Castrated Calif. Molester Seeks Freedom

AP ^ | 7/3/6

[SmithL]

Santa Ana -- A convicted child molester who got surgically castrated to curb his urges wants to be released from custody. Kevin Reilly won a court order and paid to have his testicles removed in 2003.

"He felt that this was the only way to stop his cravings and immoral conduct," said his attorney, Orange County Deputy Public Defender Dinah Granafei.

Reilly says he has completed a sex-offender treatment program, undergone castration and is no longer a threat to children. He wants to be freed from Atascadero Mental Hospital, where he has been locked up since 2000 when the Orange County District Attorney's Office filed a petition labeling him a Sexually Violent Predator.

[TommyDale]

There's a joke here, but I think I'll pass.

[mtbopfuyn]

"Just because they have been castrated doesn't change what's going on in their minds," he said.

Bingo!

[evets]

Have the testicles been placed in a lockbox?

[Gordongekko909]

The only way I'll say yes is if his arms, *ahem*, tongue, and toes have been cut off. He's no more danger after that, as far as I am willing to think.

[LdSentinal]

Lesson learned.

Don't read this article after you just had your lunch.

[KarinG1]

This isn't rehab, it's punishment. I think he should stay in prison until hell freezes over. Please pardon the strong language. I don't usually talk that way, but I'm not usually talking about convicted child molesters.

[b4its2late]

who got surgically castrated

Yeeowsa! That hada smart... (though in this case it was well deserved.)

[domenad]

Atascadero? Hey! That's where Herb Sewell, Randall Toomey, and Walter Bellhaven are being treated! Wow, small world.

[American Quilter]

I think he should stay in prison until hell freezes over.

I agree. I believe no child molester should ever be released from prison.

[goldstategop]

Ooh... he's kidding, right? Explain to me again why we should want a child molester, even a neutered one, back out on the streets.

(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)

[paul51]

Reilly says he has completed a sex-offender treatment program, undergone castration and is no longer a threat to children

Oh yeah? Let him come and live next to you then. Guy sounds crazy to me.

[Dark Skies]

I certainly agree that he should stay in prison, but I think castration is a great idea for molesters as part of the punishment.

[tflabo]

Clipping the cajones off these pedophile monsters is just phase A. As a matter of fact they get no chance of parole without the castration. Must serve out the prison sentence anyway irregardless.

[mad puppy]

"Reilly has been sentenced to 14 years in prison since 1983 in three separate child molestation cases."

Wow. 14 years for 3 kids. This guy should have NEVER been allowed out in the first place. There is now way in h3!! he should get out now, I don't care what they cut off this guy.

[RedStateRocker]

There is no such thing as 'rehab'.

[showme_the_Glory]

Decapitation, for when castration just doesn't go quite far enough.

[freedumb2003]

It is becoming clearer and clearer that Pedophelia is a "mental disease" that cannot be "cured." It is a brain abberation that, once given in to, can never be re-caged.

Sexual stimulation doesn't come from the gonads -- it comes from the brain. The only way to stop a pedophile from molesting is to cut off his brain.

[RichInOC]

"Gimme back my bullets,
"Put em back where they belong...
"Ain't foolin around cause I done had my fun,
"Ain't gonna see no more damage done--
"Gimme back, gimme back my bullets!
"Oh, put em back... where they belong."

--Lynyrd Skynyrd

[Bigg Red]

I think he should stay in prison until hell freezes over.
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I agree. I believe no child molester should ever be released from prison.

**

I vote for capital punishment.