Posted on 05/03/2005 11:23:46 AM PDT by Dubya
Larry Don McQuay, a child molester whose requests to be castrated prompted the Legislature to make Texas the only state to permit the practice, was released from prison with little fanfare this morning and escorted to San Antonio. It's unknown whether he's been castrated.
Fitted with an ankle monitoring device, McQuay was transferred at 7:15 a.m. to a work release program in Bexar County, where he was convicted, said Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons. McQuay will remain under mandatory supervision until July 31, 2016.
She said prison officials arranged for a two-vehicle caravan to transport the high-profile offender "for his safety.'' McQuay left prison eight years into a 20-year sentence because his time served and "good behavior" met state requirements for release under mandatory supervision, said Mike Viesca of the Department of Criminal Justice.
In 1995, McQuay told Houston-based victims rights group Justice For All that he would kill his next victim if he wasn't castrated, group president Dianne Clements said. At the time, the group entered into a contract with McQuay to find a surgeon willing to perform the operation.
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he'll be sweet as a kitty-cat now.
Castration is actually the most humane solution to the intractible recidivist sexual predetor of young children. He can be released, and society will be safe.
I was just checking the sex offender site in the county where my parents live since my kids like to visit with their grandparents. There are several offenders that live within a couple of blocks of my parents and a few near the area elementary school. I called the city police to see why so many offenders are moving into that particular area, since there are so many kids around. The officer that answered the phone (who was rude to me) told me that the offenders were well within their rights to live there.
Who do I call now?
That's not obvious to me, particularly if the problem is with the guy's mind and not his gonads. He could still shot, stab, or blow up all the kids he could get his hands on.
I'll kick in $5.
"Who do I call now?"
A real estate agent.
I've done the same thing and have yet to find a zip code where there isn't some sort of sex offender listed! Not all "sex offenders" have hurt children--still trying to figure out what all the definitions mean.
...here pedophiles are listed under "sexual abuse of children" and don't ya know there is one little town that has nothing but a baseball park and there is a pedophile listed for that town....sigh.
Talk to your kids.
You forgot your sarcasm tag...right?
Rape, including pedophilia, is about power. He isn't safe to be around. He just lacks his weapon of choice.
I sent emails to the big newspaper and one of the tv stations. I'm not stopping, either.
"Nobody. They are within their rights to live anywhere they please"
Wow. Whose side are you on?
It's REALLY pathetic that the first law of this kind, which has been urgently needed for decades, if not centuries, was passed only at the insistence of a child molestor.
And no, castration won't work for all of them. But it opens the door to employing whatever approach is needed to get the job done. For those who are not cured by castration, frontal lobotomy will certainly do the trick. Can we please not wait for a child molestor to get that law passed (and to get the castration law passed in the other 49 states and DC)?
This is an unusual number of offenders. I've checked lots of zip codes and haven't found many with this number of offenders listed. And the site has a grading level of "likely to reoffend." Most are listed as a "moderate" risk but there are a couple listed as "high risk." At the very least, a high risk offender should not be living anywhere near children.
Not if some idiot doctor give him a prescription for testosterone.
A hit man?
Castration has been used in Denmark and Germany and can reduce recidivism from 80% to less than 3%. Castrated men do not have the testosterone to drive the brain to think about sex or act upon sexual urges.
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