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.
Yeah he did, don’t get me wrong this guy should go to jail. But imagine for a second he (or anyone else for that matter) was not actually guilty, and got convicted on a technicality or a judiciary error.
You would mutilate or kill someone and then absolve them of the crime if ever found out they were innocent, oh no you can’t, because what happened is utterly irreversible. I mean, it’s not like it ever happened before right?
Ok, but by that argument, jail is irreversible too. All the damage it does to work and social evironment.
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.
There is no imagine “he” was innocent. There becomes a point where evidence is overwhelming and WITHOUT a doubt. I can tell you right now, IF this guy raped you/your wife/your child, you wouldn’t feel sorry for him. Would you be ok with a PROVEN rapist living next door to you? If you rape someone, you know what you’re doing is wrong, you did it anyways. This says “I can’t control myself”, that individual is not ever going to fit in to society. I can’t fathom how anyone can say they can. It’s not like you got mad and got into a fist fight with someone and accidentally killed someone. This dude was RAPING A 14 year old. She will suffer the rest of her life for this.
The castration part everyone is getting upset over isn’t even real. He gets it a week before he’s released… At well over 100 years old. He’s not going to care since he’ll be dead and on the miraculous chance he’s not, he won’t know or care.
The exercise of law shouldn’t involve emotion, there is a reason why mob justice shouldn’t be a thing.
Of course I would be upset and want the guy dead, mutilated or whatever if it involved someone close to me.
But that’s the thing, dude’s a monster, he should go to jail, and get psychiatric help and be rehabilitated to the best of his capability. If he’s never safe enough to be a free man ever again that’s fine, but in no way he should be killed or mutilated by the state.
But the point isn’t about him specifically, if he gets such a sentence, it sets a precedent that a sentence like this is acceptable for a given crime. And that’s unacceptable on many levels, a state should never have the power to kill or mutilate a person, for any reason, ever.
But it is the state deciding to sentence someone to it. We’re mad at that. We’re angry they feel comfortable doing so
We aren’t talking about him specifically. We are talking about every single person who is charged with this crime ever, at least one of which will be innocent.