FROM DAILY MAIL: A serial pedophile has agreed to be castrated as part of a plea deal after he was caught trying to sexually assault a seven-year-old girl.
Thomas Allen McCartney, 37, is classified a ‘Tier Three’ offender and is considered one of Louisiana’s worst child predators.
McCartney has agreed to be both physically and chemically castrated as part of plea deal Tuesday in order to reduce his prison sentence – although he’ll still spend 40 years in prison, according to local station Fox 12.
The option was presented to the Leesville resident after a mother caught him sexually abusing her daughter in February 2023, reported KPLC-TV.
Louisiana has allowed chemical castration as a punishment for certain sex crimes since 2008, but the law allowing surgical castration just went into effect at the beginning of August. It is the first and only state to give surgical castration as an option in punishment for sex crimes.
The law allows Louisiana judges to offer the procedure when presented with certain cases of sex abuse. If offenders refuse the procedure, they are given an additional three to five years in jail.
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