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.

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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    7 months ago

    Ok, but by that argument, jail is irreversible too. All the damage it does to work and social evironment.

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      7 months ago

      You can get out of jail, you cannot grow your balls back or be not dead. Jail damages society because of the way it’s implemented, that’s a political choice, but that’s another argument.

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      7 months ago

      Yeah, I agree with that too. There’s a reason they call it “con college”. Nobody wants to hire an ex-con, so a lot of people commit further crimes. And when you are in jail or prison, it’s pretty hard to take care of everyday stuff like your house, car, finances, etc., so who knows what state they’ll be in, or even if they’ll still be there.