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.
So, let’s say a man is accused of rape and impregnates a woman. DNA matches, everything matches. However, after the castration happens, the woman comes out and says it was actually consensual and not a rape, just her being petty over a disagreement or something. What then?
No consent at the age of 14
What? I didn’t specify she was 14?
But the victim in this case was 14. So unless your theoretical victim is also a child, you’re making a false equivalence in your argument.
The woman isn’t 14 in my question I guess? I didn’t realize she had to be. I saw people for and against castration here, so I wanted to ask what would happen if a man got castrated for a lie or something that actually wasn’t rape. What’s the stance here? If it’s a minor, castration is OK, but if it’s between adults it’s not ok? Why would the age matter in my question?
Because a child can’t give consent. So if, like you say, all the physical evidence creates an undisputed conclusion that the event happened, then there is no longer any doubt whether there would be a change of mind as it didn’t matter.
Ah, ok. Yeah, I wasn’t talking about if she were 14. I was more curious on how this stance would play out with 2 adults.
Yeah, but what about his hypothetical?
He didn’t say he was specifically talking about this case, and even clarified when you guys assumed he was.
How old is
your victimthe hypothetical victim then?