical castration. They can also elect to be physically castrated. Perrilloux said that Sullivan's plea requires he be physically castrated. The process will be carried out by the state's Department of Corrections, according to the law, but cannot be conducted more than a week before a person's prison sentence ends. This means Sullivan wouldn't be castrated until a week before the end of his 50-year sentence — when he would be more than 100 years old.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

physical castration is removing his ~~dick~~balls.

chemical castration ... is basically using medication to block hormones that cause sex drives. (edit for technical accuracy as was pointed out below. Either way they're taking medically-approved bolt cutters to his junk. and that's never right at any age.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

chemical castration … is basically using medication to block hormones that cause sex drives.

The fun part is that it doesn't even do that. You can block all of your testosterone (as an XY male), and still desire sex, have erections, and achieve orgasms. It's difficult, but still possible. And unless they're going to do blood panels every month, it's pretty easy to get around that shit, if you have the money for the black market drugs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

At 100 years old?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Not defending or saying it's right. It's far from it.

but that's what they mean by physical and chemical castration

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They're not removing the dick they're removing the testicle.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Apparently castration means a few things. In China the eunuchs were castrated and they typically had both penis and testicles removed.
Just learned that yesterday and kinda wish I didn't.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I hear you, thanks I didn’t even realize that could be an actual punishment , especially in a state like Louisiana that doesn’t allow abortion in cases of rape

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

At 5gat age just smack them with a baton and they will crumble into dust